On Lake Now. Where Can I Find Bluegill Bigger Than A Golfball?

[polock]

Over by the dam and am tring all the coves with no luck finding any keeper sized fish. Any suggestionsy

[Crappie Fisherman]

Over by the dam and am tring all the coves with no luck finding any keeper sized fish. Any suggestionsy

Try gravel flats and points in about 10-20 feet of water. They aren't spawning really good just yet, but you might pick up a few. Other suggestions would be to sift through the small ones on the brushpiles. Caught a few nice ones doing that last week.

[SKMO]

Over by the dam and am tring all the coves with no luck finding any keeper sized fish. Any suggestionsy

I'll do my best but there is two patterns I can fish:

Right now during the spawn (and it is really variable depending on where you are on the lake) try to find a small clear water runoff pocket or head of cove, or a side pocket in a large cove that has some clear pea gravel showing and some fish on beds. The beds you see will be maybe 3' deep, with small fish. The big knot heads will be bedding out deeper in 6-12+ feet just under your boat as you saw the shallow nests. They are not Rocket Surgeons and will come up to play. Clean pea gravel is really important. Forget the beds you can see and go for the deep guys. Back out even more and fish the invisible fish.

Once the spawn is over it gets pretty easy. Fish the wide open gravel flats exactly where you would look for dropshot fish, 22-30 feet with any gill type bait. This is easiest and best in my opinion. As far as bait, criks rule but they are a pain in the heinie and I can hold my own with chunks of crawler. Years ago I went toward flooded timber for summer gills, but did nothing other than beat off catfish bait.

I Am Positive the biggest knothead Gills roam about on the gravel flats with the Ky's during the summer. Forget all you know about 'gill fishing being related to hard cover, trees, and weeds that do not exist in TR. Ah yeah, the pigs are open water roamers and big enough to hold their own.

The biggest and best Gills are gonna be chasing the thread fin out on the flats all summer long and holding their own against the KY's.

Just the way it is.

All this simply my opinion, based on experience.

[timsfly]

I'm still catching them in 2-8 feet of water some have spawned out, some are just starting to spawn, I caught 4 yesterday over 10" one was 13" it was a pig, here is a pic.

I think this is a greenie/gill hybrid but I caught a bunch of them yesterday, and some regluar gills also.

[pbd]

I'm still catching them in 2-8 feet of water some have spawned out, some are just starting to spawn, I caught 4 yesterday over 10" one was 13" it was a pig, here is a pic.

I think this is a greenie/gill hybrid but I caught a bunch of them yesterday, and some regluar gills also.

[pbd]

The one on the left looks like a "Red ear"!

[polock]

yeah didn't see any anywhere near that size today. i am beginning to hate this lake

[Crappie Fisherman]

I'm still catching them in 2-8 feet of water some have spawned out, some are just starting to spawn, I caught 4 yesterday over 10" one was 13" it was a pig, here is a pic.

I think this is a greenie/gill hybrid but I caught a bunch of them yesterday, and some regluar gills also.

That's a huge green sunfish. You should consider applying for a Master Angler Award from MDC:

http://mdc4.mdc.mo.gov/Documents/71.pdf