: a common sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) of the eastern and central U.S. sought for food and sport
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Try crickets or worms for bluegill.
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Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
While in the park, visitors can boat on Seneca Lake or in the nearby Greenbrier River, explore 23 miles of hiking and biking trails, or fish for trout, bass, and bluegill.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
The 15,000-plus-acre reservoir is ideal for bass, crappie, and bluegill fishing.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
The trout fishing is particularly good—thanks to those cooler waters—but anglers also have the chance to catch smallmouth and largemouth bass, black crappie, and bluegill.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
While in the park, visitors can boat on Seneca Lake or in the nearby Greenbrier River, explore 23 miles of hiking and biking trails, or fish for trout, bass, and bluegill.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
The 15,000-plus-acre reservoir is ideal for bass, crappie, and bluegill fishing.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
The trout fishing is particularly good—thanks to those cooler waters—but anglers also have the chance to catch smallmouth and largemouth bass, black crappie, and bluegill.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
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bluegill
noun
blue·gill
ˈblü-ˌgil 
: a common food and sport sunfish of the eastern and central U.S.
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