Best Bream Patterns

[smoothlures]

Now I've caught my share of crappie on jigs but hardly and bream...if I wanted bream I'd grab a #8 hook a tiny cork and some worms and have at 'em... With that said I'm making a panfish box and want a dozen or so bream patterns.

What's your favorites? Pictures welcome. Have some mallard flank, kiptail, and some hackle I want to use, can do all marabou or bou and chenille too...

[CrappieKillerJigs]

i like to use a 1/80 with a #8 hook...we use alot of black and brown kiptail but ill find a pic of house fly(looks like the flys that fly around your house)....it has worked very well for me

[smoothlures]

And you guys catch bream on em without tipping it? How do ya work it?

[azslabber]

Now this is a subject that I am very interested in.I'll be watching fulltime for some pictures.

[skeetbum]

By far not an expert but I fool with the gills now and then. They are very curious and will hit things just to complete the identification process is my thought. I've tied some jigs and bugs to try but it's all still just theory. One of the jigs I've used was a small tube insert tied with squirrel tail and trimmed to just behind the hook, gray or brownish in color, and were called bream gitters. They don't hit em with abandon like a cricket but you can get some, and they're usually bigger than average. If and when mine produce you'll hear about it.

[queyit]

I do well on patterns that are spider or ant like. I'm new to tying flies, homemade jigs, etc....my best success has been with rigging them 3 ft behind a single split shot and cork with steady retrieve. Tend to catch bream on large size or small bass. I'll try to upload a few pics soon.

[LedHed]

These are some So Cal big Bluegill jigs patterns.

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[skiptomylu]

I catch gills with just a jig and if they slow down hitting it like that I take a tiny piece of some kind of Berkley's Power Bait like worms or Spikes and they will then keep hitting that. I don't even use a whole segment, just a tiny piece. I don't fish for them a lot, but a couple time each year I will get after them during their spawn.

I like most any size under 1/16 and a #8 hook. I keep from 1/80 to 1/32 with the size hooks I need. I have them in both sickle and regular bend except the 1/80 and just got them in regular bend.

I catch a good many each year long line trolling for crappie if I slow down a bit and they will hit a Roadrunner in 1/32 oz.

[Jiggin_Joe]

i only use jigs for gills now my favorite are micro kip tails on 1/80 oz under a bobber

these are what i use

and here is the catch


JJ

[queyit]

I'm working on a few more but these two are my proven ones. I caught a few bull bream, small bass and small crappie on the jig last spring. I've been experimenting with different colors and using marabou on the jig. The jig is 1/80th; going to go up to 1/32 to try to target bigger crappie. Black spider has only produced bream...but nice ones...