Thread: Big bream/where

Big bream? I can't ever remember getting those on Hamilton. Always little bigger than hand size. If you want monster bream go to Ouachita. It is famous for large bream. Many guides that is all they do all summer long is take people out for that. They come from all over. I was shocked when I first heard about it. Never thought bluegill to be all that special. Hire a guide though for one trip. Ouachita is weed beds. You'll need someone to take you around and show you where the good ones are at, at which drop off to hold fish etc. Otherwise you'll have a slow time figuring it out on your own. It's a big lake.

Hamilton, my advice is keep searching for deep brush. Those markers you see in the bays, don't they say fish habitat on them? When I was in high school game and fish sank lots of brush and marked it with those. Nice brush piles but everyone knew about them.

Its summertime. What I did during these months is early morning brush piles for bass. Evening brush piles for bass. When it git dark, 10:30 pm, go try boat docks with lights pointing at the water. There are 1000's. They stay on all night. Throw anything that looks like a shad on the outer edge of the light. White bass heaven.

Actually it's about time for the whites to start breaking. Find rabbit island, sit on the backside, not the side facing the dam. Also hit little mizzarn(sp). Sorry cant spell that word. Early morning late evening.


Is fish hatchery still around? They used to release stocker rainbows which made the striper school and break. I never caught a 40 pounder but caught a lot of 20s. That was always fun. Throw those big rainbow rogues.



Till you get 30+ brush piles in 25 foot of water don't get too discouraged on summertime crappie. It's hard. Boat docks in deep water is your best bet to luck into them.

Well I've always heard bream spawn more than once in the summer and I seem to remember seeing them up more than once so hoping they will do it again this next full moon cause I don't have much faith in catching any crappie around here, have to wait til I can make the trip back further SW part of the state. I always thought waters back home were tough until I got here!! Even the Pro bass guys over here have said it's been tougher than usual this year and they can't find the bigger bass?? Ought to tell a guy something, least it does me. I have found a few places to catch bass on Degray but they were and have been all small ones, just like everyone else has been catching.

I think with the way weather was this year, May temperatures in March, everything is deep deep DEEP. You're not the only one having trouble. I pretty much gave up trying to find crappie on tenkiller and Blue Mountain. I gave night fishing a try up on Tenkiller last Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday night I caught more fish on tenkiller than I think I have my entire time up there. Windy as it was, it even rained on me at 6:00 PM when I launched, but the small mouth were fantastic. Caught a few whites and 3 drum as well. I tried again this morning, not a single small mouth. Caught a few black bass and again drum. Far as crappie go, I am just going to quite chasing them for now until maybe November....with the way the weather is holding up. Unless I can get Crappie Greg and his buddy to take me out on Blue Mountain sometime. That guy seems to always come home with a cooler full.

Blue mountain has always held good numbers of crappie but even this time of the year they may be tough up there. Now if your into smaller reservoirs you might give that cedar piney up there a try. The bream get big up there and it has a few crappie also. Course the cottonmouths get big too so watch for those. Last time I was up there we brought home a nice stringer of beam.

Does Wappanocca have descent bass?