Time to break out the bream-buster poles and the crickets--panfish are on the beds across Alabama. It's the one time of year when this bass-crazy state may see nearly as many boats launched to chase ...

SOME SAY a big shellcracker is the most mysterious fish in freshwater. Properly called a redear sunfish, it’s three times the size of a keeper bluegill, on average, and just as delicious. But it’s ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – If bluegill and shellcrackers (also known as bream) routinely grew to weights of 5-6 pounds or more, we would have far less bass tournaments on the nation's waters. Pound for ...

Some years, panfish fans find that there is a brief lull in catches during late March and early April. During this period, the speckled perch that had recently inhabited the shallow spawning cover in ...