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 ...

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 ...

For most anglers it all starts with some species of sunfish. At some point, Dad or Grandad handed us a rod with a bobber and worm at a local creek or lake, and the fishing addiction began. The funny ...

Panfish aren't the most glamorous species caught by fishermen wetting their lines in the famed Santee Cooper lakes — Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie — where anglers travel from across the country to ...