Do you love big bluegill?
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Randy Budzynski
- 50, Male
- East Lansing, MI
- United States
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very good! Nice!
Hey, if I saw a kid walking down the street with a crappie like that I would take it from him and run to the nearest baitshop and register it for a citation!
Naww, just kiddin. Great fish, guys!
nice crappie
Yeah thanks Jason. That mess of fish came from Houghton Lake in Michigan. Caught those a few years back and the fishing there has gone down hill some. I do have a website if you would like to check it out it's masterfishtaxidermy.com Do you have any…
From a fellow fish taxidermist... Excellent work! Love the goldish green colors!.. Very nice. I've got a couple of mounts mixed in with my photos if you care to see them.
You know what's funny...
I was looking at the thumbnails of recently added photos and went right by this one because I thought it was real! Excellent job. Five stars.
Nice batch of fish. Do you have a web site for your taxidermy?
this is my fav too
Awesome video Erik. Looks like a blast.....
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- Largest bluegill ever caught?
- 11 1/4" 24oz. Grayling area. Largest Shellcracker was 11 1/2"from Duck Lake and was released.
- Favorite place to catch bluegill?
- Houghton Lake and Hurron River chain of lakes in Michigan. Also some lakes in the Grayling area in northern Michigan that produce some dandy gills. One is a designated trout lake and the other is owned by the state of Michigan, catch and release only, artificial lures only and only open June-August. Lots of effort to fish this lake but well worth it. Gills run from 7-11+" Large Mouth Bass range from 14-20" and some of the bigest Pumkinseeds I have ever seen. A buddy of mine Ralph caught a Pumpkinseed a few years back that must have went 11" and that is huge for a Seed, will try to find pic of it and post soon.
- Do you have a pond? If so, describe it.
- No but my buddy Mark does and he has raised some very nice Bluegills and Large Mouth. Mark is the friend of mine that caught Bubba The Big Boy.
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- At 2:03pm on March 8, 2009,
Bruce Yinger said…
- Randy,
Sounds like we have fished some of the same waters for panfish.I live in Wyandotte and like to fish the canals and backwater areas of lks.Erie , St. Clair and the Detroit river. I used to fish out on the Portage lake Huron river chain , the traffic on the road is as bad as the boat traffic on the lake
- At 6:03pm on March 7, 2009,
Jim Gronaw said…
- Hey Randy...nice bunch of pictures, man! And some superfine taxidermy work to boot. Do you do replicas or skin mounts? Like you. I too am finding that some big bluegill water is often small, public lakes or community owned ponds that are very much overlooked by the mainstream, yet have some magnum weight gills in them. See ya Jim
- At 1:41pm on March 5, 2009,
Ray Danders said…
- I considered Ed a good friend and used to buy all my tackle way back when he had his bait shop in the garage in front of his house. If I recall Ed had one of your stringers of fish in his shop.
Anyway I always liked Ed and wonder what he is doing now. Last I heard he was divorced and lost the shop.
- At 9:12am on February 27, 2009,
Kiana said… - Welcome to the big bluegill pond, enjoy 'fishing' for tips, photos, stories, and great people to share it all with!
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Ditto, but they shut up after going with or eating the results.
Aw shucks there I go making a fool out of myself on line again. Sorry about the whole rooked thing, I saw that was on a different post of one of your pics Zach. I'm a little paranoid about Google, so thats where that came from. I've gotta work on my…
thats a big ole chinqupin
My stomach usually doesn't give the scales enough time to join in on the action though.
They are a very different fish I'll say that. The best I have figured so far is that they like the bottom and live bait, not to say that they wont strike an artificial, it takes some real skill though from what I can gather and I really admire those…
I was kind of worried about that, but I have seen some variations of Hybrids look this way, or at least that is what was posted on the internet.
We always called these black pearch.
To be honest I do not think the Green Sunfish have the yellow bel…
I am still trying to figure out how to fish for Redear. I have not had much luck with them. The seem to be pretty smart.
Do you have tricks you would like to share on catching these guys?
Did you happen to get the weight of any of these fish?
They fight just like a big bluegill. I am told you can eat them but haven't tried yet. The ones we caught today went to a friend who has a pet shop. I wouldn't mind trying them though. They are local to south Texas and I would imagine that they eat…
Oops sorry Zach I forgot about need a trout stamp on your license.
Bank access has improved since they began stocking trout back in the late 90's. As of now State regs require a trout license to fish it during the season ($10). If you plan to launch a boat you will need a permit. Not sure about other options as far…
About the only time you can fish Pawhuska from the bank is when they drop the lake for trout season. There is no cost to fish it.
I know, I will have to try it out this fall when the temps drop a bit. Can you fish it from the bank at all, and is there a cost to fish it?
Oh brother, Zach living in Northeast Oklahoma and having not fished this lake before......Let me tell you.
A spring fed 90 Acres of Heaven.
The wildlife department comes in and stocks trout every other week from November until the end of March (bl…
Cedric you are truly gifted to be capable of putting things like this into the words they way that you do. I've been reading your posts, you have just gained a huge fan. Cant wait to hear more from you!
I have yet to fish lake Pawhuska, is it a nice lake? Did they stock everything in it?
So how do they fight and can you eat them?
almost has a knot head
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