![]() ![]() "All the magazines were nicely ordered with dramatic cover photos and bold-lettered writing inviting you to spend your pocket change for a chance to become more informed. "As I entered the grocery store, the first thing I saw was the magazine rack," he recalls. He says the grocery store is where he first had the epiphany of reconciling competing points of view regarding selecting proper bait sizes for fish. When asked about catching trophy bluegills on larger baits, he recounted memories of his childhood to offer an analogy for pursuing trophy 'gills. When he's not putting smiles on faces as a dentist in Lincoln, Nebraska, he's busy as an aquaculturist breeding bluegills and sharing his love for the species with like-minded anglers on his website. Bruce Condello, a bull 'gill expert, has fished most of the best bluegill fisheries in the country and has caught as many 2- to 3-pound 'gills as anyone. To weed out smaller 'gills, jumbo leeches, whole nightcrawlers, swimbaits, and crankbaits have become staples. My recent experiences have tended toward fishing larger baits - both livebaits and artificial lures - to fool and provoke strikes from bull bluegills. Paraphrasing the comedic words of Brian Fontana from Anchorman, if someone tells you they have a secret potion for trophy bluegills that 60 percent of the time works every time, be skeptical and amused. It's bull bluegills surpassing 9 inches with muscular humps on their heads and enlarged chests that are what many panfish anglers obsess over. When it comes to bluegill fishing, dinks just don't cut it. ![]() An actual size 14-inch coppernose bluegill from the trophy fishery of Richmond Mill Lake, North Carolina. ![]()
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