That's not a bluegill, or at least not all bluegill. The opercular flap has a light margin and on bluegills it's dark to the edge. The color and light margins on the fins and opercular flap suggest green sunfish, but the body shape and mouth are wrong. Most likely a hybrid. Just my $0.02.

100 mile section of private coast full of stripers. lol
Idk, but I am jealous you met Hank Williams jr. (Yes, I love country music.)

Best song ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg&feature=related

First, purchase a section of flat land with an immense springhead which feeds a perfect 50-yard-wide trout stream of crystal-clear cold trout water in a bed of rocks.

Some place where it snows, beginning in late Fall.

A few deep holes and islands and wide shallow places.

Let the rest be a connected webwork of up-to 40 acre ponds, all connected by thoroughfares, all connected to the stream by irrigation channels and each other.

Some very deep and even more shallow.

Plant the shallow ones in Wild Rice and stock the rest with Bluegills and Largemouth Bass.

Plant Corn between all bodies of water.

Maybe some beans and some peanuts.

You never said anything about a budget...

We have a pond that we put a few bass and sunnys in and now they've multiplied like carzy and theres tons of fish. Its a very nice thing to have.

already have a private pond over at my dad's but, there could be a little expanding to do. ha I'd like it to be connected via clear water stream with no debris on the side and would like it to flow down in a U shape and snake back around then have a connecting lake stocked with say 5 muskies and more brown trout than you could believe. not to great I know but I'll stick with the pond I've got.

nothing big for me just a 2.5 acre pond would be fine stocked with bluegill,largemouth,catfish and maybe crappie

I'd have to get that little fella mounted just for the conversation piece it'd make. "That guy? Oh, that there is one of Hank Williams Jrs. fish. Caught this time..."

I'd take a 4.5 acre pond with largemouth, bluegill and cats that only a few friends and I fish out of a little john boat. Wait, that's exactly what I've got right behind my parent's house, five minutes from mine. Grew up on that pond, just don't get to fish as much as I used to!! My kids caught their first fish there. I'll be taking my buddy and his son to catch his first fish there. I'm so glad I didn't grow up in the city!! Wouldn't mind the chance to fish with Hank Jr though!!

your dream sounds about right, but I'd be happy with any body of water containing fish and drawing fowl to call my own :)

I missed a chance to meet Hank in 75. I was working for the Canadian Wildlife Service in the Northwest Territories doing a peregrine falcon population study. Hank was booked to hunt sheep with Perry Linton, the outfitter that had our Fixed wing contract. Hank fell off a mountain just before he made it to our outfitter. That being said I've got a 53 acre Wetland Reserve program beaver pond. My pond has been here for more than the 32 years that I've owned it. I watched a nice bass fly by yesterday in the talons of an osprey. I watch osprey fish pretty much every day in my pond. I've seen an adult bald eagle over the pond 6 times in the last two weeks. I'm hoping there's a new nest in the area. There's probably another 30 acres or so of water off my farm. I've never caught any bass over 4lbs or so. I've got bass, bullheads, and other fish, plus geese and ducks down there. I shoot deer, turkey, and ducks and geese. Having your own pond and your own land is great. It's for sale for the right price.

i wouldnt mind having a 8-10 acre pond with a couple of islands on it maybe a rock bank or two

Who cares what kind of fish it is. You caught it in Hank's private pond.