Deer creek 7/8

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Can't remember anyone posting about catching a gill there. Nice. Did ya have say trouble with the jet ski crews

There have been lots of green sunfish in Deer Creek...going back a lot of years.  But not many bluegills.  I have only caught a couple.

Def could’ve been a green sunfish I’m no expert, but I’ve caught the same ones down on Powell and I always call them gills

Lake Powell is further sunfish-complicated with the addition of Redear Sunfish (aka Shellcrackers) to help eat the mussels.
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That was a good move.  Redears don't school up like bluegills.  They are more solitary.  But they do eat those mussels and have done a good job in Lake Havasu...on the lower Colorado River.  They get over 5 pounds there.  
I used to catch them in a couple of lakes near where I lived in Tucson.  Scrappy little buggers.  Good eating too, as are all members of the panfish family.