A kid again

[Stuartwp]

After the 8th person came into the office Friday morning wondering why I wasn't picking up some of the night crawlers all over the parking lot, I took the hint and made some arrangements to wet a line saterday morning. The next morning early, I was headed out to a freinds pond to do a little bass fishing, but before I got out of town, I stopped by work and picked up a couple dozen night crawlers and threw them in a plastic ice cream bucket full fo wet leaves.

Bass fishing was kind of slow(nothing at all) when I remebred the night crawlers. I scrounged up a bobber and a 1/16 ounce white jig and baited up. The bobber never even settled before it went under. Nothing spectacular, just an over eager, too big for his britches six inch blue gill. The next 11 casts where carbon copies of each other.

I quit three hours later when I reached the count of 50. Some where smaller, some where bigger. Most where average. One may have been ten inches long, but I dropped him in the water while I was fumbling for my measuring tape. All I can tell you now it that his mouth was big enough to fit my thumb inside.

It was a great morning. Like most kids,I grew up on bluegills, and yesterday morning was pleasant walk down memeory lane.

[Phil Lilley]

Do you fillet or eat them whole? My grounds/dock man eats them whole- says they taste better... but he's a Cajun.

[gonefishin]

I tried eating them whole one time. Their head was really crunchy and their fins kept getting hung up in my mouth.