Posting this for Midlothian Joe he caught this Lake Fairfield Bluegill record Friday 6/19/09. Missed the State record by that much. I knew I should have taken off work and went with him. He will post later this evening with details. I took these pics and the fish was HUGE!!! Hopefuly pics come though, yes my wife had to help me but I am learning

Hope everyone is having a great day.

WWWWOOOOOWWWW!!!! incredible congrats

Way to go!!!

Well done! Congrats!

dang thats a pig

good bait.

Excellent fish!! Do you have some data on length and weight? Or did I miss it.


That is one special BG...a trophy without doubt. Congrats!!!

I think it's 12 inches long

What an outstanding gill! Congratulations

Sorry for the late post,here are more details.My wife and I went to FF friday fished from 9:00am-2:30 caught 40 and my P.B. and pending Lake Fairfield record around 1:00 as soon I pulled it in my wife said Joe that has to be some kind of record I kind of played it down and said I dont think so but without a doubt biggest one I ever caught so I just threw him in the ice chest and kept on fishing because they were biting really good! After 2+ hours on ice we decided to head in and while I was loading the boat there were 2 State park officers at the dinning hall and my wife asked them if they could weigh my fish and they called to the office at the front gate and there were Game Wardens there and they said no problem. Honestly I probally would have not bothered to get it weighed but my wife was pretty insistant, but glad I did,just wish I would have kept him alive long enough to weigh him in at his true weight and here is why,he easily was a new Lake record at 1.90 lbs,11 1/2 inches in length,and a girth of 14 3/4 after the Game warden took all my info he told me I narrowly missed the State record of 2.02 lbs. I know there have probally been lots of big bluegills caught at FF that never made it past the fish cleaning station, maybe bigger than the one that I caught,and here is why I say that I went back to FF today,had about 50 crickets left from yesterday could not let them go to waste(lol) plus I had to be in Corsicana for a B-day party later.Fished from 10:30-1:30 caught 21,including my next to P.B. 1.50 lbs/10 3/4 and had another that went 1.25 (same Game warden weighed them for me,thanks Mike),with all that said I think there are plenty of possible record gills that have been caught at FF or will be caught, sure would like to here what some of you breambusters that fish FF alot P.B. are? Also thinking about getting the 2 big gills mounted together on a piece of driftwood, do any of you guys have anybody you would recommend and what do you think something like that would cost?

Joe

That is one HUGE bluegill. Congrats on the catch.

M.J.,

Please do get them mounted. I wish I had a taxidemist to recommend but I do not.

You will be sorry if you don't.

Congrats again and a couple of well-done's too!

Now if I can just get you to PM me the general area where you caught them, then I would be a happy man.

Awsome Joe!

I've been fishing for FF gills probably longer than most of the TFFers and my personal best is only 1.8 lbs. I have caught LOTS of 1-1.25 lb fish, but rarely do we catch one that breaks the pound and a half mark.
The only thing different about my 1.8 fish is that it was a native fish with no hybrid or coppernose characteristics. Yours is definately the largest coppernose hybrid I've seen.

I agree with you on the record being out there, but I also agree with what you said about the record having been caught over there before. I've seen a couple of fish that I think may have pushed the 2 lb mark, but both times they never saw a scale.

That's just an awsome catch, and I would mount those suckers for sure! A 2lb bluegill is like a 12-14lb bass...would you mount that?

BBrown be happy you have PM,also I forgot to add I caught both fish with in 30ft area.

Joe

Congratulations! Mike was still bragging on you as late as Saturday evening.

If nothing else when you get your state certificates make a cropped picture collage around your certificate. Make sure a picture of your wife, who is your witness and fishing buddy and that got your fish weighed is included in that collage.

My buddy for his record made two framed pictures like that and retired and placed the lure with his display. He has a special shelf in his office cube dedicated to just those items.

The Picas photo (yahoo) software will make a picture collage from several pictures that you can arrange. A matted picture and frame that big will cost as much as a fish mounting. You will need to find a photo place that can print a page size that large. So the picture fading is minimized, use a glass pane that will block as much ultraviolet light as possible. Save a copy of the source picture on a flash drive so you can reproduce another at a later time should the fading start to happen.

You might search TFF for somebody mounting fish. Years ago there used to be a house with a taxidermy sign out on route 17 in Emory (lake fork). Mountings are not cheap and will cost as much as the frame and print described above.

I used to catch Blugill many years ago up in the north east, but never have I seen them as big as those. Those are hosses! Great pictures!!