Thread: Top 10 Artificial Bream Baits

1. Panfish Assassins with sickle hook jig heads.
2. Sassy Shad 2 and 3 inch with sickle hook jig heads
3. Southern Pro soft plastic jig bodies with sickle hook jig heads
4. Road Runner spinner jig heads with bubble belly soft plastic bodies
5. Jig heads with a lipped live minnow

I carry 11 boxes of assorted plastics as well as my hand tied jigs.

Smaller jig heads during warmer weather and larger during cooler weather.:D

Originally Posted by texascrappiefisherman

1. Panfish Assassins with sickle hook jig heads.
2. Sassy Shad 2 and 3 inch with sickle hook jig heads
3. Southern Pro soft plastic jig bodies with sickle hook jig heads

I am surprised at the sickle hook preference. I have tried switching back and forth to these and have found that I lose fish very regularly with the sickle hook jigs. Maybee im doing something wrong.

This is really getting nice now :D. I'll be checking some of these out here quickly before it gets too late in the year. Thanks again to EVERYONE who's posted on this thread, keep the great stuff coming.

Lots of good choices were posted here. I guess you would have to go by (or buy) your personal WFM or WW preference.

WW = Whatever works

WFM = Works for me

this thread would not be complete without mentioning the Mighty Mite...don't know why but the gills love those things...along with every other fish in the lake...I use the ones with the straight tails..."nail tails"

Whackmaster help me out, I am not familar with the Mighty Mite. Who makes it. I googled it and did not find any info.

I think this is what you're looking for:http://www.cubbylures.com/code/frame/index.html

I only target the brim in late spring and early summer and the artificial assortment I use is rather small. I like to take a beatle spin type spinner and attach a white 1/16 jig head and use a blue/white tube jig. With this I have caught Brim, crappie, bass(with some of those being big), catfish and a few grass carp. I use this on a little ultra lite berkley rod with a little trigger typs zebco reel and 6# test line. I know it was just dumb luck but two summers ago, my wife and I would fill the coolers everywhere we went with this combo. It was awesome. The latest bait that I have found that is loads of fun is the strike king bitsy minnow. This too catches all species around here. I use the same rod and reel combo and we have a blast with this little bait fishing at Tunica and Lakeview in North MS. These two locations grow some huge titty brim.