I bought a fishing license for the first time in about 6-7 years !!
I literally don’t know where to get the time to fish, but this year I’m going to make time.
My knowledge of fishing is “worms, hook, bobber”.
So the first thing I need is “Worms”.
It was weird, I dug in my garden, no worms, I dug under my compost pile, no worms. The compost pile is usually ground zero for worms.
I didn’t find any worms until I dug grass out from around the tree :
I cut the ring around the tree to enlarge it:
So, I found worms, but not big night crawlers. But they would work.
So after doing the concrete work at my brother’s house, I stopped at a park district lake (former quarry hole)
I put the worm on, cast out about 30 feet and “BAM”, got hits right away but I couldn’t hook anything. This went on for about 10 minutes and three worms (picked clean) before I decided to put a smaller hook on.
First cast, “BAM”, hit and hooked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After that, almost every cast was a “fish on”.
All I caught was Bluegills, yeah, I ain’t too proud !!!
A lot of small ones, but caught about 6 that were almost the size of my hand and would have been good enough for eating if I were camping.
After the first catch, I stayed for about an hour.
Good day !!!!!
Bacon Time !!!!!! 
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he can write fiction that will feed his family for decades and enrich the pantheon of western literature for eternity.
I’m more of a saltwater guy, but yeah those blue gills have teeny tiny mouths. I got a few very small hooks for the times I’m around a pond just in case. And yeah, I live 10 minutes from the bay and never quite have time to go either.
I’ve never done any salt water fishing. Not much here in the midwest.
those little bluegill makes great bass bait.
My older brother used to belong to a private fishing hole and when I went with him, the first thing we’d do is snag the smallest bluegill we could. Usually about the size of a silver dollar. We’d but a hook through it an use it for catfish.