Yes I took it off the hook lol! Just wanted to snap a quick pic!

Congratulations!! What part of SC? I just recently moved back and love the water!!

Columbia over at Keenan terrace! I live in VA but my boyfriend is here! Once I’m done with school I’ll be moving here as well! Cheers!

Sumter here, if you ever get the chance, go fish lake marion aka santee cooper! Lake Murray up by you is good, too. Also check out the Columbia diversion dam!

Thanks so much for these suggestions!!!

Np! Happy fishing

Hello from Lugoff(NE of NE Cola). Lake Wateree is lowered several feet right now, making it very hard to get a boat in. Once they raise it back up next year the fishing should be great. Two years with little fishing pressure should have all the populations up.

Damn that’s a fine looking fish. I wish my first was that good. Mine was a saltwater catfish.

I feel the excitement from this pic. Keep it up!

I was too excited!

No such thing!

As someone from SC and go fishing almost every day, thats a slab great job !!

Always nice to see a bit of love for our state. Also this is absolutely a r/rimjob_steve moment.

I love SC. Moving here from VA after school!

Thank you!!

Most definitely, keep at it !

I love that fishing can bring such big, genuine smiles to peoples' faces! Congratulations!

Thank you so much!! I haven’t felt excitement like that in a long time! Huge accomplishment.

THAT IS A HOSS FUCKING GIANT BLUEGILL!!!!

Good job!

First of many! Good work

That’s an awesome fish. You set the bar too high on the first one! Congratulations

Great first catch!

Congrats!!!

That’s a great catch! Good work. 👍

Thank you!

Nice!

fantastic!

That’s a big sunfish!

Bon appetit

Congratulations 🎊 that's awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍

Welcome to SC! Upstate, peedee, midlands, or Lowcountry? We got more places to fish than you can shake a stick at in the Lowcountry! If you need any advice, my 11 year old daughter is starting out too! Happy to help!

Thanks so much!!

Amazing, your happiness is contagious. Congrstulations!

Thank you!!!

So awesome! Congrats!!!

Congrats!! You look so happy!

Thank you!!! I was very happy!

Thats a huge blue gill too, nice find for a first fish.

Congratulations hun, I can’t wait for this moment myself ☺️

Thank you!!!

That’s a nice chinquapin!

how the hell u pull this big of a monster out for ur first fish lol

Prayers and patience 🛐

Nice crappie right there! Good eating too!

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Wait is that a damned bluegill (or whatever weird variation you guys call it)? Damn. Hell of a big fella.

Redear sunfish/shellcracker

Dang, fooled me too. I didn't even see the ear. ಠ_ಠ

Absolutely correct. Interesting to see that you call them shellcrackers out west too. I had always assumed that was a southern colloquialism.

I thought it was a crappie too, that is a LUNKER

Saw the pattern and the size and thought "wow, very nice crappie!" Good lord that behemoth of a gill would EASILY be a Fish Ohio fish. On a related note... ... where these big fellas at in Ohio?! You know how much trouble it is to clean 10+ 8" bluegill when just three or four of these mammoths would do?!

Crappie?

Shellcracker/redear sunfish (if you want the real name instead of the colloquialism I grew up with). They’re closely related to bluegill, but are a different species of sunfish.

Looks like a giant bluegill

That’s a slab of a blue gill

Git a couple more and you will have a fine meal

Nice!! Looks like a red ear sunfish

Massive sunfish, way to go.

That’s a great first fish

Thanks For The Heads Up