A bluegill pushing 2 pounds nearly overlaps a commode lid and, yes, you might want to put that beast on the reel.
Big bluegills. That’s an oxymoron, right? Like “jumbo shrimp”?
If this seems like a joke, it’s probably because your first fish, like mine, was a worm-caught bluegill not much bigger than a soda cracker. We were thrilled, of course, but our initial excitement began to wane after it became apparent that there was an eager and seemingly inexhaustible supply of them. Not surprisingly, we soon moved on to bigger and more challenging species. Even so, I have occasionally wondered how things might have turned out if that first bluegill had...