Thread: lures for bream

What lures work best for casting to bream?

also, is it more productive just to float the lure without much movement?

I have caught a bluegill and a shellcracker casting a small 1/16 or 1/32 beetlespin in white/red dot but find live crickets and nightcrawlers to be far more effective.

By nature, will bream chase down a lure or the lure must be presented on its nose, literally?

My early morning adventures involve getting to my fishing hole before the tackle shops are open.

I gotta admit, I'm not much of an artificial guy when it comes to panfish. That said, I'd have to say a close second would be rubber-legged spiders and a fly rod, then small spinners like Mepps Rooster Tails and Beetle Spins.

I hear 'ya on the baitshop thing, which was why I ordered 1,000 crickets last week. Now if/when the urge hits me, I can just grab what I need and go. Look in the Live Bait Forum if you have an interest, lots cheaper and more convenient, plus pretty easy to do (if I can do it it's gotta be easy Rofl).

Originally Posted by bluefish1928

What lures work best for casting to bream?

See here:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...orked-you.html

... and here:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...cker-bait.html

They're sticky threads for a reason.

I catch the majority of mine on crickets and worms/cause thats what i fish with most.But must say i did some crank bait fishing for them earlier this year and caught some nice ones!

I've caught them on maribou jigs (1/16 oz I think) by doing a reel/pause retrieve in shallow water. Also caught them vertical jigging by pinching the "tail" off of a small tube jig and threading the body on a 1/32 oz jig head. I tip it with a wax worm or crappie bite. Also catch them on small beetle spin sometimes around by casting around shallow wood/rocks.

Most of the time I have a dozen night crawlers in the fridge. They live for a couple of weeks. I just use a 1/2" length of worm under a float. One chunk of worm is usually good for 1-3 fish so I get alot of mileage out of a dozen nightcrawlers.

Black 1 inch slider jigs on red or black i/32 head .

Eagle,

Do you rig the slider weedless...or with the hook exposed??

Originally Posted by tnvol

eagle,

do you rig the slider weedless...or with the hook exposed??

exposed .

Originally Posted by eagle 1

Black 1 inch slider jigs on red or black i/32 head .

Black is best! Size 8 hook in a 64th or 32nd oz black jig head. 1" Black twister grubs, 1" black GULP leeches, 1" Little Atom black Teasers. Best deep and for best size off the outside weedline up here. If you are catching dinks, move, by this time of the year the sizes of sunfish tend not to mix all that much. For me it also takes 2# line to get the light jig heads down with proper line control.

Originally Posted by eagle 1

Black 1 inch slider jigs on red or black i/32 head .

I like the black with black head & green pumpkin with white head. On a 1/64 or 1/32 oz ball head without the collar.

I also throw 1 1/2" sliders and 2" hot grub curly tail. And on occasion I throw small cranks.

Nate