Quillback Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Been dragging Keitechs around on Loch Lomond here in Bella Vista for bass. The bass are chasing shad mid-lake and I can usually pick a few up early in the AM. Was getting a bluegill or two, but was I was using a 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head and that was a little too big for them. Decided to go with a 2.8 on a 1/8 oz head today and put 8 nice gills in the boat which have been transformed into fillets in the freezer. They are out in the middle of the lake, eating small shad just like the bass. nomolites, BilletHead, FishnDave and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasy B Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Those are some very nice fish. Quillback and Mitch f 2 His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Good looking gills. I’ve been catching green sunfish on Zeros while bass fishing, but none big enough for the knife. Big Keene and Quillback 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsfolly Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Great looking bluegill @Quillback! Nice fat fish and bet that they were nice fillets! Sure that they put up a great fight as well. Quillback and Big Keene 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillback Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 6 hours ago, Johnsfolly said: Great looking bluegill @Quillback! Nice fat fish and bet that they were nice fillets! Sure that they put up a great fight as well. They are becoming my favorite for eating, a couple of weeks ago I fried some walleye and bluegills and I thought the bluegill was better than the walleye. To each his own of course, but I think these bluegill are very tasty. MGP, Greasy B, Johnsfolly and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsfolly Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 25 minutes ago, Quillback said: They are becoming my favorite for eating, a couple of weeks ago I fried some walleye and bluegills and I thought the bluegill was better than the walleye. To each his own of course, but I think these bluegill are very tasty. I agree. Bluegill are my favorite fresh water fish to eat. Big Keene, Mitch f and Greasy B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Keene Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Nice fish 10" bluegill are worth going back and getting crickets or red wigglers for. an ultralight and jumbo bluegill is a hard to beat combo!! top notch fillets as well! win win Johnsfolly and Quillback 2 Illegitimi non carborundum (Never let the bastards grind you down) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillback Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Big Keene said: Nice fish 10" bluegill are worth going back and getting crickets or red wigglers for. an ultralight and jumbo bluegill is a hard to beat combo!! top notch fillets as well! win win I went back today and caught another 4 good sized gills on the swimbait. I now have plenty of fillets so will probably leave them alone for a while. They are out chasing shad over 40-50 FOW, so I don't know if fishing worms will get them, but it is certainly a possibility. I have thought about some really small swimbaits on little tungsten heads, Z-man makes some little 2 inch paddle tails that could be the ticket for these open water shad chasers. The bass in this lake just moved into one of the coves and they are in there thick chasing shad, had a good late morning throwing the Keitech at them. Had another 8 boats or so there with me, but could still get in there and get some. Hard to ignore the bass and chase the gills when the bass get going on this shad bite. Mitch f, Greasy B, Johnsfolly and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Good going again. I probably caught 6-8 green sunfish again today on Zeros bass fishing. Only one of them would have been anywhere close to filleting size. Quillback 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrierman Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 On 8/20/2020 at 12:10 PM, Quillback said: Been dragging Keitechs around on Loch Lomond here in Bella Vista for bass. The bass are chasing shad mid-lake and I can usually pick a few up early in the AM. Was getting a bluegill or two, but was I was using a 3.3 Keitech on a 1/4 oz head and that was a little too big for them. Decided to go with a 2.8 on a 1/8 oz head today and put 8 nice gills in the boat which have been transformed into fillets in the freezer. They are out in the middle of the lake, eating small shad just like the bass. Those are for sure big bluegills. Actually my favorite eating fish. By a skosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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