If you happen to be hanging around any serious bream fishermen in recent days, you might think they had become possessed. Walking around staring at the sky, these anglers appear to have been taken ...

If you enjoy catching big bluegill, go right now! Bluegill and shellcracker are bedding hot and heavy on Chickamauga. Chances are Nickajack and other lakes are in the same mode, although I haven't ...

My grandfather was born and raised in the tiny town of Nauvoo near Dyersburg, Tennessee. Like many poor southern families, the Butler clan moved north to find work in the 1940s. Unable to let go of ...

ARKANSAS — I like to call him “the Bream Master.” During the more than 30 years I’ve been traveling the country and fishing with experts of all stripes, I’ve never met anyone who knows more about ...

Ask any angler what’s the first fish they caught, and the majority will answer, “Bream.” Young anglers learn their fishing basics from catching bream. Ounce-for-ounce, these fish are scrappers and can ...

“Bream” is the colloquial name given to a gregarious set of panfish species in the South. Typically, a bream is a bluegill, but the name can include red-ear sunfish, also known as shellcrackers, ...

On many blue-ribbon, bream-fishing waters, there's a saying: The best time to fish for bream is in late spring and early summer, during or near the time when the moon is full. Something mystical ...

It can sometimes be tough to catch big bluegills as the spring spawning season begins. When bream get on their nests, they are easily spooked. We may see clues to their presence — a protruding dorsal ...

At first glance, the oxbow doesn't appear to be a good bream-fishing lake. No brush, weed beds or timber are present to offer cover. In fact, there's no visible cover at all, just a broad, U-shaped ...