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 ...

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 ...

Oh, how I love springtime. Flowers “spring”ing up everywhere, woodchucks getting fat on new grasses, and lambs frolicking around every flock of sheep. But the best part, at least for me and a lot of ...

Coastal fishermen know what it means when they see laughing gulls diving in open-water bays and along the barrier islands. Schooling speckled trout. Right? For freshwater fishermen, there’s a much ...

The clock is ticking on Howard Tanner`s super-salmon project, but there`s even more around the corner. Wait`ll we get a load of his whopper bluegills in the years ahead (4- or 5-pounders?). Or huge ...

Bluegills are an important sport fish across South Dakota. In northeast South Dakota, fishing pressure directed at bluegills can be extremely high when the availability of fish greater than 7 inches ...

Last week I sat at the edge of a pond watching a series of dark scooped-out areas on the pond bottom. The water was clear enough to see that each dark area had a single adult bluegill in it. The adult ...

Bluegill sunfish have provided an unusually tidy test of the much-discussed prediction that animal dads’ diligence in child care depends on how certain they are that the offspring really are their own ...

It’s early June, and like most things in northern Michigan this spring, the bluegills are running bit behind. Or frankly, maybe they’re on time as we were treated to a little taste of normalcy via a ...