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 ...

Crappie fishing and bass fishing is waning in intensity, but bream fishing is nearing its peak. Bream, a generic term for sunfish that includes bluegill, redear, longear and green sunfish, inhabit ...

The arrival of summer brings great fishing across the state, including prime opportunities for bream fishing. Bream, a generic name for the generic "panfish," generally refers to bluegill sunfish and ...

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 ...

Years ago, in a fit of pique over a dud fishing trip to Wisconsin, I wrote a column belittling the lowly bream. My feelings were hurt after having made a long trip for walleyes and northern pike and ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay stumble upon a massive hidden bream bed and engage in a giant bluegill smackdown unlike any other.

For most anglers it all starts with some species of sunfish. At some point, Dad or Grandad handed us a rod with a bobber and worm at a local creek or lake, and the fishing addiction began. The funny ...

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 ...

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 ...