Love Bluegill one of the BEST tasting fish, catch em, lop off the heads and scale/gut and toss into a dish of flour/spices and hot grease in cast iron! My sister used to help catch & clean and cook sure miss her good food and even better company.
She taught me how to pull out top & bottom fins (after cooking) then slide fork along back bone down to the tail and flip the top half/fillet up and eat away grab tail and pull backbone & rib cage & pull out may have to run fork along ribs on lower fillet. Skin on helps to keep the light tender meat together and SOOO good with a bit of tarter sauce maybe some lemon...
LD1 just let me know when they get eating size & I'll make the short drive down!
Mark