George went fishing with some friends of mine. They limited out on some pretty respectable gills. Emmett wasn't with, but jumped in for the picture. 8 inch Leatherman for reference.

Geez those are some dandy Bull Gills!

Em are some dandy’s sam

I'm not great with sunfish species. I occasionally hear the term "shellcracker" applied to what other folks call "red ears" or "pumpkin seeds". They're all the same to me. The boys did catch a couple today.

They’re all gills to me

You have a limit on blue gill?

Awesome.Great picture as well

Mighty fine eaten right there and fun to catch.

Yes sir

Nice

Those are dandies!!

Magnums.

20 sunnies per person. Unless it’s a special management lake where they’re trying to bring up the quality of size and many of those lakes it’s 5 or 10. Happy trapping! ScottW

I'm not always a fan of some of our limits, but this is one that I'm actually in favor of. Any lake around here with decent panfish gets hit really hard by folks that come from south of us. If we didn't have limits, and especially the special limits that Scott mentioned on our good panfish lakes, I doubt we'd be able to catch a cutting size bluegill anywhere.

We were on vacation one year in Florida when I was a kid and my brother and I found a pond that was loaded with those huge shellcrackers. We thought we were onto the biggest bluegills anyone had ever seen.

Those are great bluegill.

In Ohio, especially in ponds, bluegill have a tendency to overpopulate. Except on a very few lakes, there is no limit. I know some ponds where you can literally fill buckets with bluegill, with very few of decent size.

Keith

Anything 9 inches and above is a big bluegill in my area. Nice catch!

Best eaters...noce

Yum !

Those are certainly some dandies

Makes my mouth water! LOL

Prime catfish bait.

Lol. I thought the same thing. Unfortunately we don't have any big cats close by. Illegal bait for me anyway.

Only ifn ya get caught lol

Nice

Same here. Theres a lake 15 minutes from me that kicks out 8-9 regularly and i pulled a 10+ out last fall. Id like to think I didnt catch the biggest. Need to get over there this week. All the guys in this state spend hundreds of dollars every weekend chasing our state fish. Too much work and not enough relaxing for me-give me a day chasing gills, crappie or catfish any day over walleye.

Those are some nice gills.