These are extremely special fish! There are not many places left that you can catch TRUE 1lb gills anymore!!! Thank you for stressing the fact you need to put these BACK!
Bass Brawl Outdoors just keep teaching people what the truth is about taking the bigs out only makes the population smaller till all that’s left are disgusting stunted ugly 4-6in fish
You know some people can't stand to see positive people doing good things, so they have to be negative because they have nothing better to do but criticize and put down good people who are doing better than them!!
Look, it is not going to decimate the population if you keep some of these larger fish. DO NOT FISH A BEDDING COLONY OUT! That will do harm. I learned from men who knew way more about this subject than 98% of us today.
Nobody's angry. Guys like this one do us a favor. All the fish he threw back will be there when we go fishing. But he needs to tell us where the hell he's fishing.
Don't need no electronics , when I was living in Arizona , I had a special spot that I fished for bluegill and crappie on saguaro lake ! This spring I just need to find my special spot again , but I'm in Missouri now !
I love bluegill for their fight, their taste, their beauty, their ability to get big fish when you use the smaller ones as bait. Its a treat. I wish I could eat more bluegill but my lakes don't stalk them so I only have two of them a year, and they have to be kind of big, like the ones you caught. cause I have no idea how many there are, and if I knew I'd just keep a bunch of smaller ones and deep fry them whole if the waters well populated with them.
These are some absolutely beautiful Bluegills. I would love to catch some like that. I'm on Long Island NY, we only have tiny little lakes here. They don't go so big round here sadly...............
love fishing for smaller fish, crappie, bluegills etc. I prefer to use a smaller rod for a better fight, 2-6lb test on a 4-5' light weight rod is a lot of fun. if you happen to land a bigger bass or trout they put up a great fight.
I wouldn't even use that . A medium roostertail crayfish color or a meps plastic minnow crankbait . Nice fish love your channel corkfly white red eyes is fun with a fly rod ..
Me to That's why people threw out time fished ! now you have all these stupid assholes who watch to much television shows and think there sportsman. Like the guys making those shows, but there duping them for money so they don't give a shit.
WOW! I've caught a many a bluegill in my day, And the ones that came anywhere near the size of these I could easy count on one hand and not even use all the fingers! I would had to took couple --3 home at least they make good eating.....
Ineluctable Smith - exactly... drives me nuts when people limit out every time they go. That turns into a lot of freezer burnt fish getting thrown out a year later.
reel custom, they would not have a chance of getting freezer burnt in my home, ... & they are to plentiful, there are no regulations on them in any state I ever heard of, ...
Out at Lake Henderson in Louisiana they have no limit but they have some people that goes out there and try to see how many they can catch and keep just because they can I only keep what I can eat after watching this video i will be trowing back the larger ones THANKS
I'm glad you want to throw the bigger ones back. Such a simple thing to do if you are catching a bunch of average size fish and have enough for a meal and don't need to keep the big ones.
Another quality video…and the best part is the catch and release……nothing better than returning to a spot and catch giant fish time and time again… and that's all due to catch and release
Big Dark Bluegills will come completely out of the water and down on them. Only keep what you’re going to eat and release all others. They will be back next year.
I’ve always been a bank fisherman for simplicity but now I’ve realized the boat is where the real fishing comes into play you can constantly move to knew areas and also use fish finders etc
nice ones i just rent a boat sometimes so finding them is a lot harder. and also in spring here the water goes up and down so one day the fishing is on fire then water drop and then it sux. nice vid though.
The pound plus gills will have more Hg and other pollutants in their meat. Definitely fierce bluegills. Caught one last week that snapped my pole as I flipped it up towards me while standing on a dock. Smaller is better too. I eat 6 5 and thick in stunted pond and up to 8. 9.25 and up go back.
Don't ever tell anyone where this spot is...based on the people that said they would put these on their dinner plate...all these fish would be gone...Thanks for releasing them
My local lakes have been destroyed over the last 20 years from people like that. Where I am at Ice fisherman are the worst. They get onto more of the bigger fish and keep 5 gallon pales full. I want the state to massively cut bag limits and put slot limits 6-9 inches.
Amazing! I did not know that those bluegills came in that size. Would you have as much success fly fishing them with a sink line? So if Understand it to catch gills of that size you hardly need anything, just a boat a hummingbird 360 gps system. A special license to have access to that lake. An airplane ticket and a hotel room. An amazingly accessible activity! I will stick to my small bluegills at 10 minutes from home. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And imagine that my grandpa used to slay the big bream with a cane pole and crickets. He skulled the boat along with an old oar and had zero electronics onboard!
I've always believed in leaving spawning fish alone. My family owns a lake in WI and wanted to preserve as much of the population of fish for sport or the table. In the 1960's and later we learned to lower the population of fish by keeping the smaller fish, and throwing back the big ones. As time went on, the overall fish growth became stunted due to our inability to control the population size. So we stocked predators such as bass, walleyes, and pike, and that did the trick. But I can't get over the guilt that I feel when fishing the spawning beds; it makes it too easy to find and catch the fish. I'm not criticizing anyone else, I'm simply the goofball who can't let go of the old views instilled into me by my Dad and GrandDad. We believe in giving the fish a sporting chance. This is not a political rant 'cause I hate and distrust politicians! I'm just a Midwestern raised jack pine savage. Nice fish and nice video!
Bill Sutherland you make some great points. I’ll still stand by my beliefs that letting those fish go right back to their beds is doing WAY less harm then putting that fish in a bucket and putting a fillet knife through its side. The big males are the most important fish in the lake regarding bluegills. Is it any better to fish the week before the spawn and catch the fish? Or ice fishing and taking them home? Catch and release like shown in this video is not doing any harm to the fish or the lake.
As a fellow 'Sconni I know what you mean, but a balance is needed between predator (Pike, Walleye, us) and prey (anything that can be eaten). Quickly releasing fish just of the bed is not harmful, they will quickly find their way back to the nest to guard the eggs. And keep in mind that not every nest will be found, but it is very possible to fish out good genetics.
I am jealous, I have to drive for miles here in Colorado to find gills half that size. I believe in conservation too but I would be keeping a few for the corn meal and grease.
Dale Simons the good thing is that you catch a bunch of smaller ones here too and those are the better option for taking home to eat. The giant males are the key to keeping the lake healthy. We don’t have many lakes that pump out the size of these and it’s gone downhill since I recorded this video.
Your accent sounds Canadian. Are you Canadian? If so, are those bluegills caught in Canada or the upper US states where the accent can be similar sometimes?
Western Minnesota, about 2 hours from the Canadian border so you are close! They were all caught on public waters near me, but the pressure has finally taken its toll. Luckily there are other lakes in the area that are putting out large fish.
Bass Brawl Outdoors , I live along the gulf coast in Texas , one of my favorite eating fish are flounder, I’m still and old school fisherman, I haven’t went high tech on the electronics, but I remember eating some bluegills many years ago in north Alabama fishing with crickets along a bluff wall in smith lake, I haven’t eaten any since, but I remember how good they tasted in that cast iron skillet 🤗
Beautiful Gills; best vid of this type on RUclips, too. Great tutorial and agree with your C&R for gills that size. If you can say, at what lake in which state were you? Thanks, Don Jeff City, MO
Good video but if it's a big enough lake you want stunt the bluegills or shellcrackers growth they can both be a pound or better in a year they are big enough to reproduce at 3-4 months they grow very quickly what lake is this??
I like using little Berkley power baits that I can just keep the jar in the boat and always have something that will work when I see big sunfish to catch. If I'm going trophy hunting and they won't bite, then I'll use a leech or crawler. A full crawler they will nail the head and it gets those big ones to come unglued and attack it.
An angler practicing conservation of a resource cool to see it in action. Remember the Passenger Pigeon, Great Auk, Steller's Sea Cow, & the Dodo Bird could've benefited from conservation. The trolling motor & depth finder had reasonable features.
Based on the size of the gills and no other boat traffic I'm pretty sure for the sake of making this video you fished on a private lake or some restricted body of water. Nice gills!!
They look like coppernose bluegills, you can stock your pond with them for largemouth bass forage but they grow so radidly that they will soon not be usable by bass. If you don't harvest them....forget about growing bass.
Is this a private lake? I've never caught Bluegills that big in a river or public lake... I did catch some that size and a little bigger at a golf course lake one year in South Alabama... It was all catch and release...
Z71Ranger I seen a video by this other guy he was fishing a lake managed lake somewhere Central America but he was pulling average 10 inch bluegill they where monsters
If you are fishing a golf course pond you would always refrain from keeping fish for consumption. This is due to the fact that the over fertilization of the golf course has polluted the water you will be fishing. I catch many bass at a family member's meandering stream that courses around a golf course where they live. Always catch and release generally because you would not wish to eat those fish due to contaminants secondary to fertilization.
Andrew Patrick If you are worried about the fertilizers used on the golf course, you better not buy a single meat sold in stores. That shits pumped with drugs and chemicals.
These are extremely special fish! There are not many places left that you can catch TRUE 1lb gills anymore!!! Thank you for stressing the fact you need to put these BACK!
DWS Outdoors thanks for the feedback. Hopefully they can hold strong and not get wiped out.
Bass Brawl Outdoors just keep teaching people what the truth is about taking the bigs out only makes the population smaller till all that’s left are disgusting stunted ugly 4-6in fish
Eat’em!!!!!!
@@MauriceFord-q8i Release ... to the Grease !!
Bluegills are absolutely beautiful fish. They also are some of the best fighting fish for their size in the world.
Andrew Patrick I love when they spiral as they fight!
truth. I cannot wait for summer
Andrew Patrick Agreed in full!👍
If they weighed up to 5lbs, No one would fish for bass
@@BassBrawlOutdoors you sir are the Roland Martin of bluegills
For those with the angry negative comments please go to another channel that deals with politics. This guy is doing no harm.
Awwww! Why's dat? Because him has no baws and scared him will git hims feelwins hurt? Awwwwww!😢😢😢😢
You know some people can't stand to see positive people doing good things, so they have to be negative because they have nothing better to do but criticize and put down good people who are doing better than them!!
Look, it is not going to decimate the population if you keep some of these larger fish. DO NOT FISH A BEDDING COLONY OUT! That will do harm. I learned from men who knew way more about this subject than 98% of us today.
@@michaelrenne1802 poor spelling, even for a baby talk joke.
Nobody's angry. Guys like this one do us a favor. All the fish he threw back will be there when we go fishing. But he needs to tell us where the hell he's fishing.
Nothing beats seeing that honeycomb of nests. I've been fishing my whole life and it still takes the cake as the most exciting thing to see
Thanks for talking about the reasons for releasing the larger gills.
Gills are fun to catch....massive ones too....nicely done.
Thanks 👍
It's amazing to see the Bluegill caught just with the rooster tail spinner . Thank you for your sharing!
Catching bluegills the size of frying pans. Loving it! Great video!
😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂yesirrrr
And remember! Go fishing when you can because it's good for ya! #RicharhGeneTheFishingMachine
nice show..nice fishin..i usually watch richard gene the fishing machine..crappie..but...i love to catch gills..great vid
Go Gene!
A wooooooh😁😂😂
The only thing I hate about this video is I am not in that boat helping to catch those big bluegills
Dude those are huge Bluegills!..Omg!.
Don't need no electronics , when I was living in Arizona , I had a special spot that I fished for bluegill and crappie on saguaro lake ! This spring I just need to find my special spot again , but I'm in Missouri now !
I love bluegill for their fight, their taste, their beauty, their ability to get big fish when you use the smaller ones as bait. Its a treat. I wish I could eat more bluegill but my lakes don't stalk them so I only have two of them a year, and they have to be kind of big, like the ones you caught. cause I have no idea how many there are, and if I knew I'd just keep a bunch of smaller ones and deep fry them whole if the waters well populated with them.
I’ve been catching blue gill all my life never that big though. Awesome
I catch big gills like that all the time they really put up a fight especially on light tackle
Glad to see you catch and release those on bed. Especially, the big ones.
I love the way he explianed very easy guide to go after bedding bluegills! Great job guy! Am a subscriber!👍
These are some absolutely beautiful Bluegills. I would love to catch some like that. I'm on Long Island NY, we only have tiny little lakes here. They don't go so big round here sadly...............
A close-up of bobber tie would've been nice, great video thanks!
love fishing for smaller fish, crappie, bluegills etc. I prefer to use a smaller rod for a better fight, 2-6lb test on a 4-5' light weight rod is a lot of fun. if you happen to land a bigger bass or trout they put up a great fight.
Now thats some good fishing & eating! Nice work!🎣
Nice big bluegills 🎣
I wouldn't even use that . A medium roostertail crayfish color or a meps plastic minnow crankbait . Nice fish love your channel corkfly white red eyes is fun with a fly rod ..
Wow nice trophy fish it's my favorite
I believe in catch and release.. into a hot pan of grease
Diego Plante not on the beds post or prespawn or any other time of the year when they aren’t protecting babies
Me to That's why people threw out time fished ! now you have all these stupid assholes who watch to much television shows and think there sportsman. Like the guys making those shows, but there duping them for money so they don't give a shit.
KEEPN EM ALL,,,,,FCK THAT,,,,,,WHAT LAKE YOU IN....🤔LOL
" Catch and grease "
Facts
Great video! Some giant bluegill!Awesome catches and some unique lure choices!👌
Nice gills!
Wow! Either you've got really small hands (yuk, yuk) or those are monsters. What girth!
You know what they say about small hands. That explain why he's such a good fisherman because he has no girlfriend. Just call him stumpy!!😂😂😂😂
WOW! I've caught a many a bluegill in my day, And the ones that came anywhere near the size of these I could easy count on one hand and not even use all the fingers! I would had to took couple --3 home at least they make good eating.....
Man those were massive. Really need to learn to read my lowrance fish finder on those settings
Those are some monster Gils my friend.very nice!
Thank you!
Nice gills Thank you for the tips
Glad you like it!
I'm in Oregon so crappie for me but I remember Kansas and Missouri fishing for gill.
A sinking fly would make that great fun as well. No one would be mad if you took 3 home for supper. I do agree with catch and release most always.
Ineluctable Smith - exactly... drives me nuts when people limit out every time they go. That turns into a lot of freezer burnt fish getting thrown out a year later.
reel custom, they would not have a chance of getting freezer burnt in my home, ... & they are to plentiful, there are no regulations on them in any state I ever heard of, ...
Nice catch!
Thanks!
I like how u teach new bees ! Thank U! Man those are some slabs!!! Nice work. I subed!!
Out at Lake Henderson in Louisiana they have no limit but they have some people that goes out there and try to see how many they can catch and keep just because they can I only keep what I can eat after watching this video i will be trowing back the larger ones THANKS
I'm glad you want to throw the bigger ones back. Such a simple thing to do if you are catching a bunch of average size fish and have enough for a meal and don't need to keep the big ones.
Awe man bro I enjoyed that video
I'm from the south them are some "Hubcaps" as we called them lol
Another quality video…and the best part is the catch and release……nothing better than returning to a spot and catch giant fish time and time again… and that's all due to catch and release
Thanks. Gets frustrating seeing guys take buckets of these big gills home for the table. It's so easy to catch and keep some smaller fish for the pan.
This was a 100% public access lake.
Milton Rust it not gonna hurt to take a few home🐠🐠
Buddy you can throw them back all day long if you want but they're coming home with me!!!
Michael Renne Hell yeah!
Me too!
You got that right
Awesome video. 3 wt fly rod popper/dropper would be cool also. Won’t be long now.
Chris Story that would definitely be a fun way to get these big gills. I throw little Rapalas on top and they destroy them
I tie a dense foam popper with rubber legs that is deadly. Yellow with orange legs.
Big Dark Bluegills will come completely out of the water and down on them. Only keep what you’re going to eat and release all others. They will be back next year.
great video man awsome
Glad you enjoyed it
Great Show
I’ve always been a bank fisherman for simplicity but now I’ve realized the boat is where the real fishing comes into play you can constantly move to knew areas and also use fish finders etc
Welcome to white boy fishing!!!
Always let the big ones go if you love fishing. There are plenty of medium gills available for the fry pan.
nice ones i just rent a boat sometimes so finding them is a lot harder. and also in spring here the water goes up and down so one day the fishing is on fire then water drop and then it sux. nice vid though.
The pound plus gills will have more Hg and other pollutants in their meat. Definitely fierce bluegills. Caught one last week that snapped my pole as I flipped it up towards me while standing on a dock. Smaller is better too. I eat 6 5 and thick in stunted pond and up to 8. 9.25 and up go back.
Those are some slab gills. Would be fun catching em like that through the ice.
Im a firm believer in fillet and release.
Don't ever tell anyone where this spot is...based on the people that said they would put these on their dinner plate...all these fish would be gone...Thanks for releasing them
My local lakes have been destroyed over the last 20 years from people like that. Where I am at Ice fisherman are the worst. They get onto more of the bigger fish and keep 5 gallon pales full. I want the state to massively cut bag limits and put slot limits 6-9 inches.
Now those are real bluegills 👍
Amazing! I did not know that those bluegills came in that size. Would you have as much success fly fishing them with a sink line?
So if Understand it to catch gills of that size you hardly need anything, just a boat a hummingbird 360 gps system. A special license to have access to that lake. An airplane ticket and a hotel room. An amazingly accessible activity! I will stick to my small bluegills at 10 minutes from home. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
well the lake has a public access or you could skip the special license part....
great video with monster gill!
Really cool video! Great fishing 🎣 too!
And imagine that my grandpa used to slay the big bream with a cane pole and crickets. He skulled the boat along with an old oar and had zero electronics onboard!
Very nice!
Thanks!
Once a couple foreigners find out about that spot those gills will be gone quicker then u caught them
This would of been one of the best days of my life lol
I've always believed in leaving spawning fish alone. My family owns a lake in WI and wanted to preserve as much of the population of fish for sport or the table. In the 1960's and later we learned to lower the population of fish by keeping the smaller fish, and throwing back the big ones. As time went on, the overall fish growth became stunted due to our inability to control the population size. So we stocked predators such as bass, walleyes, and pike, and that did the trick. But I can't get over the guilt that I feel when fishing the spawning beds; it makes it too easy to find and catch the fish. I'm not criticizing anyone else, I'm simply the goofball who can't let go of the old views instilled into me by my Dad and GrandDad. We believe in giving the fish a sporting chance. This is not a political rant 'cause I hate and distrust politicians! I'm just a Midwestern raised jack pine savage. Nice fish and nice video!
Bill Sutherland you make some great points. I’ll still stand by my beliefs that letting those fish go right back to their beds is doing WAY less harm then putting that fish in a bucket and putting a fillet knife through its side. The big males are the most important fish in the lake regarding bluegills. Is it any better to fish the week before the spawn and catch the fish? Or ice fishing and taking them home? Catch and release like shown in this video is not doing any harm to the fish or the lake.
As a fellow 'Sconni I know what you mean, but a balance is needed between predator (Pike, Walleye, us) and prey (anything that can be eaten). Quickly releasing fish just of the bed is not harmful, they will quickly find their way back to the nest to guard the eggs. And keep in mind that not every nest will be found, but it is very possible to fish out good genetics.
I am jealous, I have to drive for miles here in Colorado to find gills half that size. I believe in conservation too but I would be keeping a few for the corn meal and grease.
Dale Simons the good thing is that you catch a bunch of smaller ones here too and those are the better option for taking home to eat. The giant males are the key to keeping the lake healthy. We don’t have many lakes that pump out the size of these and it’s gone downhill since I recorded this video.
I love eating blugill. One of my favourite's 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Your accent sounds Canadian. Are you Canadian? If so, are those bluegills caught in Canada or the upper US states where the accent can be similar sometimes?
Western Minnesota, about 2 hours from the Canadian border so you are close! They were all caught on public waters near me, but the pressure has finally taken its toll. Luckily there are other lakes in the area that are putting out large fish.
Wow, those fish don’t have a chance against those new electro gizmos😂
Bubba Wayne you’d be amazed at the little white flags that appear when you drive up to them!
Bass Brawl Outdoors , I live along the gulf coast in Texas , one of my favorite eating fish are flounder, I’m still and old school fisherman, I haven’t went high tech on the electronics, but I remember eating some bluegills many years ago in north Alabama fishing with crickets along a bluff wall in smith lake, I haven’t eaten any since, but I remember how good they tasted in that cast iron skillet 🤗
My kids would wig out, catching them that big! :-D
Very nice
Why are those Bluegill up north so hugh small plate size and down here in the south we get excited if we get a few 9 inch Bream or Blue Gill. Thanks
Beautiful Gills; best vid of this type on RUclips, too. Great tutorial and agree with your C&R for gills that size. If you can say, at what lake in which state were you? Thanks, Don Jeff City, MO
Good video but if it's a big enough lake you want stunt the bluegills or shellcrackers growth they can both be a pound or better in a year they are big enough to reproduce at 3-4 months they grow very quickly what lake is this??
Biggest bluegill I've ever seen
Wow!! Nice fish!! Yummy!!
What part of the country are you fishing? And is it a lake, river, pond. Just curious thx. Great video
The way he talks sounds like Canada
Do you put any bait on your jig or is that just the jig only.
I like using little Berkley power baits that I can just keep the jar in the boat and always have something that will work when I see big sunfish to catch. If I'm going trophy hunting and they won't bite, then I'll use a leech or crawler. A full crawler they will nail the head and it gets those big ones to come unglued and attack it.
Nice size , they are bigger than your hand .
Hey dude what a great video I subscribed
my little worm only caught a minow haaaaay
nice boat!
An angler practicing conservation of a resource cool to see it in action. Remember the Passenger Pigeon, Great Auk, Steller's Sea Cow, & the Dodo Bird could've benefited from conservation. The trolling motor & depth finder had reasonable features.
The bass have to be super big
Biggest Ive ever seen. Pie Plate wow
Nice video man!
Based on the size of the gills and no other boat traffic I'm pretty sure for the sake of making this video you fished on a private lake or some restricted body of water. Nice gills!!
100% public waters
What part of the country are you fishing?
KA Bacon Minnesota
They look like coppernose bluegills, you can stock your pond with them for largemouth bass forage but they grow so radidly that they will soon not be usable by bass. If you don't harvest them....forget about growing bass.
Is this a private lake? I've never caught Bluegills that big in a river or public lake... I did catch some that size and a little bigger at a golf course lake one year in South Alabama... It was all catch and release...
Public access lake in Minnesota
Z71Ranger I seen a video by this other guy he was fishing a lake managed lake somewhere Central America but he was pulling average 10 inch bluegill they where monsters
If you are fishing a golf course pond you would always refrain from keeping fish for consumption. This is due to the fact that the over fertilization of the golf course has polluted the water you will be fishing. I catch many bass at a family member's meandering stream that courses around a golf course where they live. Always catch and release generally because you would not wish to eat those fish due to contaminants secondary to fertilization.
Andrew Patrick If you are worried about the fertilizers used on the golf course, you better not buy a single meat sold in stores. That shits pumped with drugs and chemicals.
I’ve caught 12 inch gills in wi every year they spawn I get em 10 to 12 inches!!!
Nice ❤
Thanks 🔥
Bluegill taste sooo good
So good!
Awsome
Best part watching them swim away??? Biiiih if it ain’t a bass that shit can get ate anyday❗️❗️❗️❗️
I bet that would look amazing with Garmin Livescope...
AMAZING
those were the biggest brim i would like to been there with you
Them some big ol Gillians lol
Why the little rods.?
Do you even know what State you are in ? .... thx...
How many inches long are the big gills
Mike b this lake grows them super thick so they don’t get as long as some other lakes in the area. Most of the big ones in this video were 10-10.25”.
Did you hook bate on the bare jig Hook?
Great catches, what size hook you use?
I'll subscribe if you make more bluegill and bream videos.
Where is he catching these massive gills???
West Central Minnesota on public lakes
Where . Location ?
Minnesota. Public water lake.