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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – The bass, the trout, the crappie and even the catfish get the headlines, but bream are the most numerous of fish caught and taken home for eating by Arkansas anglers. First, the ...

Crappie fishing and bass fishing is waning in intensity, but bream fishing is nearing its peak. Bream, a generic term for sunfish that includes bluegill, redear, longear and green sunfish, inhabit ...

Years ago, in a fit of pique over a dud fishing trip to Wisconsin, I wrote a column belittling the lowly bream. My feelings were hurt after having made a long trip for walleyes and northern pike and ...

If you’re hungry for some fresh fish, now is a great time to fill a cooler with bream. Bream, a collective term that encompasses a number of sunfish, generally refers to bluegill, redear ...

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 ...

Hot weather in Arkansas accompanies hot bream fishing, especially now near the first full moon of summer. Bluegill sunfish spawn on each summer full moon, but anglers look forward to the June bluegill ...

There are times that the scientific community and the general layman disagree on what to call things in the natural world around them. One common example of this in the plant kingdom is the Juniper ...

Tom Gossett checked the shade line on the water caused by the morning sun and cast a cricket where his instincts told him the big bream would be. His brightly colored, weighted foam cork disappeared ...

Sunfish launch most angling careers. They are perfect for the job — abundant, found in almost any patch of freshwater larger than a puddle, social creatures often so aggressive and indiscriminate in ...

Bass and crappie tend to get the most attention in Mississippi, but few will argue that any fish tastes better than a golden fried bream fillet. And although they are among the smallest of Mississippi ...