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 The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
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11/12/19 12:20 PM
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Laker One
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It's almost Rainbow Trout Stocking Season!  Get your trout tackle ready!  Got a feeling this will be a cold winter! 
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/12/19 12:46 PM
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WillieRip
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/12/19 03:12 PM
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Gitter Done
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It will not be long. Love reading and seeing those trout post and catches.
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/15/19 12:27 AM
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banker-always fishing
Pumpkin Head
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The stocking list should be coming out in the next couple of days. Love the sunfish off season! 
![[Linked Image]](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/823/ycku.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/560/ukw3.jpg) IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap. John 3:16 Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/15/19 12:54 PM
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Smithaven
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Chuck, you youngsters missed the hey day of the trout program. At its height the trout were stocked in many area ponds in the thousands instead of the hundreds. And the Tarrant Regional Water District had its own stocking program independent of the TPWD. The TRWD had two stockings a year and trout over 5 pounds were not uncommon. The TPWD stockings were smaller fish but greater numbers. The high point in the Trinity River stocking was the tail race of Possum Kingdom Lake, where fishermen by the hundreds vied for a huge stocking.
My late friend Terry Turner and I traveled to ponds and the Trinity River throughout the Metroplex. We usually limited out. Our goal was to catch 100 trout per season.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.carolineclemmons.com/bluegill.jpg) . Seventy five years of chasing the elusive sunfish.
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Smithaven]
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11/15/19 03:08 PM
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Laker One
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Chuck, you youngsters missed the hey day of the trout program. At its height the trout were stocked in many area ponds in the thousands instead of the hundreds. And the Tarrant Regional Water District had its own stocking program independent of the TPWD. The TRWD had two stockings a year and trout over 5 pounds were not uncommon. The TPWD stockings were smaller fish but greater numbers. The high point in the Trinity River stocking was the tail race of Possum Kingdom Lake, where fishermen by the hundreds vied for a huge stocking.
My late friend Terry Turner and I traveled to ponds and the Trinity River throughout the Metroplex. We usually limited out. Our goal was to catch 100 trout per season.
Wow. What year did that take place? Catching five pound trout would be totally AWESOME!
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/15/19 10:49 PM
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Smithaven
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The practice of stocking a few very large trout in with the smaller ones continued until 2000 or so. Then TRWD management decided they go more PR bang for their buck by stocking larger numbers of smaller trout.
. Seventy five years of chasing the elusive sunfish.
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
[Re: Laker One]
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11/16/19 11:12 AM
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Every now and then TPW will put in a a couple of BIG ONES. I caught one 18 inches two years ago and last year I saw someone catch a 20" fish. 
IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap. John 3:16 Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !
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Re: The Bluegill's Angler Off Season!
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11/16/19 02:02 PM
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Laker One
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My buddy Jeff caught one 18" last winter below the Trail Race-Canyon Lake.
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