What a better way to spend halloween weekend than in search of some pumpkin sized bluegills!
I met up with a couple of other spooky looking Dudes, Crappie Keith, and Buckshot Greg, and we hit the water. We went over to the deepest area in the lake, around 24-28 feet. We soon graphed fish around 2 feet off the bottom.
Greg got his fish on a northland Hexi fly, CK did well on his T.h.e. Jig.
I got many of my biggest gills on a flutter bug jig tipped with three waxworms under a thill center slider float set about 2-3 ft off the bottom.
I also got lots of fish vertical jigging with my new Thorne Brothers quiver stick, which was a blast! I even got a pike on that tiny micro rod! For jigging i was using a Lindy fatboy tipped with a waxworm. We got loads of big bluegills, many over 10 inches. I got my biggest gill I ever measured and Photographed, a 11 incher that I bet was well over a pound!
Thanks guys for the great trip, my best halloween ever!
http://mtbucket.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloween-big-bluegill-frenzy.html


Hmmmm, looks like the great pumpkin!



Buckshot boats a nice slab


and a huge gill!


CK and some good Bull gills





More scarey monster Sunfish!








I even managed to boat a pike with my tiny TB rod!



as you can see in the pike pic, the "force" was with me!

THE BIG ONE!!!

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Great report and pics Mike! Looks like that Quiverstick worked wonders out there!

Here are Mike's last two pictures...

Awesome report Mike. That pic with the pike and the quiverstick gives people a good idea of what that rod is capable of.