John Cox won last weekend’s Bassmaster competition on Lake Chickamauga almost exclusively by fishing around bluegill beds, clearly indicating that the pattern many anglers wait for has come to the ...

This sure has been a funny year for fishing. With March and April being as cold as it gets for spring, almost all species of fish have had late spawns this year, including both fresh and saltwater ...

BOISE, Idaho — Tight Lines 208 is dedicated to helping people become better anglers through education. The Cram Session is designed to give readers a crash course on a specific fish species or local ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, the bass bite was best this past week on Lakes 3 and 5. Anglers are having the most success with plastic worms and bass jigs. Specks are still biting on Lake 5. The best ...

THE FLY LINE straightens out 3 feet above the water, and the popping bug hits the pond with a pleasing splat. I see the popper try to roll over, which tells me I have a bit of twist in the leader that ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddlecreek some bluegill have been caught on crickets. Topwaters at first light are producing bass. Later in the day, deep diving crank bites and big plastic worms are producing ...

While the bulk of the bluegill bedding will occur in May, there's an early push now. You learn something new every time you go out, and this year I've noticed something I never really put together ...

Bluegill, also called bream, brim, sunfish, or panfish, are freshwater finfish in the Centrarchidae family. The native range includes the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from New ...