Check out this monster bluegill (pic)...

Check out this bluegill that was caught in a Clark Co pond this past weekend...it's one of my co-workers family, so he brought the picture in today and I scanned it.

He said it was weighed on a certified scale and witnessed by the game warden, so it may be a new state record...I can't remember what he said it weighed...I want to say 3lb15oz, but don't quote me there. I didn't write it down. (And I think the state record is 4-something)

Record or not, it's a heck of a gill...
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That is one big gill .

Mike

Oh yeah, and it hit a topwater plug...

That is an AMAZING FISH!! I would almost have been tempted to put that on the wall (if I wasn't so intent on eating it :). Thanks for taking the time to share that with us.

Does it look like a Redear (shellcracker) to you guys?

That would make more sense to me on the State Record deal.

Is that one of those hybrids? That is awesome!:)

That's the first thing I asked...whether it was a hybrid...and it wasn't.

That dude would be mounted and hanging on my wall!

Looks like a Shellcracker to me, just missing red on the edge of gill flap.

[QUOTE=MrSplitshot;324985]Check out this bluegill that was caught in a Clark Co pond this past weekend...it's one of my co-workers family, so he brought the picture in today and I scanned it.

He said it was weighed on a certified scale and witnessed by the game warden, so it may be a new state record...I can't remember what he said it weighed...I want to say 3lb15oz, but don't quote me there. I didn't write it down. (And I think the state record is 4-something)


Boy that's one mean looking brute,,,Hear's a pic of a Redear I caught last year about this time in May on a rebal craw crank. He was fun to catch on Ultra Lite also. Link: [IMG]http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll88/allardd/fish/2006_0504Image0005.jpg[/IMG]

That's a hoss! That had to be a blast. Did you eat that?

[QUOTE=DJD;325062]That's a hoss! That had to be a blast. Did you eat that?[/QUOTE]
Ashamed to say, but yes it wasn't the classic CPR for this ol' girl.

Very nice! I'd like to get one of them on my flyrod, it'd probably take a half-hour to land.
Thanks for sharing that one.