These are our favorite lures, flies, and live bait options for catching giant bluegills and other panfish species.

Learn expert techniques to catch finicky winter bluegills. From downsizing your jig to mastering finesse techniques, these ...

Indiscriminate feeders, bluegill readily eat live crickets and various earthworms. The local tackle shop is a good starting point for bait, but if time permits, involving young anglers in digging ...

These versatile lures will be referred to in this article as “panfish jigs,” but the truth is they can be used to catch just about any species that swims. I once took a small tackle box of ...

A light jig quivering in place can draw strikes from finicky winter bluegills. / Joe Shead Drop a worm in the water on a summer day and just try to not catch a bluegill. But in winter, sometimes ...

A popular panfish lake in recent years has been the expansive East Harbor waters on the Marblehead Peninsula, where ice ...