The bluegill is the most common and widely known species in the sunfish family. Bluegills are beloved by anglers across North America. Many of us—this author included—got our start catching them in ...

There are times that the scientific community and the general layman disagree on what to call things in the natural world around them. One common example of this in the plant kingdom is the Juniper ...

Sunfish is a collective term that includes a variety of fish species that live and reign in still, warm water like ponds and lakes. Taxonomically speaking, there are 17 species of fish in the ...

Social media users have been sharing an image of a bluegill fish with text that warns readers about the species being one of the most dangerous in North America. This claim is false. Examples can be ...

Bluegills, the ubiquitous catch of most anglers across the United States. Found from border to border, from puddles and ponds to great lakes and rivers, the fish thrive wherever they swim. Their ...

WABASHA, Minn. - Almost anybody who enjoys the sport of fishing has an affection for the bluegill. It's not the largest or most glamorous species, but bluegills can be found in most bodies of water ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) has added approximately 200,000 bluegills to the Virgil R. Hazelett Reservoir at Cobbs Creek in Cumberland County.

Terry Nelson was ice fishing in late December on Lindstrom Lake, located just north of Minneapolis, when he caught a once-in-a-lifetime panfish. “I thought, ‘What is this? I have never seen anything ...

FARMINGTON, W.Va. — When most of us think of bluegill, the first thing which comes to mind if our first fishing experience. Almost everybody’s first fish was a bluegill. When we were age five or under ...