Thread: lures for bream

I have had good luck the past couple times out with these. I have been using the frog tiger mostly and the one right above it in the picture. I would love to try the bass color, but my local Wally World only carries a couple colors. I am going to have to try somewhere else. So far, bluegill, bass and crappie all hit them.

I've had a great time fishing with these. Bluegill, perch, and sometimes walleye love this little guy. I just put them on with a split shot 8" above for better casting and jig them on the bottom of the lake. I fish right off shore or a dock (6' to 8' FOW) and have a great time! You can get them from Nothland Fishing Tackle in Bemidji, MN.

I never really fished a lot of plastics before last summer (other then Mister Twisters) and I have to agree w/Bluegill buddy, those Northland 'Slurpies' as they call them work pretty well ... I fish a lot of docks & marinas and have been catching gills, sunnies, crappies, white bass, sm/lm bass (sheephead, blah!) on them all year ... silver shiner (#11) & perch (#23) are the two colors working best in my area.

Another Northland plastic I've been having a lot of success with this summer is the 'Mimic Minnow' shad tail, it has the absolute most realistic action I've ever seen ... when you jig it up and let if fall, it looks exactly like a baitfish swimming down. I catch the same type of fish & use the same colors, which are what seems to work best around here ... the noticeable difference between the 'Slurpies' and the 'Mimic Minnow' is I catch my larger fish with the Mimic.

The last bait that's been working for me & has actually been outfishing the other two after spring is the Berkley Gulp! Alive! Minnow, 1" - Black Shad ... not the ones you get in the container w/liquid, but the ones you get in the small, resealable bag. They're pretty versatile and are working well on jigs, drop-shot rigs or under a slip bobber ... I even put 'em on the Northland Mimic Minnow jigheads once in awhile & that works real well.

I've tried tipping all of them with waxworms on occassion, but haven't noticed any real difference in the bite pattern to matter and I was thinking about trying some of those 'crappie nibbles' on them eventually.

Hope this helps ... oh yeah, I just ordered a couple of those Yo-Zuri 'Snap Beans' lures and will be trying them out next week ... I've been told they're great for panfish, so if I have any luck with them, I'll let you know.

Caught about a dozen on this thing earlier in the year.

I caught them on a number of cranks. Early in the season I use Baby Bombers in Fire Tiger, Chrome and Blue,and Shad!When they start to move shallow I go with floaters made by Rapala 3's and 5's in shad, perch, and clown.Twitching them on top and crank and stop back to the boat if no bite on top!For Crackers, it's a redworm or cricket on bottom with a small split shot.When gills are staging at mouths of spawning coves, I locate them on sonar and fish 4 ultralite rods in holders with a cricket and splitshot. I loaded a cooler of bream one year fishing 19 ft. deep just in the mouth of a spawning cove.Later if the bream are not quite bedding but have moved further up into the cove, I will throw out rods, place them in holders and either let the wind or use the trolly motor and slowly drag those baits. Sometime they hit so hard they almost pull the rods out of the holders.Once they are on beds, I stay back, Anchor both ends of the boat and pitch tiny jigs with a tiny float or a collar hooked cricket starting outward from the bed fishing deeper for the gill who beds are deeper and work my way in slowly.Gotta love a big black male that you can hardly get your hand around!
OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!

Hey Retired, have you ever fished a small popping bug with a tiny wet fly hanging just below tied to the hook. Them gill hear that popper and look up and see that fly right in their face, one hits it and pulls the popper down only to have another hit the popper. Like pulling a boat anchor through the water.Fun when it happens but does cause a retie when you get 2 on.


OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!

black and yellow kiptail jig with red thread, 1/64 oz. with a white or pink crappie nibble. I use 2 or 4 pound line with a very small cork about the size of a nickel with the lead made into the bottom of the cork.

Seagullplayer is right about big gills and crappie loving the little strike king bitsy minnow crank bait! At the right time you cant hardly make a cast with one and not get a bite. Only problem is that it seems like you lose a lot of fish with them for some reason which gets frustrating! You dont lose them when they almost swallow it though like this crappie