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 ...

Want to pick up fly fishing? Rig up and head out this May for spawning bluegills in Northern Michigan. May is a month of bounty. Asparagus is shooting up, flowers are blooming and morels are hiding ...

This isn’t the best time of year to catch a bluegill on a dry fly, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. They may venture into the shallows for a short time on a sunny day, but until the water ...

LAPEER COUNTY -- Fly fishing usually brings to mind images of Hemingway-esque men in waders, casting for that elusive brookie or brown in classic trout stream waters. But veteran angler Dave Wermuth ...

Most anglers equate bluegill fishing with springtime. The fish enter the shallows in late spring to feed and to spawn, and they’ll aggressively hit surface and subsurface lures fished on fly or light ...

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 ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay fly fish for huge bluegill in a loaded spot.

" Wood" was The answer-or at least a very short and key part of it. Terry and Roxanne Wilson are a husband-wife fly fishing team, authors and recognized experts on fly fishing for pan-fish. They ...

Put something in front of a panfish that looks more like what they normally eat and you often don't need bait. Panfish live in a wonderful underwater world. A world that consists of plants, wood, sand ...

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