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	Goggle-eyes May 15 at 7:00 am This large species of bream is properly called a “warmouth.” Its large mouth —larger than any other species of bream — and its more-elongated body shape have led some people (who should know better) to believe that they are hybrids between bluegills and bass.

	Slick Perch/Slicks May 15 at 7:00 am This species, with the book name of “green sunfish,” is one of the most interesting of Louisiana’s bream species.

	What a mouth! May 15 at 7:00 am The goggle-eye is, with the possible exception of a spawning bull bluegill, the prettiest of the bream clan. Males are especially beautiful, with a body mottled with bright orange and olive and a bright red spot behind each gill cover and at the rear base of the dorsal fin.

	Bream hybrids May 15 at 7:00 am Sunfish hybridize more than any other family of freshwater or saltwater fish. Often a successful day will yield 200 bream, and it’s a rare day when at least one hybrid between species isn’t in the bunch.

	Sunperch May 15 at 7:00 am 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.

	Chinquapins/Lake Runners May 15 at 7:00 am This bream, officially known as the redear sunfish, is named for the red-margined flap extending rearward from its gill cover.

	Stumpknockers May 15 at 7:00 am 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.

	Black Bayou Lake is pretty as a postcard May 15 at 7:00 am 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.

	Bluegills May 15 at 7:00 am 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.

	Change has come to Balck Bayou Lake May 15 at 7:00 am Freddie McMullen, now a successful 51-year-old Monroe orthodontist, spent his formative years on Black Bayou Lake.

	The bream of Louisiana May 15 at 7:00 am 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.

	Freddie McMullen’s hot Black Bayou Lake bream-fishing tips May 15 at 7:00 am • Catching bull bream is largely a matter of finding their spawning beds in the shallows near the lake edge.