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 ...

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 ...

Available from one corner of the lower 48 to the other, bluegills are great for anglers of all ages. But bluegills belong to that unscientifically defined family of “panfish,” which is organized by ...

Like birds, panfish have field marks by which they can be identified. Following are nine panfish with which all Pennsylvania anglers – small fry as well as grown-ups – should be familiar. Identity: ...

It’s panfish season across Southwest Washington right now. With a summer sun warming the water, and the long days providing excellent insect production, the smallish but plentiful fish are feeding ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, bass fishing was best this past week on lakes Horseshoe, Lost Lake West, Pine, Shop, Tern, 3, 4, 5, A, B and C. This past week 29 large bass over 19 inches and six bass ...

Terry Nelson was ice fishing in late December on Lindstrom Lake, located just north of Minneapolis, when he caught a once-in-a-lifetime panfish. “I thought, ‘What is this? I have never seen anything ...