Fishing News and Information

	Sunperch Fishermen call two species of bream “sunperch:” the longear sunfish and the dollar sunfish. Both are brilliantly jewel-like in coloration, plastered in red-oranges and yellows and covered with turquoise reticulations. MORE ...

	Chinquapins/Lake Runners This bream, officially known as the redear sunfish, is named for the red-margined flap extending rearward from its gill cover. MORE ...

	Stumpknockers This pretty little fish, properly known as a spotted sunfish, is quite often caught by bluegill fishermen who are fishing in sluggish streams, swamps and lowland lakes. Most look at them and shrug their shoulders because they don’t know what they are, judge them to be a little too small to clean and toss them back overboard. MORE ...

	Looking for Toledo Bend bream in all the right places Toledo Bend is vast, so there are myriad areas in which to look for bream beds. MORE ...

	Never cut an anchor lose again Bream will stack up where tangles of cover is scattered along the lake bottom, and that means anchoring often results in anchor hang-ups. MORE ...

	Groving deep-hooked fish Any slack in the line will allow fish to swallow the hook pretty deep. And the small mouths of bream can make it difficult to remove them. MORE ...

	A better anchor Although Lyle Soileau definitely uses a standard anchor, he also has another tool to help hold his pontoon boat in place. MORE ...

	Black Bayou Lake is pretty as a postcard Black Bayou Lake, the centerpiece of the Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge, is pretty as a postcard. The 2,000-acre, cypress tree-studded lake holds vast beds of American lotus, a plant with huge, lily pad-like leaves up to 3 feet across and beautiful 6-inch yellow flowers. MORE ...

	Bluegills This feisty species is definitely the backbone of the bream fishery. It gets big — for a bream —at 10 inches, and during its summer-long spawning season forms dense beds of nests. Like all members of the sunfish family, the nest is formed by the male and guarded from before spawning until the young have hatched and left the beds. MORE ...

	Change has come to Balck Bayou Lake Freddie McMullen, now a successful 51-year-old Monroe orthodontist, spent his formative years on Black Bayou Lake. MORE ...

	The bream of Louisiana The word “bream” (pronounced “brim”) is a Southernism. Our northern friends call them by their proper species name, or they lump them all together as sunfish — which sounds altogether too sissy-like. In the South, we talk about bull bream. MORE ...

	Freddie McMullen’s hot Black Bayou Lake bream-fishing tips • Catching bull bream is largely a matter of finding their spawning beds in the shallows near the lake edge. MORE ...