If you enjoy catching big bluegill, go right now! Bluegill and shellcracker are bedding hot and heavy on Chickamauga. Chances are Nickajack and other lakes are in the same mode, although I haven't ...

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 ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — On many Arkansas bream fishing waters, there’s a saying: The best time to fish for bream, such as bluegills and redear sunfish, is in spring and early summer, during or near the time ...

Bass fishing has slowed down just about everywhere -- except Rodman Reservoir. Some serious stringers of fish have been taken out of there during two bass tournaments over the weekend. It took a ...

Panfish anglers are gearing up for their version of the final four, pitting bream, shellcracker, stumpknocker and bluegill against each other. The battle for top billing among these freshwater midget ...

Bream are in shallow water for spawning in almost all lakes and rivers throughout Northeast Florida. And for anglers big and small, it's a choice time for simple shoreline fishing that usually results ...

Florida has more than 7,000 lakes and ponds and over 10,000 miles of streams and rivers that are all breaming with bream. During the hottest days of the summer, some great bream fishing can be found ...

This year, we’ve seen both low and high water levels in local lakes. For fish-catching, this natural fluctuation is preferable to constant, unchanging levels. And over the last few weeks, the new ...

Tip of the Week: According to fieldandstream.com, if the bass you seek aren’t going hard after the big-hook bait, add a trailer hook. That basic adjustment can be the difference between bringing in a ...

The bobber slowly disappears beneath the water's surface with the kind of unhurried leisure that signals "good fish" to the trained observer. "That's a `cracker'," says north Alabama angler Ricky ...

May 14 is not an official state holiday, but it's a holiday of sorts for Alabama bream fishermen. That's the date of the full moon in May, a day of utmost importance to those who chase Alabama's most ...