Sunnies sitting on their beds

It has been so long since I went after them, I don't remember when to start looking for them.

Its usually about the first week of june here in southern mn

Just don't wear a shirt that you mind getting milt stained. Those big bull bluegill will spray all over you.

Keith

You would too with a hook in your lip!!!

2-3 weeks here in MS.

A learned fisherman knows to point the stream away, when removing the hook. Preferably at the fishing partner at the other end of the boat or dock.....lol As far as timing, last week of May first week of June here in northern lower Michigan.

Early June

But it varies

Where I am at I find them around Father's Day or sometimes a week later depending on how fast it warms up. I am in central MN. Just keep looking until you find them. I start looking in early June when I am bowfishing for carp

I've always hit em when the lilacs are in bloom.

White bass.

Same time we see them on beds at the cabin in the Aitkin area

The gills move to their shallow water beds when the water temps reach the low 60's

Walleyes in the St.Clair river..

Memorial Day is best here in Pa.

That was the golden answer. Muddy is in the town after the next town over from me. I just could not remember. My friend who keeps track of all of this stuff moved away and so now I have to think for myself.

I grew up and fish in central MN. I am not a fish expert but almost all fish move to shallower water to spawn depending water temp not time of the year. Take a few years ago our lake had ice still on fishing opener in mid may. That pushes all spawning except northern back. My experience is crappies take mid 50 degree to 60 degree water to spawn and sunnies are there right at the end of the crappie spawn so around 60 degrees. Probably up to 65 degrees and then they are gone. That is my experience on the half dozen lakes I fish on. Down south I am sure that things are way different.

Schmattz

One thing I really miss. Light weight fly rod and some poppers. Pair of old tenner shoes and old blue jeans and just wade along the shoreline casting to the nests. Was told “When the aspen leaves are the size of a beaver’s ear” is the right time

Can't see thru the ice here yet.

I have a cabin in Phillips, WI and they are usually on the beds around Memorial Day or a little later. It depends on the lake. I've been fly fishing them on the bids for over 50 years, definitely my favorite way to fish them. I used poppers years ago and now use sponge spiders or wet flys.

Good time

If bluegills were any bigger , they would be extinct .
Best eating fish for their size IMHO .

I don't know if the ice will off by then!?!?...

This is what they look like: I photographed these whil fishing with my grandkids there.
Hard to see them but there are a few on the beds in the photo.



With the late spring we are having it may be later than usual this year. Depends on how much and how fast the water warms after ice out.