I HATE bluegills

[bch7773 0]

I've been learning to scuba dive in a old quarry. I get in the water, everything seems ok, until i start feeling sharp pains in my legs. I look in the water and discover I am surrounded by bluegills, and they are biting the sh*t outta me. yes, those little 2-inch long fish with no teeth like bite my exposed skin, and they are somehow breaking the skin. I got like a dozen bleeding bites on my legs.

and the little bastards are too quick for me to hit or catch. everytime i stop waving my hands by my legs, another one darts in and starts biting my leg again.
anybody know any tricks to either keep fish away, or some way to kill the little sobs? I'm gonna smear suntan lotion all over my legs tomorrow, and hopefully they won't like the taste after one bite each... and since there is only about 1000 of them, that leaves me with 1000 more bites to go.

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[Ncrowe 0]

I did some quarry diving in tennesse along time ago and had the same problem with those little fockers biting my ear lobes, lil sob's. If you want to have real fun do some scuba in the gulf of mexico and have a trigger fish take a chunk out of you, I swear if they got any bigger you wouldnt be able to get in the water. A spear gun did allow for some revenge if one got too frisky

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[D22369 0]

actually a bluegill is a predadory fish, they have a sharp horny ridge (teeth) and will try to eat just about anything they can, but usually they stick to things around their own size..........are you sure someone didnt drop in a couple of pihranna and they bred? They are either insanely hungry, or you just taste good...
Other than poisoning the quarry (which is probably illegal) toss em a couple of m-80s or quarter sticks of dynamite......(probably illegal also)......

good luck;
Roy
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[CrazyIvan 0]

Sheeesh, for I second I thought I read "I Hate BLUE BALLS" .

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[Shawndiver 0]

Try wearing an 1/8th" full suit. That ought to hold the little buggers for awhile. Or they might just go right for your throat. Good luck!

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[Unstable 9]

Take a few of those buggers up in the plane with you. Sure they can swim around and bite, but lets see those little flockers try to fly!!!!

I remember that you proved that naughty little mice caught at the DZ can't fall relative to a skydiver, what about bluegill??

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[LuvToFly 0]

I can't stand those little SOB's either.

Have a really great large lake not too far, and used to be able to swim in it years ago. Now, as soon as you get in those frigin' things start bitin' ya. Freaked me out the first time I saw one gnawing on my leg!

So what's the deal? No food, pissed off, bored. Hey, lay off the humans!

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[Amazon 7]

They call em PANFISH.. FRY EM

[PhreeZone 20]

The best defense is a good offence. Take a loaf of stale bread with you and feed the fish before you hop in. They will attack the bread and fill up rapidly. If they are'nt hungry they won't bite you. If they start to bite again, just surface and refeed them. Problem solved.

I did the same thing when I would snorkle in ponds and lakes.

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[skymut 0]

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They call em PANFISH.. FRY EM

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[gremlin 0]

Stick to the explosives - watch them float to the surface - skim it and then dive to your hearts content!

I'm drunk, you're drunk, lets go back to mine....

[skybill 22]

Now we know who to use for "Bait" when we go fishing!!!!!!

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[LuvToFly 0]

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The best defense is a good offence. Take a loaf of stale bread with you and feed the fish before you hop in. They will attack the bread and fill up rapidly. If they are'nt hungry they won't bite you. If they start to bite again, just surface and refeed them. Problem solved.

I did the same thing when I would snorkle in ponds and lakes.

Tried that - but it didn't work - Lots of them would go for the bait, but there were so many that the others would just keep bitin' ya.

My solution was to feed them, but feed them crap. Potato chips, greasy donuts, things with lots of saturated fat and preservatives. I figured, hey, no one would ever know I took the fish out - would just attribute it to teenage fish eating too much junk with their friends

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of mankind's ancient dreams of a magic carpet" - Igor Sikorsky

[Tailgate 0]

I always said that if the BlueGills got as big as bass it wouldn't be safe to go in the water. But they are QUITE tasty, and go well with Beer.

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