Thread: Top 10 Artificial Bream Baits

My top ten would be in the following order,
1. 55mm Squidgy wriggler tail on a 1/16oz lunker city lunkergrip jighead
2. 1.5in Charlie Brewer Slider grub rigged same as above
3. panfish assassin tomato seed
4. lunker city finesse shad 1.5in
5. southern pro lures triple tip tail. motoroil gold flake
6. bass proshops cajun crawler
7. berkely ribbon tail power grub 2in.
8. sponge spiders
9. ecogear sx40 crankbaits from Australia
10.berkley power nymph

my two cents: green spittinimage/popeye with a fat waxworm, use repeatedly until cooler is full!!!!

The only thing I ever use is the Rooster Tail in firetiger. I go fishing on the Brazos River here in Texas, and that lure just tears em up. I call it my "Brazos Bomber."

1 ligon bream killer (black w/white legs)
2 1/32 oz beetle spin (black w/chart stripes)
3 1/80 grizzly tipped with waxworm or powerbait

if they won't hit those better go home or go git dem crickets. During the spawn I belive you can catch just as many on artificials. If the water is more dingy than normal live bait definitely works better for me. I get alot of short strikes if the water is ditier than whatever is normal for that area.

Black Bream Killer with white legs on a Little Joe (Hildebrand) silver spinner.

Ther is a wealth of information here.

Here are a couple of flies that work well on panfish and bass.

My Myakka Minnow:


Simply but deadly No. 12 bead-head nymph: