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They are good. But, too small to mess with.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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Maybe not but I enjoy catching them a lot more and don’t mind cleaning them near as much. I don’t guess I have as sensitive a palette as others when it comes to eating fish. To me crappie, perch, blues, channels, and bass smaller than about 3lbs all taste about the same. Flatheads and Walleye/Saugeye I can tell the difference from the others and prefer as I find them much cleaner tasting as well as being much firmer.
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I'd rather eat saltwater fish than those bony Bluegills.
One shot, one kill........ It saves a lot of ammo!
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I'd rather eat bluegills. There's a lake around here that grow them smallish crappie size. We target those and let the pike have the small ones. Don't need to dust them with anything before frying.
Fun to catch with a fly rod particularly if they are willing to take a popper among the weeds.
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Be nice to know where you are doing that, GW and what you are catching them on. Southern Oregon, and I've caught them mostly on jigs or a worm under a bobber.
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I would trade halibut for bluegill lb for lb
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Too small even for bait. ![[Linked Image]](https://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/BigButtJune162012.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/Cadeling8-11_zps90af899a.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/8-16ling2_zps6488a93d.jpg) P Thanks for the invite..... 
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I would trade halibut for bluegill lb for lb I’ll clean the halibut if you’ll clean the perch. Bet I’m done first. 
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Be nice to know where you are doing that, GW and what you are catching them on. Southern Oregon, and I've caught them mostly on jigs or a worm under a bobber. Thanks, GW. River or lake? Its fun to put a split shot about 4 in above a long shank worm hook and slowly hop a piece of worm back to you.
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I would trade halibut for bluegill lb for lb I’ll clean the halibut if you’ll clean the perch. Bet I’m done first. No doubt. I would rather eat the perch though.
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The fillets are great fried but for a different treat drop skinned fillets in a pot of boiling water full of shrimp boil. Use a basket to keep from bustin them up. Only takes about 20 seconds. Then lay them on ice to cool and eat with cocktail sauce. Betern' shrimp. If you don't feel like filleting, the whole deheaded fish is easy to eat anyway. Scale, cut off the head and gut. Leave the dorsal fins on the top. After they fry you can pull the dorsal fins out in one bunch and then poke your fork prongs in the fin hole and the fillet comes away easily. Actually get more meat than filleting them. God only knows how many bluegills me and my buddies caught in our high school years. One of them could fly fish and he and I would just wear their little fish butts out with a #8 or #6 black gnat. Little poppers were fun too but the black sinking bug was the real killer. We'd find the beds in May and fish out the biggest bedders then come back later and there'd be more. Made a milk run around the beds for as long as we wanted to fish and kept all we wanted to clean. 8' or 8 1/2' fiberglass rods, I forget which. If I tried swinging one of them all day now my arm would kink up and fall off.
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I would trade halibut for bluegill lb for lb I’ll clean the halibut if you’ll clean the perch. Bet I’m done first. They have halibut in Oklahoma?
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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They don't but I get one decent one and they are in it all year to catch up.
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Slit the belly, cut the head off, put em some flour with a bit of salt and pepper, fry em up. Good eats, anything bigger than a hand always tastes muddy.
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The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
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Never had a muddy tasting bluegill...….Did you cook it in mud?
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GW,
If you got a fly rod it will make your bluegill catching a thousand times more enjoyable.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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The fillets are great fried but for a different treat drop skinned fillets in a pot of boiling water full of shrimp boil. Use a basket to keep from bustin them up. Only takes about 20 seconds. Then lay them on ice to cool and eat with cocktail sauce. Betern' shrimp. If you don't feel like filleting, the whole deheaded fish is easy to eat anyway. Scale, cut off the head and gut. Leave the dorsal fins on the top. After they fry you can pull the dorsal fins out in one bunch and then poke your fork prongs in the fin hole and the fillet comes away easily. Actually get more meat than filleting them. God only knows how many bluegills me and my buddies caught in our high school years. One of them could fly fish and he and I would just wear their little fish butts out with a #8 or #6 black gnat. Little poppers were fun too but the black sinking bug was the real killer. We'd find the beds in May and fish out the biggest bedders then come back later and there'd be more. Made a milk run around the beds for as long as we wanted to fish and kept all we wanted to clean. 8' or 8 1/2' fiberglass rods, I forget which. If I tried swinging one of them all day now my arm would kink up and fall off. Good stuff, shootem.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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If you don't feel like filleting, the whole deheaded fish is easy to eat anyway. Scale, cut off the head and gut. Leave the dorsal fins on the top. After they fry you can pull the dorsal fins out in one bunch and then poke your fork prongs in the fin hole and the fillet comes away easily. Actually get more meat than filleting them. That is the only way I have ever seen them done. Seems to me it would be tedious to attempt to fillet a sunfish unless it was a huge one and therefore lead to the question "are bluegills worth messing with to eat".
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Bluegills are excellent table fare.
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