FRESHWATER: The Kissimmee Chain has been decent for bass, crappie and good for bluegills and shellcrackers. Fish the canals connecting the lakes for bass. Lake Kissimmee has also been productive. Fish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don’t usually write twice about the same person, but this is some freshwater information I think you will be interested in. It concerns fly fishing for bream and shellcrackers. Last Saturday, Roy ...

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 ...

FRESHWATER: Lake Toho has been good for bass and shellcrackers. Fish shell beds with Carolina-rigged plastic worms for bass. You can also find them near points and Kissimmee grass. Use swimbaits, ...