| Show bluegill hooked on artificial fly found as sporty as the mhd 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 sunfishes sun fishes perch crappies crappier crap pies and rock bass are essentially food fishes to him possessing very little fighting spirit or gameness writes AV 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 salling sailing bluegills blue gills they appeared to find them sporty especially the children and best of all a tooth toothsome sweet fish for dinner many of us can find sporty i ties in most any species of fish while others must either play a large brook trout on a dry fly or hook into a record tuna or sailfish to get a thrill but ounce tor for ounce a one pound bluegill hooked booked on an artificial fly and light fly by 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 tie be I 1 hooked into an oversized rainbow or brown than the pan fish angler langler when he fights a big blue bluegill gillon on light tackle this type of fishing ts is becoming popular there was a time when the th e bluegill fisherman used nothing but crickets grasshoppers and worms as bait fishing in deep water but today he fie flicks flucksa sa a fly in the shallows as he would for bassand bass and generally returns to shore with a fine string |
