Sunfish in streams

[Paul Arnold]

This is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. When fishing in a stream for sunfish such as bluegills, should I read the water just as I would read it for trout -- fish current seams, eddies, pools, tails of pools, etc. -- or do sunfish have stream preferences different from trout?

[CoachBob]

Sunfish don't like working for food or fighting current. Focus on sheltered quiet waters. You can fish a seam by the edge of the quiet water and a panfish may come out to attack, but it'll be waiting in the still waters.

[Thomas]

I fish small streams a lot for bream and mostly find them in deeper pools and around any woody cover,and mostly they are caught on bead head nymphs under a indicator,not too many on dries unlike on lakes and ponds.

[EdD]

Sunfish like structure, not current. Woody debris, rocks, drop-offs, et... Sometimes they hover r ever beds of twigs and leaves in calm water. The debris beneath them can harbor large numbers of nymphs. Good luck.

Ed

[Uncle Jesse]

When they are bedded up (usually several times in the summer down here) you can smell the bed. Musky smell that you will realize is fishy.