GRAND RAPIDS - The cold spell had broken on Wednesday. Justin Bailey figured the bluegills would be chomping again on Split Hand Lake south of Grand Rapids. He dropped the transducer of his Vexilar ...

They are among the smallest to swim in Wisconsin waters. But panfish have an outsized importance to our state's fisheries and anglers. And human anglers catch and keep more panfish than any other ...

Angela Perea at Lake Fayetteville Marina recommends using top-water lures for black bass at dawn and dusk. Bluegill fishing ...

It's time for catching crappies and panfish. We've got the Thundermist crew out of the water on this beautiful summer day ...

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REYDELL -- In the lowlands of southeast Arkansas, fishing is surprisingly good in hot weather. In the lowlands, there is no deep water to provide thermal refuge. Fish living in shallow water continue ...

Just as the first day of spring appeared on the calendar, the early shallow-water bite for crappie, perch and bluegill exploded across northwestern Pennsylvania. However, it now looks as if cooler ...

There is still plenty of ice on most of the lakes and ponds where many of us go ice fishing, but if the current weather holds, that ice could be leaving us before long. I hope to get on the ice a time ...

And two — and more relevant to today's discussion — why was the walleye chosen instead of the crappie? Or, for that matter, the "sunfish,'' a catch-all term that in Minnesota includes green sunfish, ...

Kandiyohi County is home to more than 25 fishing lakes, most north of U.S. Highway 12. Anglers are asked to take care when moving boats from lake to lake, so as not to spread invasive aquatic species.

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Although I have been following the Quality Bluegill Initiative that the DNR has been working on for over a year, I sort of lost track of time. Now, here we are, closing in on the start of March and ...