These are extremely special fish! There are not many places left that you can catch TRUE 1lb gills anymore!!! Thank you for stressing the fact you need to put these BACK!
Bass Brawl Outdoors just keep teaching people what the truth is about taking the bigs out only makes the population smaller till all that’s left are disgusting stunted ugly 4-6in fish
Me to That's why people threw out time fished ! now you have all these stupid assholes who watch to much television shows and think there sportsman. Like the guys making those shows, but there duping them for money so they don't give a shit.
I've always believed in leaving spawning fish alone. My family owns a lake in WI and wanted to preserve as much of the population of fish for sport or the table. In the 1960's and later we learned to lower the population of fish by keeping the smaller fish, and throwing back the big ones. As time went on, the overall fish growth became stunted due to our inability to control the population size. So we stocked predators such as bass, walleyes, and pike, and that did the trick. But I can't get over the guilt that I feel when fishing the spawning beds; it makes it too easy to find and catch the fish. I'm not criticizing anyone else, I'm simply the goofball who can't let go of the old views instilled into me by my Dad and GrandDad. We believe in giving the fish a sporting chance. This is not a political rant 'cause I hate and distrust politicians! I'm just a Midwestern raised jack pine savage. Nice fish and nice video!
Bill Sutherland you make some great points. I’ll still stand by my beliefs that letting those fish go right back to their beds is doing WAY less harm then putting that fish in a bucket and putting a fillet knife through its side. The big males are the most important fish in the lake regarding bluegills. Is it any better to fish the week before the spawn and catch the fish? Or ice fishing and taking them home? Catch and release like shown in this video is not doing any harm to the fish or the lake.
As a fellow 'Sconni I know what you mean, but a balance is needed between predator (Pike, Walleye, us) and prey (anything that can be eaten). Quickly releasing fish just of the bed is not harmful, they will quickly find their way back to the nest to guard the eggs. And keep in mind that not every nest will be found, but it is very possible to fish out good genetics.
You know some people can't stand to see positive people doing good things, so they have to be negative because they have nothing better to do but criticize and put down good people who are doing better than them!!
Look, it is not going to decimate the population if you keep some of these larger fish. DO NOT FISH A BEDDING COLONY OUT! That will do harm. I learned from men who knew way more about this subject than 98% of us today.
Nobody's angry. Guys like this one do us a favor. All the fish he threw back will be there when we go fishing. But he needs to tell us where the hell he's fishing.
I wouldn't even use that . A medium roostertail crayfish color or a meps plastic minnow crankbait . Nice fish love your channel corkfly white red eyes is fun with a fly rod ..
Don't ever tell anyone where this spot is...based on the people that said they would put these on their dinner plate...all these fish would be gone...Thanks for releasing them
My local lakes have been destroyed over the last 20 years from people like that. Where I am at Ice fisherman are the worst. They get onto more of the bigger fish and keep 5 gallon pales full. I want the state to massively cut bag limits and put slot limits 6-9 inches.
Your accent sounds Canadian. Are you Canadian? If so, are those bluegills caught in Canada or the upper US states where the accent can be similar sometimes?
Western Minnesota, about 2 hours from the Canadian border so you are close! They were all caught on public waters near me, but the pressure has finally taken its toll. Luckily there are other lakes in the area that are putting out large fish.
Out at Lake Henderson in Louisiana they have no limit but they have some people that goes out there and try to see how many they can catch and keep just because they can I only keep what I can eat after watching this video i will be trowing back the larger ones THANKS
I'm glad you want to throw the bigger ones back. Such a simple thing to do if you are catching a bunch of average size fish and have enough for a meal and don't need to keep the big ones.
love fishing for smaller fish, crappie, bluegills etc. I prefer to use a smaller rod for a better fight, 2-6lb test on a 4-5' light weight rod is a lot of fun. if you happen to land a bigger bass or trout they put up a great fight.
Don't need no electronics , when I was living in Arizona , I had a special spot that I fished for bluegill and crappie on saguaro lake ! This spring I just need to find my special spot again , but I'm in Missouri now !
Beautiful Gills; best vid of this type on UA-cam, too. Great tutorial and agree with your C&R for gills that size. If you can say, at what lake in which state were you? Thanks, Don Jeff City, MO
With the fishing pressure we have nowadays. Sponging bluegills should be protected. And the fishing season for gills should be closed during that time. I know of too many lakes that are good panfish lakes. That have depleted population of bluegills. And, besides the DNR hopefully doing their job by helping to replenish the bluegills. Closing the fishing for gills during their sponging, would help at least somewhat, replenish. There population. Pan fish are way too vulnerable during that time.
The pound plus gills will have more Hg and other pollutants in their meat. Definitely fierce bluegills. Caught one last week that snapped my pole as I flipped it up towards me while standing on a dock. Smaller is better too. I eat 6 5 and thick in stunted pond and up to 8. 9.25 and up go back.
Hello ! I need your help please. What the name and size of your spinning rod and spinning reel and your name and size fishing line and the name and size and color of that rooster tail set up please. I have a 6’ 6” st. croix triumph medium fast action spinning rod and a Dawia tatula Lt 2500 spinning reel. What size fishing line and size and color rooster tail that you would recommend me to buy with that setup I have for I can catch them big fat bluegills like you are catching in this UA-cam video please. May the lord be in your heart today to reply back to me with all of my questions answer and may the lord bless you and your family and your UA-cam page in 2023🙏🙏 keep them UA-cam bluegills videos coming for 2023 please.
And imagine that my grandpa used to slay the big bream with a cane pole and crickets. He skulled the boat along with an old oar and had zero electronics onboard!
They look like coppernose bluegills, you can stock your pond with them for largemouth bass forage but they grow so radidly that they will soon not be usable by bass. If you don't harvest them....forget about growing bass.
I love bluegill for their fight, their taste, their beauty, their ability to get big fish when you use the smaller ones as bait. Its a treat. I wish I could eat more bluegill but my lakes don't stalk them so I only have two of them a year, and they have to be kind of big, like the ones you caught. cause I have no idea how many there are, and if I knew I'd just keep a bunch of smaller ones and deep fry them whole if the waters well populated with them.
These are some absolutely beautiful Bluegills. I would love to catch some like that. I'm on Long Island NY, we only have tiny little lakes here. They don't go so big round here sadly...............
WOW! I've caught a many a bluegill in my day, And the ones that came anywhere near the size of these I could easy count on one hand and not even use all the fingers! I would had to took couple --3 home at least they make good eating.....
nice ones i just rent a boat sometimes so finding them is a lot harder. and also in spring here the water goes up and down so one day the fishing is on fire then water drop and then it sux. nice vid though.
Based on the size of the gills and no other boat traffic I'm pretty sure for the sake of making this video you fished on a private lake or some restricted body of water. Nice gills!!
Doesn't age matter? Those big ones may only live another year.while the little ones will spawn for several more. It might matter just how many eggs a big lays but perhaps a little one will eventually a little one may lay more eggs than the bigger one at that point in time.
Read the studies. Minnesota has a bunch of studies. Releasing the big males is the most important thing you can do. Period. The science and biology backs it up.
GREAT video. Like you said best thing about it is you let them swim. Fine to take a few for dinner but if the wrong people find out about this it's way to easy to fill freezers and kill the fishery. I subbed check out my channel if you have a chance.
I like using little Berkley power baits that I can just keep the jar in the boat and always have something that will work when I see big sunfish to catch. If I'm going trophy hunting and they won't bite, then I'll use a leech or crawler. A full crawler they will nail the head and it gets those big ones to come unglued and attack it.
Bass Brawl Outdoors , I live along the gulf coast in Texas , one of my favorite eating fish are flounder, I’m still and old school fisherman, I haven’t went high tech on the electronics, but I remember eating some bluegills many years ago in north Alabama fishing with crickets along a bluff wall in smith lake, I haven’t eaten any since, but I remember how good they tasted in that cast iron skillet 🤗
Ineluctable Smith - exactly... drives me nuts when people limit out every time they go. That turns into a lot of freezer burnt fish getting thrown out a year later.
reel custom, they would not have a chance of getting freezer burnt in my home, ... & they are to plentiful, there are no regulations on them in any state I ever heard of, ...
Big Dark Bluegills will come completely out of the water and down on them. Only keep what you’re going to eat and release all others. They will be back next year.
Good video but if it's a big enough lake you want stunt the bluegills or shellcrackers growth they can both be a pound or better in a year they are big enough to reproduce at 3-4 months they grow very quickly what lake is this??
Bluegills are absolutely beautiful fish. They also are some of the best fighting fish for their size in the world.
Andrew Patrick I love when they spiral as they fight!
truth. I cannot wait for summer
Andrew Patrick Agreed in full!👍
If they weighed up to 5lbs, No one would fish for bass
@@BassBrawlOutdoors you sir are the Roland Martin of bluegills
These are extremely special fish! There are not many places left that you can catch TRUE 1lb gills anymore!!! Thank you for stressing the fact you need to put these BACK!
DWS Outdoors thanks for the feedback. Hopefully they can hold strong and not get wiped out.
Bass Brawl Outdoors just keep teaching people what the truth is about taking the bigs out only makes the population smaller till all that’s left are disgusting stunted ugly 4-6in fish
Eat’em!!!!!!
@@MauriceFord-q8i Release ... to the Grease !!
And remember! Go fishing when you can because it's good for ya! #RicharhGeneTheFishingMachine
I believe in catch and release.. into a hot pan of grease
Diego Plante not on the beds post or prespawn or any other time of the year when they aren’t protecting babies
Me to That's why people threw out time fished ! now you have all these stupid assholes who watch to much television shows and think there sportsman. Like the guys making those shows, but there duping them for money so they don't give a shit.
KEEPN EM ALL,,,,,FCK THAT,,,,,,WHAT LAKE YOU IN....🤔LOL
" Catch and grease "
Facts
I've always believed in leaving spawning fish alone. My family owns a lake in WI and wanted to preserve as much of the population of fish for sport or the table. In the 1960's and later we learned to lower the population of fish by keeping the smaller fish, and throwing back the big ones. As time went on, the overall fish growth became stunted due to our inability to control the population size. So we stocked predators such as bass, walleyes, and pike, and that did the trick. But I can't get over the guilt that I feel when fishing the spawning beds; it makes it too easy to find and catch the fish. I'm not criticizing anyone else, I'm simply the goofball who can't let go of the old views instilled into me by my Dad and GrandDad. We believe in giving the fish a sporting chance. This is not a political rant 'cause I hate and distrust politicians! I'm just a Midwestern raised jack pine savage. Nice fish and nice video!
Bill Sutherland you make some great points. I’ll still stand by my beliefs that letting those fish go right back to their beds is doing WAY less harm then putting that fish in a bucket and putting a fillet knife through its side. The big males are the most important fish in the lake regarding bluegills. Is it any better to fish the week before the spawn and catch the fish? Or ice fishing and taking them home? Catch and release like shown in this video is not doing any harm to the fish or the lake.
As a fellow 'Sconni I know what you mean, but a balance is needed between predator (Pike, Walleye, us) and prey (anything that can be eaten). Quickly releasing fish just of the bed is not harmful, they will quickly find their way back to the nest to guard the eggs. And keep in mind that not every nest will be found, but it is very possible to fish out good genetics.
For those with the angry negative comments please go to another channel that deals with politics. This guy is doing no harm.
Awwww! Why's dat? Because him has no baws and scared him will git hims feelwins hurt? Awwwwww!😢😢😢😢
You know some people can't stand to see positive people doing good things, so they have to be negative because they have nothing better to do but criticize and put down good people who are doing better than them!!
Look, it is not going to decimate the population if you keep some of these larger fish. DO NOT FISH A BEDDING COLONY OUT! That will do harm. I learned from men who knew way more about this subject than 98% of us today.
@@michaelrenne1802 poor spelling, even for a baby talk joke.
Nobody's angry. Guys like this one do us a favor. All the fish he threw back will be there when we go fishing. But he needs to tell us where the hell he's fishing.
nice show..nice fishin..i usually watch richard gene the fishing machine..crappie..but...i love to catch gills..great vid
Go Gene!
A wooooooh😁😂😂
The only thing I hate about this video is I am not in that boat helping to catch those big bluegills
Dude those are huge Bluegills!..Omg!.
I wouldn't even use that . A medium roostertail crayfish color or a meps plastic minnow crankbait . Nice fish love your channel corkfly white red eyes is fun with a fly rod ..
I’ve been catching blue gill all my life never that big though. Awesome
Don't ever tell anyone where this spot is...based on the people that said they would put these on their dinner plate...all these fish would be gone...Thanks for releasing them
My local lakes have been destroyed over the last 20 years from people like that. Where I am at Ice fisherman are the worst. They get onto more of the bigger fish and keep 5 gallon pales full. I want the state to massively cut bag limits and put slot limits 6-9 inches.
Once a couple foreigners find out about that spot those gills will be gone quicker then u caught them
Your accent sounds Canadian. Are you Canadian? If so, are those bluegills caught in Canada or the upper US states where the accent can be similar sometimes?
Western Minnesota, about 2 hours from the Canadian border so you are close! They were all caught on public waters near me, but the pressure has finally taken its toll. Luckily there are other lakes in the area that are putting out large fish.
I catch big gills like that all the time they really put up a fight especially on light tackle
Thanks for talking about the reasons for releasing the larger gills.
Nice size , they are bigger than your hand .
my little worm only caught a minow haaaaay
Buddy you can throw them back all day long if you want but they're coming home with me!!!
Michael Renne Hell yeah!
Me too!
You got that right
Biggest bluegill I've ever seen
I would not have gone home that day
Out at Lake Henderson in Louisiana they have no limit but they have some people that goes out there and try to see how many they can catch and keep just because they can I only keep what I can eat after watching this video i will be trowing back the larger ones THANKS
I'm glad you want to throw the bigger ones back. Such a simple thing to do if you are catching a bunch of average size fish and have enough for a meal and don't need to keep the big ones.
would be more of a treat if you'd be frying them up
Michael Delcambre If everyone fried every one they caught there would be no more
A close-up of bobber tie would've been nice, great video thanks!
love fishing for smaller fish, crappie, bluegills etc. I prefer to use a smaller rod for a better fight, 2-6lb test on a 4-5' light weight rod is a lot of fun. if you happen to land a bigger bass or trout they put up a great fight.
Catching bluegills the size of frying pans. Loving it! Great video!
😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂yesirrrr
Now thats some good fishing & eating! Nice work!🎣
Don't need no electronics , when I was living in Arizona , I had a special spot that I fished for bluegill and crappie on saguaro lake ! This spring I just need to find my special spot again , but I'm in Missouri now !
Gills are fun to catch....massive ones too....nicely done.
Thanks 👍
Full of eggs.
Beautiful Gills; best vid of this type on UA-cam, too. Great tutorial and agree with your C&R for gills that size. If you can say, at what lake in which state were you? Thanks, Don Jeff City, MO
Nothing beats seeing that honeycomb of nests. I've been fishing my whole life and it still takes the cake as the most exciting thing to see
I'm in Oregon so crappie for me but I remember Kansas and Missouri fishing for gill.
With the fishing pressure we have nowadays. Sponging bluegills should be protected. And the fishing season for gills should be closed during that time. I know of too many lakes that are good panfish lakes. That have depleted population of bluegills. And, besides the DNR hopefully doing their job by helping to replenish the bluegills. Closing the fishing for gills during their sponging, would help at least somewhat, replenish. There population. Pan fish are way too vulnerable during that time.
Those are some slab gills. Would be fun catching em like that through the ice.
The pound plus gills will have more Hg and other pollutants in their meat. Definitely fierce bluegills. Caught one last week that snapped my pole as I flipped it up towards me while standing on a dock. Smaller is better too. I eat 6 5 and thick in stunted pond and up to 8. 9.25 and up go back.
Hello ! I need your help please. What the name and size of your spinning rod and spinning reel and your name and size fishing line and the name and size and color of that rooster tail set up please. I have a 6’ 6” st. croix triumph medium fast action spinning rod and a Dawia tatula Lt 2500 spinning reel. What size fishing line and size and color rooster tail that you would recommend me to buy with that setup I have for I can catch them big fat bluegills like you are catching in this UA-cam video please. May the lord be in your heart today to reply back to me with all of my questions answer and may the lord bless you and your family and your UA-cam page in 2023🙏🙏 keep them UA-cam bluegills videos coming for 2023 please.
The bass have to be super big
Glad to see you catch and release those on bed. Especially, the big ones.
It's amazing to see the Bluegill caught just with the rooster tail spinner . Thank you for your sharing!
I love the way he explianed very easy guide to go after bedding bluegills! Great job guy! Am a subscriber!👍
Very nice
And imagine that my grandpa used to slay the big bream with a cane pole and crickets. He skulled the boat along with an old oar and had zero electronics onboard!
great video man awsome
Glad you enjoyed it
Im a firm believer in fillet and release.
Obviously this guy doesn't follow realistic fishing videos...
They look like coppernose bluegills, you can stock your pond with them for largemouth bass forage but they grow so radidly that they will soon not be usable by bass. If you don't harvest them....forget about growing bass.
Everyone wants to know where the honey hole is. Tell'em and the next time you go there 50 boats will be waiting for you.
When I hear honey hole, it means for me to go straight to the bedroom!
Nice catch!
Thanks!
Nice big bluegills 🎣
I love bluegill for their fight, their taste, their beauty, their ability to get big fish when you use the smaller ones as bait. Its a treat. I wish I could eat more bluegill but my lakes don't stalk them so I only have two of them a year, and they have to be kind of big, like the ones you caught. cause I have no idea how many there are, and if I knew I'd just keep a bunch of smaller ones and deep fry them whole if the waters well populated with them.
These are some absolutely beautiful Bluegills. I would love to catch some like that. I'm on Long Island NY, we only have tiny little lakes here. They don't go so big round here sadly...............
WOW! I've caught a many a bluegill in my day, And the ones that came anywhere near the size of these I could easy count on one hand and not even use all the fingers! I would had to took couple --3 home at least they make good eating.....
Respect the spawn , no eggs , no babies , no future
This would of been one of the best days of my life lol
I'll subscribe if you make more bluegill and bream videos.
Now those are real bluegills 👍
That is big bluegill very rare
nice ones i just rent a boat sometimes so finding them is a lot harder. and also in spring here the water goes up and down so one day the fishing is on fire then water drop and then it sux. nice vid though.
Awe man bro I enjoyed that video
I'm from the south them are some "Hubcaps" as we called them lol
Nice ❤
Thanks 🔥
Very nice!
Thanks!
Wow nice trophy fish it's my favorite
I like how u teach new bees ! Thank U! Man those are some slabs!!! Nice work. I subed!!
Dam..wish I had a dollar every time he said pie plate..
And $2 for every time he said Massive or Giant. :)
From the south... its dinner plate & blue gill. But I'm learning so tricks and he's smashing them lol.
Based on the size of the gills and no other boat traffic I'm pretty sure for the sake of making this video you fished on a private lake or some restricted body of water. Nice gills!!
100% public waters
those were the biggest brim i would like to been there with you
Doesn't age matter? Those big ones may only live another year.while the little ones will spawn for several more. It might matter just how many eggs a big lays but perhaps a little one will eventually a little one may lay more eggs than the bigger one at that point in time.
Read the studies. Minnesota has a bunch of studies. Releasing the big males is the most important thing you can do. Period. The science and biology backs it up.
Wow! Either you've got really small hands (yuk, yuk) or those are monsters. What girth!
You know what they say about small hands. That explain why he's such a good fisherman because he has no girlfriend. Just call him stumpy!!😂😂😂😂
Where is his accent from...wisconsin
GREAT video. Like you said best thing about it is you let them swim. Fine to take a few for dinner but if the wrong people find out about this it's way to easy to fill freezers and kill the fishery. I subbed check out my channel if you have a chance.
Do you put any bait on your jig or is that just the jig only.
I like using little Berkley power baits that I can just keep the jar in the boat and always have something that will work when I see big sunfish to catch. If I'm going trophy hunting and they won't bite, then I'll use a leech or crawler. A full crawler they will nail the head and it gets those big ones to come unglued and attack it.
Biggest Ive ever seen. Pie Plate wow
Hey dude what a great video I subscribed
We call that 1st fish a red breasts
What part of the country are you fishing?
KA Bacon Minnesota
Always let the big ones go if you love fishing. There are plenty of medium gills available for the fry pan.
Alot of absolutes in this vid
Those are good meat to eat
Wow, those fish don’t have a chance against those new electro gizmos😂
Bubba Wayne you’d be amazed at the little white flags that appear when you drive up to them!
Bass Brawl Outdoors , I live along the gulf coast in Texas , one of my favorite eating fish are flounder, I’m still and old school fisherman, I haven’t went high tech on the electronics, but I remember eating some bluegills many years ago in north Alabama fishing with crickets along a bluff wall in smith lake, I haven’t eaten any since, but I remember how good they tasted in that cast iron skillet 🤗
Where you fishing🤔
Nice gills!
Those are some monster Gils my friend.very nice!
Thank you!
Why the little rods.?
I love eating blugill. One of my favourite's 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Catch and eat down hear in Florida
A sinking fly would make that great fun as well. No one would be mad if you took 3 home for supper. I do agree with catch and release most always.
Ineluctable Smith - exactly... drives me nuts when people limit out every time they go. That turns into a lot of freezer burnt fish getting thrown out a year later.
reel custom, they would not have a chance of getting freezer burnt in my home, ... & they are to plentiful, there are no regulations on them in any state I ever heard of, ...
Man those were massive. Really need to learn to read my lowrance fish finder on those settings
where is this river?
Awesome video. 3 wt fly rod popper/dropper would be cool also. Won’t be long now.
Chris Story that would definitely be a fun way to get these big gills. I throw little Rapalas on top and they destroy them
I tie a dense foam popper with rubber legs that is deadly. Yellow with orange legs.
Big Dark Bluegills will come completely out of the water and down on them. Only keep what you’re going to eat and release all others. They will be back next year.
Liking your stuff bro!! Excellent content! Subbed. Newbie here. Check us out. Peace!
Must be a private pond. Because he isn’t giving up any info on where he’s fishing. Nice gills though.
Public waters
Most don't because everyone would go there.
Awsome
Nice gills Thank you for the tips
Glad you like it!
We Fishing
Great Show
Good video but if it's a big enough lake you want stunt the bluegills or shellcrackers growth they can both be a pound or better in a year they are big enough to reproduce at 3-4 months they grow very quickly what lake is this??
Why are those Bluegill up north so hugh small plate size and down here in the south we get excited if we get a few 9 inch Bream or Blue Gill. Thanks
Where . Location ?
Minnesota. Public water lake.
Good job feel ya but. 1female 200 thousand a year we got to GET some out too food for thought keep catching...
Best part watching them swim away??? Biiiih if it ain’t a bass that shit can get ate anyday❗️❗️❗️❗️