Late in the 1980s, my family moved from LaMoure to Valley City, N.D. I'd fished the Jim River and Lake LaMoure before the move and enjoyed an array of fish, from pike to perch and even the lowly carp.

If you love catching fish — not just fishing, but the actual act of reeling in another one — then there is nothing like the bluegill spawn. When hordes of big aggressive bull bluegills gather in the ...

If you love catching fish, not just fishing, but the actual act of reeling in another one, then there is nothing like the bluegill spawn. When hordes of big aggressive bull bluegills gather in the ...

I don't really understand why bluegill spawning areas are called beds. I don't think the fish there are ever sleeping. Perhaps they would better be called nests. Regardless of what they are called, ...

Summer has arrived when you can cruise shallow in a boat on a sunny day and watch bluegills swarm and dimple the water’s surface. Things get really serious when you find males approaching spawning ...

Bluegill fishing is simple. That’s really why I love it so much. I’ve often said life is stressful, so fishing shouldn’t be. I’m glad there are bass tournaments and the anglers who fish them. Those ...

The Marine Corps has a mantra: Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. I got a chance to see this in action recently, but in a very atypical way — some bluegill building their nests. A landowner called me and ...

Everyone who has ever dangled a worm in Michiana waters knows how much fun they can be to catch – and equally good to eat. Especially this year. It’s the bluegill spawning season throughout the area ...

If you love catching fish -- not just fishing, but the actual act of reeling in another one -- then there is nothing like the bluegill spawn. When hordes of big aggressive bull bluegills gather in the ...