If you enjoy catching big bluegill, go right now! Bluegill and shellcracker are bedding hot and heavy on Chickamauga. Chances are Nickajack and other lakes are in the same mode, although I haven't ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — On many Arkansas bream fishing waters, there’s a saying: The best time to fish for bream, such as bluegills and redear sunfish, is in spring and early summer, during or near the time ...

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 ...

Bass fishing has slowed down just about everywhere -- except Rodman Reservoir. Some serious stringers of fish have been taken out of there during two bass tournaments over the weekend. It took a ...

Happy Independence Day to all of the local angling community. What could be better than a weekend of fishing? While there are plenty of opportunities on tap, what could be more American than fishing ...

Florida has more than 7,000 lakes and ponds and over 10,000 miles of streams and rivers that are all breaming with bream. During the hottest days of the summer, some great bream fishing can be found ...

Bream are in shallow water for spawning in almost all lakes and rivers throughout Northeast Florida. And for anglers big and small, it's a choice time for simple shoreline fishing that usually results ...

Tip of the Week: According to fieldandstream.com, if the bass you seek aren’t going hard after the big-hook bait, add a trailer hook. That basic adjustment can be the difference between bringing in a ...

This year, we’ve seen both low and high water levels in local lakes. For fish-catching, this natural fluctuation is preferable to constant, unchanging levels. And over the last few weeks, the new ...

If you’re wondering about sunfish vs bluegill, there’s something we should probably get straightened out right off the bat. Run a background check on bluegill, and you’ll see they’re actually a member ...

Redear sunfish go by many names with chinquapin and shellcrackers being two of the more common in Mississippi. Although some anglers specifically target redear, they are often a by-catch for those ...