To trash someone who is catching a few bluegill for bait is pretty harsh. Bluegill thrive in ponds. The only people who will thin out there numbers are the illegal netters who catch and then keep everything that goes in their nets. Yes, it is illegal to net in most of the public ponds, and this is a good thing. But someone down there using some bacon under a bobber isn't going to hurt nothing.

Now with that said. I find it incredibly difficult to catch bluegill at lakes like Lavon. To the point that I just don't even try anymore. If anyone could point me to a location on the lake where I could I sure would appreciate it. Used to do fairly well catching them on the rocks at Hubbard.

Where I live the green sunfish are in every pond, lake and big pothole. Native bluegill are in most of them as well. Green sunfish find there way through run-off, birds, etc. The green sunfish is the most hardy of the sunfish/bluegill species and people in this area bait there lines with them. The drought of 2011 killed the fish in a large portion of the ponds in our area but I can catch greenies in every single one of them now. I've sat there an caught about 50 in the 4" range (perfect bait size) with my fly rod form a pond about the size of a backyard swimming pool. Now I would be frustrated if they were taking some of the 10 inch trophies I catch and using them for bait.

I was fishing for blue gill in a ditch that was separated from it's pond. Those things must have been starving because they were attacking the grub like crazy. None got hooked though. Water was only about 3 feet deep by 10 feet long...