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Offline bret

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Bruiser Bluegill
« on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:43 PM »
I was fishing solo this morning when this "bruiser" took a swipe at my jig.  Nice 11 inch gill with 10 1/4 inch girth.  I thought about a mount but released it instead.

   
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #1 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:45 PM »
Nice Gill!!! :clap:
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #2 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:46 PM »
That would be a good entry in the Ice Shanty tournament.
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #3 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:47 PM »
Nice fish. Where did you catch that brute. Did he have any friends.
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #4 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:57 PM »
He had friends....couple 10 inch redears, some smaller buddies aaaaand I was broke off 3 times!  Not a lot of fish but some nice ones.
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #5 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:00 PM »
Sounds like fun. what pound test were you using? I am partial to 2#. It does break easily, however, you detect many more bites. How deep was the water ?
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #6 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:06 PM »
2# and 5-7 fow   :)
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #7 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:08 PM »
Did that thing "Oink" at all?  What a pig!  Way to go on the catch & release! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #8 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:43 PM »
Suuuweeey! Nice piggill and CPR, dude!
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #9 on: Jan 21, 2008, 11:15 PM »
Nice hawg gill, way to go!!.
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #10 on: Jan 22, 2008, 07:51 AM »
Quote from: bret on Jan 21, 2008, 09:57 PM
He had friends....couple 10 inch redears, some smaller buddies aaaaand I was broke off 3 times!  Not a lot of fish but some nice ones.

Bret,

Nice pig.....It looks like it might be a redear to me.  Isn't there a sliver of red at the edge of black dot on its gill plate?  Bluegill or redear, it is a nice fish!! :clap: :thumbsup:
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #11 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:05 AM »
Thats what Im talking about Bret ;D..........Stay on top of em my friend,Im still pluking away at my first 10" of the year,congrads on a fish of a lifetime.....

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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #12 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:28 AM »
That is a rare fish! Maybe top 1 % of gills taken in northern Indiana?

Even as a taxidermist I commend you for releasing it. I'd rather have you do that than fillet it.
 
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #13 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:31 AM »
Nice fish! it did look like a bit of a cross breed or something like that no blk dot on the dorsal, coloring on the operculum is a bit off too but takes nothing away from that pig!  good job!
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #14 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:58 AM »
thats a nice gill bud, thanks for posting!!!!!!

i know of a pond stocked with georgia giants but yet to get access :'( lol
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #15 on: Jan 22, 2008, 09:51 AM »
Quote from: fish boy on Jan 22, 2008, 08:31 AM
Nice fish! it did look like a bit of a cross breed or something like that no blk dot on the dorsal, coloring on the operculum is a bit off too but takes nothing away from that pig!  good job!

It's very possible it's a croos breed.  I'm not an expert in that area...but here is one of the redears I caught at the same location all within 1 hour.  It's just under 10 inches.


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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #16 on: Jan 22, 2008, 10:41 AM »

Kick Azz gill there bud, did it say " Onk-Onk " when you pulled it out of the hole....

Lake or private pond. Didn't think any Indiana lakes had them that big. Maybe redears, but not gill....
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #17 on: Jan 22, 2008, 11:40 AM »
Quote from: fish boy on Jan 22, 2008, 08:31 AM
.... no blk dot on the dorsal, coloring on the operculum is a bit off too but takes nothing away from that pig!  good job!

Allot of big gills have a faint grayish/blk dot on back of dorsal instead of a dark one. Hard to see the black area on the dorsal with the sun glare in 2nd pic and 1st picture it does looks gray. Sun glare makes the colors look lighter than it probably was. And if caught in a clear body of water, it would be very light.

Its not a redear, no red at all on the opercular flap(gillplate dot) and the shape of the fish is like a gill. Redears(shellcrackers) are more long than round and Redears have no hump on the head like a big gill. I would say its a big female, its more round in the middle and has the head hump right above the eyes.

Great fish Bret, not to many have the privilege to land a trophy gill. Any Taxidermist would have loved to mount it. Biggest Gill I ever personally mounted. Was a 11 3/4" hog, from a stone quarry east of Logan. It die from old age. seen it floating ontop water.

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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #18 on: Jan 22, 2008, 11:55 AM »
WOW nice hog. Keep catching em
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #19 on: Jan 22, 2008, 02:01 PM »
nice fish man, it would be nice to find more of those around here
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #20 on: Jan 22, 2008, 02:22 PM »
wow you have one lucky spot!!!
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #21 on: Jan 22, 2008, 02:41 PM »
Quote from: munskyman on Jan 21, 2008, 10:43 PM
Suuuweeey! Nice piggill and CPR, dude!

 This is a little off topic, but as I was reading this post I was listening to Matchbox Twenty- How Far We've Come and when your purple hippos hand came forward and stopped, it happened to be landing on the beat of the drum.
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #22 on: Jan 22, 2008, 03:00 PM »
Whew nice fish
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #23 on: Jan 22, 2008, 04:02 PM »
That's a biggin for sure. Congrats :bow: :bow: :bow:
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #24 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:10 PM »
Very Nice Gill !
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #25 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:22 PM »
awesome gill, any bigger and you would have to lip him through the hole ;D :tipup:
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #26 on: Jan 22, 2008, 08:40 PM »
Quote from: Buck1985 on Jan 22, 2008, 02:41 PM
This is a little off topic, but as I was reading this post I was listening to Matchbox Twenty- How Far We've Come and when your purple hippos hand came forward and stopped, it happened to be landing on the beat of the drum.


Dude....put down the Bong!!
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #27 on: Jan 22, 2008, 09:17 PM »
ROTFLMMFAO
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #28 on: Jan 22, 2008, 10:29 PM »
Quote from: river_scum on Jan 22, 2008, 08:58 AM
thats a nice gill bud, thanks for posting!!!!!!

i know of a pond stocked with georgia giants but yet to get access :'( lol

Don't get me started on the overrated gimmick of Georgia Giants!  :roflmao: Ken Holyoke is one hell of a promotor!  ;)2
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Re: Bruiser Bluegill
« Reply #29 on: Jan 23, 2008, 05:48 AM »
My Dad and I spent much of my childhood searching for "Konggill". Looks like you found him!

Nice job and thanks for keeping him in the gene pool!
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