Big Stone Lake

Local guide Tanner Arndt and I spent a day on his home lake of Big Stone in early June. Tanner said we should be able to catch some big bluegills, and maybe we would chase bass once we got our fill of bluegills. We went to a shallow rock-weed transition area and quickly started catching ‘gills. Most of these fish were around 9 ½” in length, a big bluegill anywhere in the Midwest, though we did break the 10” barrier too. These fish were scrappy as can be and lots of fun to catch.