Benmin Smith

If you’re not looking in the right place, you’ll be spending most of your morning staring into an empty pot of water. Bluegill are quite deceptive; they has a natural ability to stay off the radar until it’s too late. They’re in the spot, and it looks perfect, but you make your cast and…nothing. It’s … Read more

Much like most people, I’ve always believed that fly fishing are complicated and requires all fancy gadgets and complex mechanics to be successful. On television, you see these guy making cast after cast with precise loops cutting through air, and you figure the fish must notice. That’s when bluegill fishing blows the fantasy out of … Read more

Typically bluegill fishing are easy. Cast it out there, put on a nightcrawler, watch your bobber go down and pick up a sunfish. It is easy. It is accessible. And if you’re teaching children how to fish, it’s perfectly suited for teaching them patience. Then sometimes it’s not. Something unexpected rise from the weeds. Your … Read more

Bluegill fishing can be frustrating. You’re out there sitting beside water casting a tiny hook with a worm on it waiting to see if anything bite. Then, when nothing does, you cast again. Again. And again. The bass guys around you is slapping big noisemakers around that don’t even look like a panfish should be … Read more

Although bluegill aren’t about size, targeting them with a small plastic is great training for precision, feel, and paying attention to the water column. Because most guys view ’em as warmup fish there’s nothing wrong with that if you’re just killing some time. But practicing casting accuracy at bluegill will translate into better casts when … Read more