Depending on the water temperatures in March, bream can be found in many locations, varying from their wintering areas to shallower waters where they prepare to spawn. When the temperature of the water is at its coolest the fish hold around deep structures, such as brush piles or deep-water points in 15 or more feet of water. They also hang around deep-water docks, especially if there is sunken cover beneath.
As water temperatures warm into the 60s, these fish move towards their spawning areas and can be caught on shallow flats or along creek channel banks near stumps and brush piles. Casting to docks located in transitioning areas between deeper water and shallow banks also brings results. Bream feed at all levels of the water column and eat almost anything that they can get into their small mouths. They scour the bottom and feed around aquatic vegetation at mid-depths.
Redears, often referred to as shellcrackers, eat very small mollusks. All species of bream take insects off of the surface, as well as insect larvae, snails and worms on the bottom. Keep your tackle lightweight and they will provide a good fight. Red worms, crickets, mealworms, grubs, maggots and most any small invertebrate makes good bait for panfish.
Small spinnerbaits and jigs work well too. Bream will clobber a small popping bug and are a lot of fun to land on a lightweight fly rod. They will take a rubber spider or really any small fly that they can get their mouth on. These aggressive fish even grab lures that are obviously too large to swallow.
Bluegills are perhaps the most abundant and widespread of the bream species. They may even rank at the top of the list of our nation's most targeted game fish. They live in schools of 20 to 30 fish and inhabit about any type of freshwater. A good-size bluegill runs about 10 to 12 inches in length and in the larger specimens their girth measures as much as their length. A big bluegill weighs a pound or more. Redears may not be caught as often as their bluegill cousins, but they can be more tenacious and grow larger.
These shellcrackers tend to feed closer to the bottom and in deeper water than the bluegills. Firefly Old Mossy Horns. If this warm weather keeps up it shouldn't be long for the Bream to start.
Oldtimers used to tell me you could catch Bream when the Dogwoods started to bloom in the Spring.. I love fishing with crickets. Bream will tear them up. Been seeing some movement on the pond lately so will probably try a few Friday. Good rule of thumb was always when the dogwoods bloomed, crappie were on the beds. When blackberries bloomed, bliegills were on the beds.
MJ74 Old Mossy Horns. I havent been bream fishing in years but i loved it and your hard pressed to find a better tasting fish. Boojum Ten Pointer. They start biting a long time before the dogwoods bloom. THey don't bed until later, but they don't have to be bedding for you to catch them. Mack in N. Old Mossy Horns. They dont ever quit biting. Click to expand Have some friends In Il and Id and they posted some impressive pics back in Dec.
They feed on many different things, so a wide variety of baits and lures will catch them. The record is a 1 pound, 12 ounce fish caught in Florida in Warmouth are stocky sunfish like weedbeds and will tolerate muddy water better than many other sunfish. It has a big mouth for a sunfish and looks much like a rock bass. It is dark with lighter areas between black verticle lines or bars. Native to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River area, it has been introduced to many other areas.
It is not sought after by most anglers but is good to eat. Green Sunfish look a lot like a warmouth or rock bass, with brown to olive green bodies with a lighter belly that is yellow-green. Emerald or bluish spots on the head and wavy or radiating lines help identify them. They are found naturally throughout the eastern and central US and into Canada and northern Mexico.
They have been introduced east of the Appalachians and on the west coast of the US, too. They are good to eat with white flaky meat and will hit earthworms, small live baits, spinners and most flies and poppers. There are other species of bream common to some areas.
They are all fun to catch. Grab a pole and a can of worms and go fishing. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
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