Facts: The Bluegill

Quick facts about this easy to catch freshwater fish! The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus, sunfish, bream, sun perch, brim). Bluegill facts! They are even featured in Animal Crossing.

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[owenkedas]

Bluegill are interesting little fish. I have a 10 gallon aquarium with 4 little baby bluegill. Three are the little baby fry, and one is a bit larger, a young adult. I actually caught them with a buttefly net about 7 - 8 months, and I started out with 18 little bluegills. The bigger one decided to be the courageous one of the grop, because he went up to where I was on the concrete pipe, and he came over, so I started slowly bringing the net behind him. He turned around, and swam into the broken butterfly net! (The handle broke off, so I had to hold it by the rim.) They LOVE Brine shrimp! Many fisherman are always saying that bluegill are stupid, but their just very curious fish, like the one that swam into my net. Whenever I catch one, and I don't unhook him in time, then he dies, and I always feel awful about it.

[AGDinCA]

OK, I'm not going to lie... this particular episode got me in the feels.

My grampa has been passed away for several years now but one of his favorite things to do in world was to go fishing at his local lake, catch as many bluegill as he could,
bring them back to my grandma (who was not very thrilled about it) and let her cook up these little bluegill chips - essentially because the fish are so small, they don't make for a very large bite! LOL

Listening to this episode made me miss him a lot. ☹

[intheshellify]

Best fish to teach a newbie the basics of fishing.

[johnwick-iiil]

The boy looked into the shallow water where he saw several bluegills clearing out nesting spots on the lake bottom. They had removed all debris, and were washing the sand in their mouths, untill only a clean circle remained. When finished each fish began a hypnotic dance over top of their nest. Flashing their bright colors in the sun, and showing off their best moves. All to attract a female to lay her eggs so they could fertilize and protect them until birth.
The boy became curious, so he threw a berry into the closest nest. The fish quickly removed it, inspected his nest, then continued dancing. Each time the boy repeated the process, the fish grew more aggressive. Until the time came when the fish took the berry to his neighbors nest, threw it in, then attacked his neighbor.
After returning from his attack, the fish would no longer dance. Just swim in angry guard over his nest.
This seemed like the perfect opportunity for further in depth the boy threw a handfull of berries into the nest. Well as one could imagine, it was on ! The water erupted into boiling chaos as the fish attacked the entire community. Some fought back, others just watched as he destroyed their nests untill the water filled with mud that blocked all view.
THe boy continued on his way, while considering a career in international politics.

[untergleetongouten-globin]

I still think bluegill
Is one of the best tasting freshwater fish there is.

[dandelionbomb]

They are fun lil dudes to watch boopin around docks.

[Marvellite]

I have several of these guys in my aquarium right now. Probably 20 or 30 small ones, with one big one around 4 in. They are so cool

[RonitAwesome]

These are the fish I love to catch in my backyard pond and I’ve been catching them this week, they are also good eating but I didn’t eat mine

[RonitAwesome]

And largemouth Bass are like one of the most species I catch all the time in my pond

[TheFishingNomad]

0:35 How are you going to make a video about the bluegill and show a picture of not a bluegill?

[Phil-wu]

As far as fishing goes..Just about everyone starts here..me included. I would catch a variety of sunfish with bluegill mixed in.oh no a bullhead too.i was scared to take them off the hook. Bluegill are beautiful..long live bluegill.

[superhaven]

fun fact: bluegill will feed on the eggs of the large blue catfish.

[keatonblackman]

Heard of Green Around The Gills And Now Blue Around The Gills

[chisaquaticvibe]

Bluegills remind me of sergeant majors.

[RandyRagland-my]

Very easy to catch Bluegills simply put earthworms really very large size called nightcrawlers, they could not resist it will bite for sure, along with large size bobber to let you know they are biting or not telltale easy to collect around 15 to 25 fishes

[RonitAwesome]

And do you have like any other social media other than YouTube so we can chat and I can give you more ideas ;)