Back to Work on my 2014 Bluegill Quest

I was back on Walker County Lake Tuesday working on my bluegill quest. I wanted to see if the live bait crowd had left any bluegills on the beds that I could take with the small poppers. I fished roughly 3 hours and landed some nice gills worthy of my count for this year. This is a daylight dust to dark lake and if one wants to catch anything at all you need to fish at those times.

The first bull gill of the morning with the popper stuck deep in its throat; awesome on the 4 weight.

Most all the bluegills were located directly under this overhanging tree. It was tricky casting placing the size 8 popper directly under the tree limbs. When the popper did make it to its target under the tree and next to the bank, it was just a matter of seconds before the popper disappeared and the fight was on. Sorry for the poor quality of this image.

Another nice bluegill with the popper stuffed inside it's mouth.

I thought I would enter this bluegill in the contest Mel’sfriend is conducting on Facebook.

These five are worthy of the quest, I am now 35 away from my goal. 

Some fantastic table fare baked or deep fired in peanut oil. Add some fresh fries, cole slaw, hush puppies and of course a cold Coors; anybody hungry??

 

 

 

 

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