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| Beautiful female pumpkinseed fell for the Gulp! Redworm. |
Okay, I know that this post won't get anybody's blood up too much, but I just wanna give a quick shout-out to the unheralded pumpkinseed sunfish and close kin...the Pumpkingill. The pumpkingill is actually a naturalized hybrid between a pumpkinseed and a bluegill, and some of them can get pretty big. We have been blessed to find a small local public venue that has a abundance of seeds, gills and the PG's. Matt and I have been catching a ton of these the past few weeks...nearly 400, and all have been released. Live worms below bobbers work great, but we have recently switched gears to Berkley Gulp! Redworms impaled on a #8 Aberdeen hook below a bobber fished slowly through the vast spawning areas of these fish. Check out some of these fish...
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| Plus-sizes male Pumpkingill...great fighters! |
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| Matt with daily double of male bluegill and male pumpkingill. |
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| Matt with a colossal male PG...what a fish! |
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| Spawning PG in superb condition. |
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| Major-league gills are also in the mix. |
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| Ten-inch Pumpkingill on a live worm. |
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| Bona fide pumpkinseed, and a beauty! | |
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These are just a few shots of the many we have taken the last part of May. We found a large spawning area where there are literally hundreds, if not a few thousand, big 8 to 10 inch and larger sunfish like these. It's a small public venue, and thus subject to overharvest and that's why we keep things quiet. Some waters are just too fragile to tell the world, and, BTW, this is the internet! Most folks fishing here, however, seem more concerned about catching the over abundant sub-legal largemouth bass. To each their own.
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| God's handiwork and detail. |
I am often reminded of God's beauty and His incredible attention to detail in all the creatures of the earth that He has made.Most folks would just call them sunfish and go on with it, but to me, these creatures are stunning in their own right. Whether pumpkinseeds, bluegills or pumpkingill hybrids, they were all ordained by His hand and are part of His glorious plan for us to enjoy. As it clearly points out in Genesis 1:22...
AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. GOD BLESSED THEM AND SAID 'BE FRUITFUL
AND INCREASE IN NUMBER, AND FILL THE WATER IN THE SEAS...'
The next time you go fishing, remember who created the fish you so love to catch!
Good morning Mr Gronaw, I don't usually leave comments, but I wanted to say thank you for your blog posts. The fishing info/pics are great, but I love it that you end posts with the gospel. We serve a great God, who loves us enough to give us things here in this life to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather catch a bluegill than any other fish, and that led me to bigbluegill.com, which in turn led to reading all the posts I could find about your grass shrimp jig. Googling about that led me to your blog. I've been tying something kinda similar to that for a few years now. Tipped with a mealworm or wax worm under a float, it has been a dynamite combo on the panfish here in AZ. I don't fish with anything else.
Anyways, again thank you for the blog posts.
1 Cor 15:57 "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Thanks Brandon so much for those encouraging words and glad you enjoy the blog. Indeed, we serve an awesome God and are blessed to enjoy His creation daily.
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