MUSKEGO, Wis. There's not much to a popper just a small hook, a piece of painted cork, a hackle and some tail feathers. But tied to the business end of a fly line leader and cast onto the still ...

I took all my fly rods and reels out of their cases this week and cleaned them up and put on fresh leaders. I did an inventory of my bluegill and bass popping bugs, and dug out the boxes with ...

It was just about a perfect evening by the old pond. The lily pads extended out to about 10 or 15 feet from the shore in an uneven outline with many circle-like openings within them that seemed to be ...

There are few pleasures in the sport of fishing that can match that of taking trout, bass, bluegill or other fish on a fly of your own creation. On cold winter evenings with a bitter wind rattling the ...

Bluegill are probably one of my favorite kinds of fish. They are relatively easy to catch, super fighters and downright good table fare. My Grandma used to want the bluegill, if we were lucky enough ...

Sometime in the next month, you need to go fishing for bluegill. Go once by yourself or with other adults and get the tactics that catch a mess of them figured out, and then the next time take a bunch ...

Rick Pope calls bluegills the most important fish that swim. The Dallas-based founder of Temple Fork Outfitters, a fishing rod company, has caught huge trout, surface-dancing dorado and even a white ...