May is when the bluegills on Alabama's Pickwick Lake really turn on.
It's an outstanding time to catch 20 to 30 sunfish for the table in a
couple hours of fishing in the early morning or late evening. Typically,
we catch filleting-sized bream - bluegills weighing between 1/2 to 3/4
pound - with redear weighing up to 14 ounces. These big fish produce a
huge filet. The latter species is the redear sunfish, more commonly
known as the shellcracker. 100 fish days are common."
Donny Lowrie
Fisheries Scientist,
Tennessee Valley Authority
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The above lake is where I learned to fly fish. Dad bought me one of
those boxed $10 Japanese made bamboo fly rods and there began my love
affair with fly fishing. I distinctly remember driving through the
Mayfly hatches on the way to Pickwick. They were so thick that we'd
have to stop several times to clean them off. But all that was
forgotton when we got on the water with Mayflies dropping all around us
with the bluegills going ' pop, pop, pop' as they sucked the flies
under. The first time we went we caught 116 bluegills - bream. I'll
never forget the number, for I was the one saddled with the job of
cleaning them! Trout fishing with flies is great, but you haven't lived
until you experience a Mayfly hatch on Pickwick. Wet flies, dry flies,
popping bugs, it makes no difference to the gills.
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JIMMY D. MOORE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited,
Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA.
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