Trophy fish size is 10 inches. Mine was 9 3/4 inches!

Still by far the biggest I ever caught!

I bet that was exciting. I can remember catching one when I was younger that was about 8 1/2" long. It's always fun to catch a large bluegill like that I think.

i love bluegill fishing. biggest bluegill i ever caught...well actually was shellcracker...was over a foot long. got a pic of it on my myspace page. it weighed almost 2lbs.

nothing beats a big string of bluegill though!

I caught this out of an old pond on our property. It was dug ages ago to water cattle. I have fished it VERY briefly in years past without a bite. About 30 % of it is covered in cattails. It does not really have any streams that empty into it and gets quite low and warm in the summer. I figured it was to shallow to have any fish life in it due to the summer heat. I decided to give it a try again yesterday. I just used my crappie pole and redworms. In 20 minutes I had caught the big fish I mentioned above, 3 bluegill about the size of my hand, one Rock bass about the size of my hand, as well as 3 baby blue gill and 3 baby rock bass. I obviously have not paid it as close attention as I needed to all these years. It obviously has a deep spot somewhere because they would have cooked last summer. And they have ovviously been alive for several years due to all the various sizes I caught. There is also obviously food available to the fish. It is covered about 25 to 30% in cattails. There is only one are where you can get to the water and fish. I guess I will clear out about half the cattails and other trees and briers around the bank and see what potential this thing has. It would be real nice to have a place to fish on MY property.

sounds like an awesome pond you got trx. i wish our ponds had some cattails in them. weve got a few ponds up at our barn stocked with bluegill, catfish, bass, and crappie. never do get bored in the summertime...i could sit and catch fish there all day.

heres that big shellcracker i caught.

Thats an awesome fish BCO! The one I caught was FAT and FOE! ( Full of eggs! ) LOL