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 ...

It's payback time in North Alabama. Throughout the spawn, bluegills and other panfish harass nesting bass, rushing in to gulp down eggs and fry anytime the parent fish are distracted. But the bass get ...

SAMBURG, Tenn. – As we troll past a couple of the 200-year-old cypress trees that dot northwest Tennessee’s Reelfoot Lake, Alan Clemons gets a whiff of his childhood. It's a hint of stale sweetness, ...

Giant bluegills, the same ones that carefully inspect your baits in midwinter with a fervent discernment few other fish possess, become decidedly less judicious when late spring arrives. Instead, they ...

Tucked along rural Illinois backroads, Crazy Joe’s Fish House serves fried fish locals drive miles for—crispy, casual, and ...

Fall is on the horizon, but summer tactics are still the norm. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said striped bass are biting but large fish are hard to come by. Shad, brood minnows or small sunfish are the ...

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Two South Dakota scuba divers and their wives headed out on July 6 for a day of diving and boating on Pickerel Lake. The 1,000-acre lake located near Webster, South Dakota, is spring fed and a popular ...

Terry Nelson was ice fishing in late December on Lindstrom Lake, located just north of Minneapolis, when he caught a once-in-a-lifetime panfish. “I thought, ‘What is this? I have never seen anything ...

Social media users have been sharing an image of a bluegill fish with text that warns readers about the species being one of the most dangerous in North America. This claim is false. Examples can be ...