Like most fishermen, the first fish I caught was a bream – from Georgia’s Lake Sinclair at a family picnic in 1959. The bream I caught was a bluegill, but depending on where you grew up, your first ...

Do this winter’s freezing temperatures have you itching for summer? Never fear, if summer is your jam, it’s not to soon to start planning for lazy summer days fishing your pond. Ashland Soil and Water ...

The bluegill is the most common and widely known species in the sunfish family. Bluegills are beloved by anglers across North America. Many of us—this author included—got our start catching them in ...

Hot weather in Arkansas accompanies hot bream fishing, especially now near the first full moon of summer. Bluegill sunfish spawn on each summer full moon, but anglers look forward to the June bluegill ...

Christmas Day in Southeast Missouri: a vivid bluegill, ink-black pond water, and why winter fishing still works when you remember fish eat year‑round.

Fishing in his neighbor's pond, Houma native Tim Trahan said he didn't realize what he had hooked until he reeled it in. "Actually, I was amazed by the size of it," he said. "I thought I was back at ...

Late in the 1980s, my family moved from LaMoure to Valley City, N.D. I'd fished the Jim River and Lake LaMoure before the move and enjoyed an array of fish, from pike to perch and even the lowly carp.