Went out to Walnut Creek at about 3 pm and fished for about 3 hours. I did really well on Gills catching 50 within the first half hour of fishing. They were hitting a PTN like it was the last meal they will ever have!

I was using the new 5 wt Sage launch that I had exchanged for this past weekend, man what a difference!

Ended up catching 105 gills, 1 Hybrid sunfish and 5 bass.

QTIP ended up with 40 gills, 2 crappie, and 3 bass.

This years...

Not much to report here only got out for about a half hour. Hit the Bear, along the dam. Ended up with 9 crappie, 1 gill, 1 Green sunfish and 2 hybrids.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Walleye 1
Yellow Bass 2
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 19
LMB 32
Green Sunfish 36
Rainbow Trout 38
Hybrids 129
Gills 454
Crappie 654
Total Catch this year= 1372

Not a whole lot to add ontop of my post for this day. I was using a 1-2 inch strip, with a flick of the wrist as my retrieve, I would also vary my retrieve so that the pause time varied (this seemed to help quite a bit).

My totals were 1 Greenie, 17 hybrid sunnies, 50 crappie and 50 gills. Not bad at all for a 3 hour outing!

Here is the average size of the gills (my thumbnail is the size of a quarter):
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Got out for about 4 hours today and did pretty well. I started at the Z and after fishing it for about an hour and a half decided to move on. The water quality of that lake has really gone to pot the last few years, I think it is silting in at a pretty fast pace.

I then hit the Bear to do some catching, bluegill would be the querry. I started by throwing the usual black woolly bugger with grizzly hackle and then went to the PTN and knocked them dead. The strip was slow at about an...

Got in a bit of fishing with Qtip again, this time he was armed with a 6wt flyrod! We started out at Chalco and did ok. Throwing black grizzly hackled buggers I managed to hook, play and lose at the bank the largest walleye of my life (so far).

When it struck it immediately bent the rod half way down and through up quite a wake. At first I thought I had hooked into a carp by the way it was fighting! Being an experience angler I gave it time, adjusted my drag and kept my rod high. It...