A man holds up a giant bluegill. As we head into summer, panfish are on the forefront of anglers’ minds. Catching big scrappy ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay battle giant bluegill on ultralight rods in one of their wildest fishing challenges yet.

There are certain things that seem to end up in the tackle box of every 7-year-old despite the fact that they’ll probably ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay break down expert-level panfish tactics for locating giant schools of aggressive bluegill.

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 ...

Giant bluegills, the same ones that carefully inspect your baits in midwinter with a fervent discernment few other fish possess, become decidedly less judicious when late spring arrives. Instead, they ...

The odds were against landing the big, toothy fish on the setup Matt Born had chosen, but he locked in and played the fish ...

Greta the Giant Bluegill has arrived at DuPage Children's Museum on loan from the Shedd Aquarium. The plastic debris used in artist Alan Hicks' sculpture was collected during one of Shedd's Great ...

Natural signs alert us to spring’s arrival. Dogwoods in bloom along wooded hillsides. The yellow flowers of forsythia bushes brightening up the dullness of the past winter. Emerging vegetation in ...

On successive casts this month, 13-year-old Joshua Thomas caught a 9-pound bass and then a near state-record 2-pound, 5-ounce bluegill from a tiny pond. “The perch fought harder than the bass,” Thomas ...