Field Reports
Catch and cook: Panfish galore on cypress trees
Marsh Man Masson and his son, Joel, went to the river to see how many crappie, bluegill, bass, goggleye and chinquapin they could catch.[…]
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Field Reports
Eating bluegill I caught in a roadside ditch
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went roadside fishing and caught bluegill to cook up for dinner.[…]
Field Reports
Whacking big bluegill in the swamp
Todd Masson and Chris Macaluso went exploring in a South Louisiana swamp that was unfamiliar water for both of them.[…]
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Loading up on bluegill from a roadside ditch
In this video, Jared Serigné caught bluegill from a roadside ditch. Then he cooked them up right there on the bayou with a camp stove.[…]
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Loading up on bluegill for dinner
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went out to catch bluegill for a fried fish dinner inspired by Raising Cane’s.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Arcadia angler catches Louisiana state record bluegill
When Tim Trahan of Arcadia caught a 2.24-pound bluegill on May 30, 2022 he momentarily thought he was hooked into a sheepshead in Houma where he was born and raised.[…]
Crappie/Bream
A more perfect fishing union
Fishing the Union Oilfield Canals located east of Lake Palourde and southeast of Grassy Lake for bluegills, chinquapins and longear sunfish.[…]
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Species spotlight: Bluegill
Bluegill are a favorite among almost every angler, and these sunfish are found everywhere and revered where they’re found.[…]
Crappie/Bream
Hit the Basin now for beastly goggle-eye, bluegill
Darren Cooper and I sat in Doiron’s Store at 6:30 a.m., waiting for an early morning thunderstorm to pass over the lower Atchafalaya Basin. It had been several years since we had gotten together to catch bream in the huge swamp — and a slowly falling Atchafalaya River gave great promise to our day.[…]
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Po-boy panfish — How to catch lake runners, bluegill and catfish in Bayou Lacombe
You know how it goes: After slurping through a few pounds of spicy boiled crawfish you start craving a something a little heavier and crunchier.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
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.[…]
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Buggin’ bluegill
The sounds are unmistakable. SSSLURP! POP! SMACK!
When bluegill rise to grab surface meals, they know they’re vulnerable to bass, ospreys, herons and other predators. Therefore, they have to be sure of a worthwhile payoff, and nature provides plenty in the way of aquatic insects and other bugs that fall to the water’s surface.[…]
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Trying to manage bluegills can be tricky
Bluegills are a member of the sunfish family, Centrarchidae. The two largest members of the family are largemouth black bass and spotted black bass.[…]