After walleye season shuts down for the year, it's typically time to explore all the smaller centarchid lakes that have been in the back of my mind all winter- in search of mondo gillz. I like to hit lakes that I've never fished before. They usually are under 200 acres and are loaded with largemouth bass. Lakes that have only LMB as the apex predator will have an over-abundance of stunted one pound bass. An extremely high bass density will always keep bluegill populations lower, creating an environment that yields enormous individual bluegills. Because there are less gills to catch, I have to work hard to catch them, but ridiculously overgrown humpbacks are usually the bounty.
