I am so glad you did this blog. I would rather spend my day catching blue gill and other pan fish than anything else. I don't know if its because they are easy to catch but I find them endlessly amusing. The more stories the better

When I take my 2 year daughter fishing, we always target bluegill because they are easy to catch and keep her interested, but I think I like seeing that little red and yellow bobber go down more than she does. She (like all kids) eventually gets bored fishing before long and takes to playing in the moss at the edge of the bank. My chance to do some bass fishing always gets spent sitting my 6'4 inch 310 lb body indian style on the dock clutching a Disney princess fishing pole and smiling like a little kid everytime that bobber starts to dip. Still a kid at heart I guess.

Sorry, should be my 3 year old daughter, and no I didn't forget how old my kid is. Just don't let my wife read this :)

I have a light weight bluegill spinning rod along with my bass reels.When the bluegill are biting, so are the bass. I don't want to miss none of the action.

That looks like a good mess!

In the middle of nice summer days, when the local trout waters get filled with canoes, I grab my 3 wt or an ultralight and head to a remote catch and release lake. Season is only 2-1/2 months and even the gills are catch and release - many are quite large. Just a blast to catch.

This past Saturday ended my wait to go brim fishing. The past couple of years about the first week or two of may can be dedicated to brim fishing. There are a bunch of canals on the Pamlico river that stay fresh until late summer despite the proximity to saltwater and get stacked with big bluegills. This past weekend when I checked under my dock the males were dishing out nests. I couldn't get to my poppers fast enough.

Very rarely do I ever.... although I enjoy catching them and have fun when I do fish for them, I don't really see a challenge in catching them. I like to have a challenge when I fish, not a guarantee everytime. ALthough I will fish for fish like bluegills every now and then, I don't plan on doing it too much.

Lately it seems so many people with ponds have done so little bluegill fishing that the gill population is so high they all seem stunted to me. No good size ones at all. Most conservation agencies will come out and advise a landowner of proper fish harvest to obtain quality size gills or bass.

I managed to sneak out of the house last Sunday afternoon with a fly rod and worked a neighborhood pond for panfish. I was the only angler among the group I was with to catch anything, hitting mostly bluegills and sunfish, and had a ball! Sometimes its just fun to catch fish, and when they're biting, there's lots of fun to be had with pan fish.

It's ironic that I read this when I did. I've been hardcore on bass and the occasional catfish for the past few years. But my girlfriends parents just moved onto a secluded stocked lake with nothing but a bunch of rich people that don't fish it living on it. When I saw all the bluegill beds off the dock I grabbed my ultralight the next day. So for the past 2 weeks my girlfriend and her little sister have had a blast learning how to catch all the bluegill and chinquapin. And man are these things huge.. the size of nice crappie. And you should've seen the look on my girlfriends face when she hooked into a 12 pound catfish that took the better part of 15 minutes to get in on my 4 foot ultralight with a number 2 bream hook haha.

i dont fish for blue gills. where i live they dont get big at all so ijust catch them when fishin for somtin else and once in a while i get a decent enough one to eat

quite often on a local pond that is just packed with 10 inchers, I take a fly rod and just seem to find schools of them but often just do catch and release.

I think that I am going to start fishing for gills more often. I have a 2 year old that I would like to introduce to fishing. No better way than chasing gills