Thread: Locating bream beds

good idea Dickie

Round here you can smell em out, it will knock you outta the boat, smells like ripe watermelons to me. In my home state of SC i would catch alot of gills and not ever smell the beds. Just pick a cove or section of the lake and fish it well like dickie said. Fish everyspot on the bank and if you find a bed they will hammer it. Dont fish like alot of guys i see who just sit in one spot and fish, you gotta stay on the move and when you catch one throw back in the same spot and if its a bed it will happen time and time again, if they dont hit it again, move on. You cant always see the beds so dont rely on sight, if it rains the water gets all stirred up and you cant see anything anyway. I like to use crickets under a small cork.

if you found beds last year there should be some in the same general area from year to year at least it seems that way to me

yep, bream will bed in the same spot year after year. I have beds back home that me and my dad found when i was little and still going back to em and gettin on fish.

Don't fish beds, give the fish a chance - not a challenge.

Originally Posted by Flyrod Man

Don't fish beds, give the fish a chance - not a challenge.

I bed fish very little anymore, for a couple of reasons:

1) I'm not always free to fish during the best times (full moon.)

2) The fish just get hammered at that time of year. Everybody's fishing for them.

My best fishing is almost always after the spawn. Most people ignore them once the spawn is done, which means I have them mostly to myself.

Originally Posted by Flyrod Man

Don't fish beds, give the fish a chance - not a challenge.

Your joking right? thats like saying dont deer hunt during the rut.

Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun

Your joking right? thats like saying dont deer hunt during the rut.

Deer hunting has a specific season, though. You have to hunt during the rut. There's no season for bluegill. You can catch them year round.