The bluegills and pumkinseed sunfish are starting to fan out nest now. At Lake Union, Blueberry, and Washington the pumkinseeds are on the nest and are very easy to catch. I like to find an area that has lots of sparse under water weeds, hard bottom, and a few logs to find the largest concentration of spawning sunfish. A lot of times the sunfish will spawn on open sandy flats with sparse weeds to avoid areas that hold a lot of bass to protect themselves from becoming lunch lol :D . The same type of area that perch spawn in is were you will find the bluegills and pumkinseeds and they will often be mixed in together but a good rule to follow is that if you are catching to many perch you have found the right area but are fishing too deep. Stay in the same area but move up to water just a little more shallow and you should find the sunfish and can most times watch them on the nest and cast right to them.

For bait I like to use brown, yellow, red/wht, or black 1/64 jigs tipped with a maggot under a small bobber. I like to use maggots (spikes) because you can catch 5 or 6 fish before you have to change bait and you can cast far and not worry about your bait flinging off the hook. You can also tip the jig with worm, or just use a number 8 hook with crickets that you buy at the pet store. Cast around the edges of sparse pads and shallow weed edges and should be able to have a fishfry.