Top Flies for Summer Bluegills. The beauty of fly fishing for bluegills is that fly selection isn’t very complicated. Considering that pretty much any bluegill will sip a cricket, slurp a bit of worm, ...

Bluegills are most aggressive, and eager to smack a dry fly, during the spawning phase. Water temperature will be your best indicator, with most bluegills navigating to the beds once lakes hit ...

Their endurance, coupled with a willingness to take a top water fly and fight like a young Mike Tyson, bluegills make any real angler smile. For trout anglers looking to change up their fly-fishing ...

Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, sweet, ...

Scientific Angler sells a panfish fly kit with rod, reel, and line for $120. It also comes with a hard case for the rod. I've seen other combos at L.L. Bean and Cabela's.

LAPEER COUNTY -- Fly fishing usually brings to mind images of Hemingway-esque men in waders, casting for that elusive brookie or brown in classic trout stream waters. Courtesy photoDave Wermuth of ...

Bluegills often slip up onto a fly, take it into their mouth and spit it out again without the angler even knowing it. He was right, and I still fish that way for 'gills to this day.

Harry Allen looks like a man in his early 40s, but he was born 51 years ago at the old Holland hospital on Main Street in Leesburg where Spanish Oaks apartments now sit. Harry looks younger than he… ...

Fly fishing often adheres to the high-brow etiquette of catch-and-release only. However, priggish decorum aside, it is undeniable that fresh-caught trout are delicious.

The white fly line shot low over the water and unfurled, ... A bluegill shot to the surface to inhale it. The fish was only about 8 inches, but it was classic summer flyfishing for bluegills.