Steve Griffin: Panfish can easily get lost in autumn

As mid-September approached this year, trees as usual remained leafy green.
Whitetail does and twin fawns tentatively ventured into bright winter wheat fields.

Loons that had swam, sung, and fished on this northern Lower Michigan lake were now doing it somewhere southward. A cluster of wood ducks buzzed it, though, and around it oaks white and red had begun sprinkling acorns. Meanwhile panfish, especially bluegills and their close kin, were sliding toward their seasonal anonymity.

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