In the heat of summer, I go back to my early days of fly fishing as a teenager. An elderly uncle, Demp Ramsey, taught me the art of fly fishing in the summer of 1977. Demp was his given name, but ...

Crappie fishing and bass fishing is waning in intensity, but bream fishing is nearing its peak. Bream, a generic term for sunfish that includes bluegill, redear, longear and green sunfish, inhabit ...

THE FLY LINE straightens out 3 feet above the water, and the popping bug hits the pond with a pleasing splat. I see the popper try to roll over, which tells me I have a bit of twist in the leader that ...

The classic way to fish for bluegill/sunfish (hereinafter referred to generically as bluegills) is casting a size 10 or 12, rubber-legged popping bug or spider with a light fly rod and floating line.

Let's face it, it's hard to beat fishing for bluegill. Watching a cork go under or seeing a popping bug disappear in a splash; it's just plain fun. The icing on the cake comes when the oil gets hot.

“Bream” is the colloquial name given to a gregarious set of panfish species in the South. Typically, a bream is a bluegill, but the name can include red-ear sunfish, also known as shellcrackers, ...

CATCHING FISH ON THE SURFACE ranks at the top of every fly fisherman's list of exciting fishing methods. Beginning in late spring, throughout the summer and into early fall, fly fishing with a popper ...