Within 15 minutes, we had seven bluegills in the live well. Then the sun disappeared and the bite went south, slowing to a crawl...
There was no running to a hot spot and he paid no attention to the presence (or more appropriately, absence) of weed beds. And in short order, we started catching fish.
I fear I’m corrupting Denny Hettig...Hettig fishes two or three days a week, usually for two or three hours. He likes to catch about a dozen bluegills and call it a day. A dozen is enough to feed his family (with enough left over for a fish sandwich for lunch the next day, he says) without beating up the lake’s fish population too badly.
I’ve been fishing with Denny Hettig a lot of ways for a lot of years, but one technique he uses causes me to shake my head in amazement every time we go...
Bait harnesses have been around forever; the basic nightcrawler harness is one of the most ubiquitous rigs in American tackle boxes.
But a few years back, when I met up with Denny Hettig, I found out that bigger isn't always better.
A friend of mine called me the other day and asked if I wanted to try some deep water trolling for bluegill. I haven't been in quite some time so I took him up on his offer. The smallest is 6 & 7/8 and the largest was 9 & 1/4.