a little of my history with bluegill fishing. My dad, my brother and myself have averaged about 200 bluegill a day at Kentucky lake over the last 30 years when we go. They are not hard to find when they are on bed. We fish the waverly area of the lake. We have not been in a couple years and I miss it. I always believed it was the best and maybe only place to find the bluegills like that. I never knew that Priest coule have close to the same size gills and just as many on a bed (caught over 200 off of one bed this year and several others were fishing it also). my last trip to Kentucky lake 3 years ago we fished big richland creek on Kentucky lake, never left sight of the dock and cleaned 176 gils of which about 15 were shellcrackers (the only difference I see between priest and Kentucky lake, I have caught about 10 shellcrackers over the last 3 years out of priest) but it had been about 5 or 6 years since we had been able to go Kentucky lake and fish for them and I remember that day thinking I would not miss going there to fish for bluegill. The last 3 years on Priest have been so good, I have not been back to Kentucky lake for bluegill. Kentucky lake is and probably always will be one of my favorites lakes, I have spent a world of time there, but for bluegills I may not have to spend the money anymore. I sat down and added up how good priest has been this spring, the friends, family and myself that has went his spring have cleaned well over 500 bluegill and I have found many beds that I did not fish and we never fished over 3 hours in a day on priest this year and averaged 90 or so gills a trip.
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