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Full moon = bedding bream

March 24, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

When redear and bluegill are bedding, you can find them sharing the same areas. There’s a good chance you’ll find them after a full moon. […]

Chotard Lake, an oxbow off the Mississippi River, is famous for producing hand- and ice chest filling catches of bluegill. Alex Stuart uses worms and crickets to get a mess for dinner.

Bluegill fishing on Lake Chotard and Eagle Lake

July 1, 2015 David Hawkins

Those of us dragging 65 or more years behind us remember when fishing at Lake Chotard meant double-checking river gages, crossing the Little Sunflower River and Steele Bayou on a barge ferry powered by a Ford Model A engine, and dodging potholes along a muddy road to reach Laney’s Fish Camp.

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Taylor Pratt of Canton strains to hold some of the bluegill that were biting on a trip with his grandfather on April 1.

Bluegill, not chinquapins, were hot

April 6, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

The moon’s reflection in the water was nearly full circle, which is why the plan was to find an active bed of redear bream, a.k.a. chinquapin or shellcracker. […]

Bluegills vs. redear

March 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

Commonly lumped together in many circumstances under the handle bream, the bluegill and redear sunfish share many common characteristics. […]

Bluegill are colonial nesters, with the larger fish setting up shop in the middle of “beds.”

Bluegill Spawning

August 1, 2012 Hal Schramm

As explained in the July issue of Mississippi Sportsman, bluegill are fairly unique among most warm-water fishes in that they spawn throughout the summer. […]