When most people think about bream fishing, they think about lazy summertime days sitting on a dock watching a cricket or a red worm dangling beneath a bobber. Others may ...

Nearly everyone that loves to fish likely started their fishing career by catching bream. This initiation rite is not everyone’s story, but the vast majority of every anglers first fish was a bream.

Like most fishermen, the first fish I caught was a bream – from Georgia’s Lake Sinclair at a family picnic in 1959. The bream I caught was a bluegill, but depending on where you grew up, your first ...