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Sauger vs Walleye: Learn These Differences and Catch More!
Sauger and walleye are often confused because they look nearly identical to an untrained eye. Whether you’re a beginner angler or an expert who’s just not familiar with these fish, you’ve likely mixed them with …
How To Hold A Bluegill: Tips and Best Practices
The proper way to hold a Bluegill is to first be sure your hands are wet. Next, slide your hand down the fish starting at the mouth and move toward the belly. Keep your fingers …
How To Catch Wild Shiners For Bait (Step By Step W/Pics)
Wild shiners can cost as much as $50 per dozen! Ouch! Well, you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg at the bait shop to fish with wild shiners. In fact, chances are …
Crazy Facts About the World Record Crappie
While lepomid sunfish and black bass get the lion’s share of the love in the sunfish family centrarchidae, crappies in the genus poxomis are often ignored. They’re the bigger cousin of more common sunfish like …
What Size Hooks for Smallmouth Bass? Quick Guide
Pound for pound, smallmouth bass provide for some of the best fights that freshwater fishing can allow. If you want to hook up on trophy bronzebacks, however, you absolutely need to know what size hooks …
Large and in Charge-Mouth: 10 of the Best Bass Lures of All Time (And Where to Buy Them)
The largemouth bass is a sportfishing icon, the most sought-after gamefish in the entire country and introduced the world over. No matter where you go, you’ll find people with bass fever, and no shortage of …
About Panfish Nation
My name is Adam, and if you’re anything like me you love to go fishing.
I created Panfish Nation to help anglers of all backgrounds become better freshwater fishermen, and that starts at the source; Panfish!
Panfish represent the foundation of freshwater fishing. They are found all over the world, they come in all shapes and sizes, and they are both predators and prey.
Millions of anglers all over the world can think back to their very first fish, that first exciting catch…and chances are it was a panfish.
Mine was bluegill in a small neighborhood pond caught on a piece of hotdog…what was yours?