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 ...

The classic way to fish for bluegill/sunfish (hereinafter referred to generically as bluegills) is casting a size 10 or 12, rubber-legged popping bug or spider with a light fly rod and floating line.

One great place to begin is by looking at classic patterns that have stood the test of time and have been catching fish for decades. Many of those flies are on the list below. But you also have to ...

The white fly line shot low over the water and unfurled, straightening the leader and dropping the tiny bug delicately to the shaded surface under an overhanging tree. A bluegill shot to the surface ...

"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning starter ...

Bluegills, the ubiquitous catch of most anglers across the United States. Found from border to border, from puddles and ponds to great lakes and rivers, the fish thrive wherever they swim. Their ...

I wish I had discovered fly fishing when I was a kid. I spent hours collecting grasshoppers and tossing them into Louisiana ponds, bayous and lakes, just to watch mostly bluegill and bass peck them ...

Some people live for the blow of a big largemouth creaming a swimbait. Others can’t get enough smallmouths erupting on Spooks walking across the surface. And, sure, I love those things too, but come ...

It was just about a perfect evening by the old pond. The lily pads extended out to about 10 or 15 feet from the shore in an uneven outline with many circle-like openings within them that seemed to be ...

Traveling back to my home state of Ohio, I planned on fly fishing as much as possible. My younger brother, Dan, loaded a full week of destinations into our angling itinerary. Farm ponds, little creeks ...