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.

Fishing duo Cole & Jay discover that spawning bluegill season brings an unexpected complication to their fishing plans.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s as absolute as anything in fishing: Bluegill spawn on the first full moon in May, which this year, is today. This is hardly a firm scientific fact. Tradition, folklore and generations of ...

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 ...