He is the head guide at Blue Bank Resort on Reelfoot Lake, a bluegill lodestone folded into the northwest corner of Tennessee. When fishing a spawning bed, Blakley only puts male bluegill on ice.

We found a GIANT school of bedding bluegill/pumpkinseed that were Extremely aggressive and would eat our nightcrawlers immediately! We decided to drop the camera underwater to get footage of these ...

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but just between you and me my guess is it smells more like a bream bed than green cheese. But don't tell anyone; otherwise they might think I am prone to lunacy. Bluegill fishing tips Meanwhile ...

Summer bluegill fishing can be a deep subject ... swapping a spawning-bed splash for a hearty, deepwater tug. Thus it was last week that we scooted a half-mile across a small Roscommon County ...

Evidently, this is a team effort, since one bluegill bed might contain dozens of fish ... the only time the big ones are in shallow water. Fishing around the beds can be productive while the ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot Daily Bass Fishing ... Though bluegill are the most prevalent to do this throughout the country, shell crackers and other bream bed in a similar way, creating ...

If you love catching fish — not just fishing, but the actual act ... in a baste to supply a fish fry. Bluegills bed in large numbers. Search for bluegill beds in the shallows near the back ...

The common sunfish will go on bed with every full moon beginning ... Crickets and red worms are the most commonly used live baits for bluegill fishing in Alabama. Wigglers, catalpa worms, meal ...

Now the fish have scattered, with a few late bloomers on the bed, but most sulking here, there, and yonder in the pond. These days, the bluegill ... we mostly do while fishing and hunting: wait.