Excellent info, Cornmuse and beedleach.

In my haste to get back into bluegill fishing, I always seem to forget my frustration from the previoous spring in not catching the bluegills right away.

I've never really payed attention to the "order" of things like you mentioned. It's good to have an idea of what to expect. We went back into a very shallow cove with a muddy bottom and found 6 or 8 bass sitting in maybe a foot or so of water right up against the reeds together. I didn't see any beds, maybe they were getting ready to start all that?

Oh, and I'm in eastern Washington State. (The desert side, not the "evergreen side") Just in the last few weeks the daytime temps have been consistently above the mid-sixties. Last week it hit 80-something, and this week it's in the mid-seventies. Dunno what temp the water is, but I bought a thermometer yesterday to start tracking that.