Panfish Pics

[Barbelboy]

Took the kids out. I usually don't keep many fish, actually these are the first i've filleted in a year, but my wife put in a request to actually eat some fish. My little helpers had a ball reeling in fish, watching a little bit of iPad and generally making a terrible mess out of my boat. (ever seen a banana stepped on in boat carpet, ugh). Even managed to snag 6 nice white crappies.

 

Edited August 15, 2019 by Barbelboy

[Barbelboy]

a pair of nice blue gills from July up north

[BIGFISH.JZ]

I've caught plenty of bigger panfish, but none that were feistier than these!

[poliwhirl18]

Impressive haul! 

[Borch]

Got this 10 1/2" gill working a mayfly tungsten fly.  Love it when you set the hook and the fish doesn't move an inch. 

[Tom Sawyer]

Dandy fish Jeff! Now that shoreline is definitely recognizable

Edited January 2, 2020 by Tom Sawyer

[Rick G]

A few big ones from this last week. Like Borch, I used the mayfly with tungsten jig  to fool  these fish

[eyeguy 54]

Nice fishies guys! The last month Has been a lot of fun.  Lot of nice fish came topside and swam back down to grow bigger. 

[leech~~]

Rick and eyeguy, lots of good size house out there. How thick was the ice you found? 

[AlwaysFishing23]

If only my last month of fishing has been that good! I’d call it total opposite of that. Wondering the same here! Yesterday there was a small lake I took a snowmobile ride to and was 2 half tons out there. Not more than 7-10” of ice. Half of that is crappy ice. 

[IceHawk]

25 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

Rick and eyeguy, lots of good size house out there. How thick was the ice you found? 

Leech its 10-12 inches  in that area few 1/2 tons starting to show up. By end of next week I suspect a strong outpouring of vehicles and the bite will slowly subside. 

[eyeguy 54]

1 hour ago, leech~~ said:

Rick and eyeguy, lots of good size house out there. How thick was the ice you found? 

12ish didn’t see Chris post. 

Edited January 5, 2020 by eyeguy 54

[Rick G]

Suspended 10ft  off bottom, over basin area. 4mm black tungsren with white finnesse style body

[Wanderer]

It’s so pretty it looks mounted already 

[Rick]

19 hours ago, Rick G said:

Suspended 10ft  off bottom, over basin area. 4mm black tungsren with white finnesse style body

 

Good grief that's a nice speck. Your photographer took an amazing shot too!

[eyeguy 54]

man did we drill again today.

[eyeguy 54]

Future monster if the catfish don’t eat it. Lol

[leech~~]

3 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

man did we drill again today.

 

How many holes today?  By the looks of the size, may be you should have stayed home?

[Tom Sawyer]

Gander Mt red nymph did em in today .....

[Rick]

@Tom Sawyer, love those bright orange belly bluegills. Nice pic.

[eyeguy 54]

Camera got a workout again. Almost all were released today. Kept a couple fir the smoker. 

[eyeguy 54]

22-25 feet and most  fish were 6 to 8 off bottom.  4 mm black widow maker tungsten with slug bug was great and also a newer beaver tail type bait from panfish plastics with a white striped jig can’t remember name. Key was the very very slow cadence again. 

[Wanderer]

Nice fish!  Seems I’m hearing more comments lately about finicky fish.  That slow cadence is a good thing to remember.

[eyeguy 54]

sure is.  another thing that worked today was to go below them, then slowly come back above, stop then wiggle. crazy fish that's for sure. the smaller ones hammered it normal but the bigger ones were tricky.

[IceHawk]

4 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

22-25 feet and most  fish were 6 to 8 off bottom.  4 mm black widow maker tungsten with slug bug was great and also a newer beaver tail type bait from panfish plastics with a white striped jig can’t remember name. Key was the very very slow cadence again. 

M & B jig either come with teaser tail or you can buy  the teaser tails. 

[deere322]

Caught these nice gills a few weeks ago down in SW Minnesota on a farm pond.

Sorry no public access...…………..

[Rick]

@eyeguy 54 & @deere322

 

Outstanding crappie photo and nice bull gills.

 

Where did you get these babies?

[deere322]

1 hour ago, Rick said:

@eyeguy 54 & @deere322

 

Outstanding crappie photo and nice bull gills.

 

Where did you get these babies?

On a farm pond near Jeffers, Mn.

[Mike89]

2 hours ago, Rick said:

@eyeguy 54 & @deere322

 

Outstanding crappie photo and nice bull gills.

 

Where did you get these babies?

out behind the petrolliffs!!!!  bad spelling!!  but just thought that was funny!!!

[monstermoose78]

4 hours ago, Rick said:

@eyeguy 54 & @deere322

 

Outstanding crappie photo and nice bull gills.

 

Where did you get these babies?

Out of an ice hole