Show bluegill hooked on artificial fly found as sporty as the black bass when the average fisherman thinks of game fish he usually associates the term with stream trout or black bass the so called pan fishes of our inland waters blue gills perch cr crap apples pies and rock bass are essentially food fishes to him possessing very little fighting spirit or gameness writes albert stoll jr in the detroit news still many have watched families fishing from docks and out of flat bottomed rowboats and noticed that all thoroughly enjoyed hauling in wriggling perch and side sailing bluegills blue gills they appeared to find them sporty especially the children and best of all a toothsome sweet fish for dinner many of us can find sporty qualities in most any species of rish while others must either play a large brook trout on a dry fly or hook into aiato a record tuna or sailfish to get a thrill but ounce for ounce a one pound bluegill hooked on an artificial fly and light fly rod Is just as sporty as a six pound small mouthed black bass on the end of the line no trout fly fisherman ever experienced more excitement when he hooked into an oversized rainbow or brown than the pan fish angler when he fights a big bluegill on light tackle this type of 0 fishing is becoming popular there was a time when the bluegill fisherman used nothing but crickets grasshoppers and worms as bait fishing in deep water but today he flicks a fly in the shallows as he would for bass and generally returns to shore with a ine fine string |