The bluegill were biting Thursday for the approximately 10 boys fishing in the pond in front of Living Hope Church in Merrillville. For most of the Pierce Middle School students casting their lines in the pond and waiting for a bite, it was the first time they had put a pole in the water. “I like it,” Davion Johnson, 15, said. Johnson got off to a bit of a slow start as his friends were hooking small bluegill one after the other with the assistance of Lake County Prosecutor Bernie Carter and

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