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 ...

Fly fishing is synonymous with trout. When most people think about fly fishing, they conjure images of mountain streams and fish sipping mayflies and caddisflies off the surface. It’s true that the ...

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 ...

Bream or bluegills are in shallow water spawning throughout much of the First Coast, and great fishing for the tasty panfish is available in almost any pond, lake, creek or river that isn't too salty.

Beneath the overhanging limb, pressed up against a weed bed, the fish swirled and struck and slapped at anything that moved. Getting at them would be difficult but it looked like the rewards would be ...

Do this one thing, and you will increase your catch rate by getting your fly in front of more fish. I've written about this before, but it is worth repeating. If you're not comfortable fishing with a ...

There’s more than one way to catch freshwater bass and panfish on a fly rod. That was evident among the three winners of Mister Flyrod titles, the annual championships that go to the top anglers in ...

Much of the year, a flyrod, like a golf club, is an instrument ill-suited to its designed purpose. This is particularly true around public bass lakes of the south, where it takes some real dedication ...