Cape Fear River @ Avent Ferry?

[ppowell]

Has anyone tried for bream and/or crappie on the Cape Fear, putting in behind the buckhorn dam at Avent Ferry boat ramp (close to Shearon Harris)? I've had good luck bass fishing, but when I tried bream it was poor fishing. However I wasn't fishing during the spawn...

Looking to get into a mess of bream. I usually hit Harris but just love the river, so fishy looking, different type of fishing than the lakes. Not sure if it is worth my time however.

[friedfish]

I used to fish the Cape Fear for bream down in Riegelwood. Of course the creeks are best, but if you can find a sloping sand beach on the eddy side of a bend the bream like to bed in that sand. Also around cypress trees on shallow banks in slow current or eddies.

[JordanLimit]

Know this area very well and have fished there many times over the years. My Father and brother are going there tomorrow. My uncle used to water ski the river way back before Jordan was built. Got some good memories many years ago setting trot lines for catfish and once even some gill nets--only caught suckers and carp.

Fishing for crappie and bream can be hit or miss this time of year. If you have side-imaging, it could help you, especially finding bream beds. I never could figure out why crappie would be in one blow-down and go down-river to the next one and nothing. It's definitely different from lake fishing. Unless the cold got them, there is a good population of threadfin shad, so there should be some crappie out in the middle chasing them, but I have never tried it. It's a fun place to fish, but can be a challenge. If you can find some of the flats near the bank, they should hold bream.

[Big Crappie 2]

use to fish the lee county side behind the dam. just as the water comes off the lip of the dam, you can fill a cooler cause it seems the bream are up under the lip and will hit worms or anything that comes down in front of em.seen a guy fill a wire basket in 30 minutes using crickets and bream buster pole

[SEA DANCER]

Bream and flathead cats = fat flatheads and a lot less bream.

[JordanLimit]

Pop just called and they did pretty good down at the Ferry today. He dug some worms to try the bream, but only caught little ones. Many years ago (back in the '40's), one of Pop's neighbors would take him fly rodding for bream at the Ferry. They would go on full moons when the bream were bedding and he would take Pop from one bedding area to another up and down the river. I would suggest hitting the river in a couple of weeks or so when it is full moon and give the bream a try. If there are little ones, there are big ones somewhere.