Bluegill with livescope?

[Bill Babler]

The bigger gills here on the Rock and also Bull love  flat gravel. I’m going to say, not only to spawn but forage.

I really don’t know but I’m guessing the gravel houses lots of creepy crawlers that are just the right size.  Plus, you have lots of crustaceans in the gravel and lots of Shad finning around.  Wind and wave action expose the forage.

Unlike most fisheries Smallmouth here also love the wide open spaces our gravel points and flats provide. It seems if you add structure they move. 

Yes you get some  smaller gills on structure ie piles but the bigger gills like gravel and standing pole timber does not hurt. 

Now with a somewhat of a recent walleye explosion, they are most always in with the big gills. Find a depth on the White River with big gills and you find walleye. 

Seems  like the K’s are usually on the deep edges of the gills and eyes. 

 

[dan hufferd]

I've caught some dandies bottom bouncing for walleye 

[waterpossum]

Years ago Lamar city lake in Lamar. Missouri stocked hybrid blue gill. There were plenty of large fish to be caught. I don't think they do it anymore, but it seems like that would be a great project to undertake even if only for city and county lakes. Fishing pressure has reached an all time high. Lakes that once fished big have now been reduced in size with the new technology. Bass especially have been hammered and been transported to weigh in sites by the thousands.