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 ...

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 ...

If you love catching fish — not just fishing, but the actual act of reeling in another one — then there is nothing like the bluegill spawn. When hordes of big aggressive bull bluegills gather in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...