Caught a few just by accident. Always thought it would be neat when fish are not biting you could at least get bluegills.

Also kids would have fun at a campsite.

Any pictures at all from the BWCA?

I bet not many? prove me wrong?

No separation of panfish species,but interesting how the panfish combo wipes out the other species
Harvest

Sport Fish Harvested:Minnesota DNR site

Walleye - 4.6 million pounds
Northern Pike - 4.6 million pounds
Panfish - 9.7 million pounds

The most caught fish:

1st: Panfish
2nd: Walleye
3rd: Northern

I know they are there but never caught any...never tried though either

Lets make a deal, you post a picture of yourself so I know your real, and I will post a bwca bluegill picture :-)

One year when the walleye bite was really slow, we stumbled across a bunch of nice gills. They were just as tasty as the walleyes and kept us fed for a couple days. Caught some real big ones too! Here is a picture of my buddy with some one the stringer.

Dang! Those are huge!

Have to dig up the pics of the gills I've caught in back bay on basswood.

quote dpreiner21: "One year when the walleye bite was really slow, we stumbled across a bunch of nice gills. They were just as tasty as the walleyes and kept us fed for a couple days. Caught some real big ones too! Here is a picture of my buddy with some one the stringer.
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get the frying pan out-nice

Daytripped into a lake for trout and found these bull gills also. Brought them back to the lodge to mount them (In Oil )

quote dpreiner21: "One year when the walleye bite was really slow, we stumbled across a bunch of nice gills. They were just as tasty as the walleyes and kept us fed for a couple days. Caught some real big ones too! Here is a picture of my buddy with some one the stringer.
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Very nice fish !

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quote dpreiner21: "One year when the walleye bite was really slow, we stumbled across a bunch of nice gills. They were just as tasty as the walleyes and kept us fed for a couple days. Caught some real big ones too! Here is a picture of my buddy with some one the stringer.
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Very nice fish !"

I think I caught a total of 1 bluegill up in the BWCA and it was on a river system.

They may be the best tasting fish out there.

I got to catch that bluegill fish, than I can work on that picture thing. I think maybe I need fishing lessons.

2 spots come to mind. 1st is on basswood.comingfrom the east, before you get into the big part of hoist bay there is a long narrow island. Just south of that island is a small island in a small bay. Directly south of that island they stack up to spawn along the shore.. the 2nd is on the north arm of knife.1st big bay south of the portage into amoeber. Go all the way back to the very last campsite on the point.just to the left they stack up. You can see and catch them from camp....

Malberg has decent gills. I always bring some little stuff in case I see some bluegills swimming or in a northern's belly.

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Malberg has decent gills. I always bring some little stuff in case I see some bluegills swimming or in a northern's belly. "

They look so clean of parasites also. That one on the right looks like one nice male bluegill.

Kawishiwi River....north arm of the triangle.....site 1148. Kids had a ball catching big gills right off the front of the campsite.

Hard to beat a big bluegill. I ran across some on the Canadian side of Crooked a few years back and was ill-prepared to fish them. That isn't going to happen again. Panfish tackle is light.

I've caught bluegill on at least every other trip. One year we didn't catch enough walleye for dinner so I paddled around the corner from camp where I caught a bluegill earlier and in 15 minutes returned with enough bluegill for dinner.

If I catch one I will usually move on because I'm usually trying to catch fish other than bluegill, I can catch those any time I want to on my local lakes and ponds, when I'm up there I want to catch other species.

Here is a nice one from Gull Lake a number of years ago. Bad picture, we had it laid flat in his hand and it was far bigger than his hand. We didn't eat that one :)

I got a nice sized bluegill on Horse when I was through there in 2011.

any pumpkinseeds? they may not be that far north in Minnesota?