Tom Gossett checked the shade line on the water caused by the morning sun and cast a cricket where his instincts told him the big bream would be. His brightly colored, weighted foam cork disappeared ...

Crappie fishing and bass fishing is waning in intensity, but bream fishing is nearing its peak. Bream, a generic term for sunfish that includes bluegill, redear, longear and green sunfish, inhabit ...

So you want to catch the biggest bream swimming in your favorite Arkansas lake or pond? That certainly won’t be easy, but it’s sure to be a fun challenge. When a bluegill or redear sunfish gets to be ...

In summer, bream can be preoccupied with naturals, but once the natural larder declines and the fish feed up before the cold months ahead, you’ll find they become a lot more catchable. A lot of bream ...

Aware of the dividends it will pay through the coming year, most freshwater anglers are pleased that April has brought such nice, abundant rainfall. If they could change one thing, it would be to stop ...

I grew up in a fishing world — hunting, too, to be honest — that was seriously focused on bringing home something to eat. People ran trotlines on the river and filled up ice chests with as many fish ...

I’ve been getting ready to go down and search for shed antlers now that the season has closed, but I suddenly remembered something else I need to do. On the ranch where I hunt deer and turkeys, there ...

Tony Accardo had a pecan tree growing in the backyard of his north Baton Rouge home. While the legendary poppin’ bug maker, God rest his fly-fishing soul, used the pecans for all the fall holiday ...

Stories about sunfish the size of a saucer plate always grab my attention. Years ago, I heard about a North Carolina teenager named Travis Jackson who reeled in a real whopper from a neighbor’s stock ...

Although bream are among the smallest game fish, angler's appetites for these little delicacies are almost insatiable. Filleted or whole, the sight of golden fried bream bubbling in a pot of hot oil ...

Years ago, in a fit of pique over a dud fishing trip to Wisconsin, I wrote a column belittling the lowly bream. My feelings were hurt after having made a long trip for walleyes and northern pike and ...