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How to catch bigger blue gills in spring?

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by Bob

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

Use bigger bait? 😉

Bluegill King Loc: Batesville Indiana

All right somebody please share this information with me about how to Catch bigger bluegill and more bluegill in the spring in South East Alabama

E.pa.al Loc: Martin's Creek

I dont fish for gills that often,when I take my daughter I put a larger beetle spin on for her
Seems to keep the smaller gills away
Hope this helps

Ben Bragg Loc: Dayton Ohio

Small bluegill are kind of a nuicence. So
Some lakes just don’t have a good population of big hills or they are few and far between
If you are lucky enough to have a place that has big ones . Try fishing deeper at the edges of weed lines. Sometimes you have to get under the small ones. Might try no float with a 1 /32 oz jig head and your choice of bait. Waxworms. Crickets. Red worms.
Lest it sink and slow drag it. If small ones get the bait before it gets down, a 3/16 oz dropshot with a size 8 hook 12 inches or so up will do the job getting down faster
By deep we may only be talking 6-8 ft
This is pre spawn I’m talking here

During actual spawn find thick Lilly pads and drop a float into pockets in the pads. Or clear your own pockets with a rake and come back later. Like half an hour. Hang your bait about a foot below the float. Believe it or not an old fashioned cane pole is very effective and efficient doing tjis.

Bigger lures has been suggested and sometimes this works too.
I’d try both.

In the summer , think deep. I catch studs 25 ft down. Wood and rock cover are what you are looking for.

Hope this helps. If they are there , they can be caught.

Bluegill King Loc: Batesville Indiana

Thanks very much for the information I will try these things as soon as I get to Alabama any More information you want give I will appreciate it

Bigmark123

Go to places like Chocolatta Bay, Bay Grass, Little or Big Battie. Fish in the afternoons on the south wind 3 days before and 3 days after a full moon. You can drift over the grass beds for bass as well using Sallies with pork frogs. Start when it gets warm. March-April...May. Fish duck blinds with crickets for blue gills . Fish Buggy whips with worms for shellcrackers. Creeks, troll and fish structure until you find a bed.

BM

Bluegill King Loc: Batesville Indiana

Thanks I know where that is I’m not familiar with the term Buggy whips with worms if you could define that a little more for me would help

Bigmark123

A Buggy Whip is a grass that is round and about 4-5' tall. Worms are the things that are found in the ground or local bait shops. Shell Crackers bite from the bottom up. The cork will go flat before going under.

M