Thread: Plastics For Bream

I use the Trout Magnet with great success.


Regards

1/32 red or black road runner head and a 1 inch black slider body .

I agree with Alphahawk, trout magnets work better than anything else I've tried. You might try tipping it with a small piece of worm.

When I first started fishing for Crappie I fished with a friend who fished smaller lakes and ponds. He had a wooden jon boat and electric motor only. We trolled one rod a piece (this was the 70s in Georgia). We used 4# line with 1/32 oz. Hal Fly jigs mostly just two colors. Back then the Hal Flys were hair and not plastic. We used red head silver body white tail or black head silver body white tail.
My friend kept detailed records of all his trips and results. We found that trolling in one of these small lakes probably around 6 to 10 ft deep we would catch maybe 20 crappie and 15 Bream. Without fail, most of the crappie were caught on the red head and the Bream on the black head.
We never thought a whole lot about it but he had dozens of trips worth of data to back this up.
I was amazed that we could catch bream out in the middle of a lake trolling a jig of any color so it was all new to me. Later on the curly tail plastic grub came out and it seemed to catch more crappie and also Bass, but we caught less of the Bream on this type jig.
He moved to Oregon and I moved back to SC and we have not fished like that since then. On one of his recent trips to SC we got into a huge Bream bed on Lake Murray and he switched from crickets and red worms to a small jig and caught them as fast as we did on live bait.
Moral of the story is you can catch Bream on jigs just like Crappie.

In my experience the Crappie Sliders will outfish any other jig, plastic or otherwise, at least two to one, sometimes more. I rarely ever bother using any other artificial for bluegill. Just my $.02.

Originally Posted by tnpondmanager

In my experience the Crappie Sliders will outfish any other jig, plastic or otherwise, at least two to one, sometimes more. I rarely ever bother using any other artificial for bluegill. Just my $.02.

do you use the 1 inch or 2 inch ? I have never tried the 2 inch .

Originally Posted by Gill Fisher

But what are some other plastic baits that you guys have found to be effective when jigging for bream?

See the sticky threads at the top of the Bream forum main page.

Eagle, the 2-inch are all I use. My favorite colors are white with chartreuse tail, red/chartreuse, and black/chartreuse. I have never tried the 1-inch.