Bluegill BEATDOWN on Harney Pond (PART 2) 

We make it a point to do a bonsai trip every few months if scheduling permits. I'll be back on the river here soon, actually. Water is down significantly from January, so I'm hoping we keep getting afternoon storms cause we need it bad. Beds should be looking real nice right about now, I'd think!

@Brent Allen Outdoors yeah, it should pick up. I had an old timer years ago fishing Lake Rousseau. Tell me something I'll never forget, and it works very well. He told me to follow my nose. I said, What do you mean? He said when you're going along in your boat and you smell something really fishy, turn around and keep zig zaggin back and forth and you'll follow that fishy smell right to the shell cracker bed. And it works.. it's the fish throwing off that oily smell when bedding.

My Dad also taught me the same thing! Admittedly I can't always smell them, but I do every once in a while. Now I just cheat and use side imaging haha. The smell method is real, though!

Thank you for watching!

Get you some fish 🐠😅

Thank you!

That's a Catch Counter. I did a full review on it if you'd like more info: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBTXk8gl-KE.html

Depends on the size of the cricket, but I'll usually go throw the back of the abdomen and up through the thorax.

Typically when we get a big mess of em like this we fillet, just cause it’s quick and easy. But I like to leave about 15 or so to gut and scale for frying whole. Some good eatin

Those are Tilapia. They are decent eating. We typically will fillet the bluegills like normal, but I also enjoy them deheaded, scaled, gutted and fried whole.

Mostly east

I’m using the cheapo ozark 1 1/4-inch plastic bobbers you can get at WalMart. They come in a 6 pack for like $1.60.

Mostly crickets and grass shrimp

Florida!

I’ve got a Cichlid trip coming up in a couple weeks! 🎣🎣