Big bluegill question

[lampern]

http://instagr.am/p/CCZjkS0Hwb0/
Are big bluegill like the one in the picture usually male or female?

 

[NCHillbilly]

I don't know. They are in the same family as bass, though, and most bigger bass tend to be females.

 

[TurkeyH90]

Seems lime we catch more big male copperheads on the Altamaha. Catch bigger female shellcracker though.

 

[Fletch_W]

Im in week 3 of my new bluegill feeding program. It took about a week for them to realize the pellets were food. They are engorging themselves now. The whole idea, for me, is to make them bigger for spawning purposes. I read that a large bluegill lays 100x more eggs than a small bluegill. Not just 2x, or 10x, or 20x. So for the sake of the predator species, I see it as a way of improving quantity of forage. I also love catching big bluegill. The ones in the pond now are about a 7 inch average, which is actually not bad, but I want to get them up around the 9 inch mark over the next growing season.

 

[fatback]

I catch more big males, on average.

 

[fish hawk]

The places I fish the males are always the biggest

 

[Rabun]

Holy cow that's a big bluegill. That would be a blast on an ultralight!

 

[Nicodemus]

Holy cow that's a big bluegill. That would be a blast on an ultralight!

Imagine it on a 3wt.

 

[Rabun]

Knuckle buster