MATCHED THE HATCH
It was early Friday morning. I had loaded the canoe and all the other stuff the night before. Temperatures would be in the mid 90?s in the afternoon.
It was in the low 70?s at 6:30 when I hit the pond.
MATCHED THE HATCH
It was early Friday morning. I had loaded the canoe and all the other stuff the night before. Temperatures would be in the mid 90?s in the afternoon.
It was in the low 70?s at 6:30 when I hit the pond.
11.75"+ Bluegill?? Rick, you GOTTA take/share some pictures! That is a GIANT bluegill....fish-of-a-lifetime for a guy like me! ;o)
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
Rick,
In most of your stories, you average 50-75+ fish per trip. i gotta ask, what do you do with all these fish? Im saying, do u actually have time between articles to eat all those, or do you have a freezer full of fish fillets? and I know you give some away, but it still seems like alot of fish.
Also, isn't there some sort of negative affect on the pond to be taking that many fish that are as big as you say? In the ponds i fish, I'm lucky to get a good 7" gill, and i don't take any home. The pond i fish most often is at least a 2 if not 2.5 acre pond, so what is the secret?
Jordan
We keep about 6 to 8 fillets to eat. I give the rest of them away.
Most gills that I catch that are over 10 inches long go back in the pond, unless they are hooked deeply and I don't think they will survive.
I have over 100 ponds around here that I can fish. I watch the ponds to see that the number of fish I catch and the size doesn ot decrease.
The ponds are on fertile gorund so taking 200 hundred panfish out of a 4 acre pond in a year is not a problem.
Numbers deems to stay the same and size increases.
Also release all the bass.
Rick
Rick