Saturday 6/14 we fished Lake Jackson. Upon arrival at 6:30am there were already 20 boats set up on the community holes. With 6 boats within 50-200ft radius, we managed to get our "secret" spot luckily, and quietly anchored and spread our baits to "claim" our area. There was quite a bit of strategy between the boats, some opted to anchor their bait spread onto the offshore beds, but most opted for the protected inshore beds that were in the maidencane. The big gills and huge shell crackers were moving in and off the beds, and the adjacent feeding grounds during the morning lunar feeding time and tapered off 40 minutes after the end. There was a trickle of big shell crackers constantly feeding until the noon feeding time when they really turned on again. It was a fun sight to see, 20 boats within 300 yds of each other and everyone catching. Those that werent, were hunting for a new fishing spot within the 300yd area. The big blue gills went on bed offshore at the noon feeding time from my observations. On the day, we culled and kept about 40 big shell crackers and blue gill. The biggest shell crackers were huge, and just shy of 12" and 1.5lbs
Today 6/16 we fished Lake Iamonia. We had heard through the grape vine that people were catching the big bluegills at Iamonia again so we planned a short trip for this morning. Morning solunar feeding time was 8:30-10:30 and it seemed to be almost spot on. We caught nearly all our big bluegills during this time. We fished under the trees in the sinkhole area and caught a couple big bluegills before we headed in. We caught about 6-7 big blue gills in our short trip. Most of what we caught were quality blue gills, and they were dark. They were on the edges of the pads and some were deep in the pads and difficult to extract. Our biggest blue gill was caught in the pads closest to open water. The bream are bedding under the trees at certain times I was told while we were out. Crappie are still being caught trolling I was also told at the fish camp.
Lake Iamonia Blue gill
