Thread: #1 Bream Bait??

Cook or raw shrimp?

Raw salted and dried slightly.

Originally Posted by no luck

Cook or raw shrimp?

Originally Posted by fe1

Whats everyones #1 bream bait live or artificial?

I know they love mealworms, waxworms, red wigglers and crickets. However..........................my favorite one is the one they are biting on the morning I am out there fishing. It is usually a wax worm or a red wiggler fished beneath a small teardrop jig. I raise my own red wigglers and refrigerate my waxworms so I always have something to start fishing with whenever I want to head to the lake. In summary my vote would be live.

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

I have to disagree with you on that. Maggots are better than dynamite. They're "electro-fishing for the poor man".

I've fished for sunfish all my life (50+ years). Artificial and various live baits. But being a Texan I had never tried maggots. After reading deathb4disco's affirmations
about this bait I ordered a few thousand to give them a good try over a few week period. My fishing buddy and I decided to be discrete about (maggots)
to any of the locals because it was exactly as deathb4disco said. Sorry, but nuclear weapons for bluegill can only take so much proliferation.

Read my lips. MAGGOTS ARE DEADLY ON SUNFISH. We are on our second year of using them and it's nothing but good. A clean, easy to use bait of high effectiveness
year around. Bluegill, redbreast, and cracker. #6 Owner Mosquito hook on a drop shot bottom rig or quill slip float rig. You want a needle sharp hook because the maggots are surprisingly
tough skinned and a not so sharp hook will tear them rather than pierce them. They stay on the hook very well often getting multiple fish before re-baiting with the usual
3 or 4 maggot load.

Originally Posted by doctorxring

I've fished for sunfish all my life (50+ years). Artificial and various live baits. But being a Texan I had never tried maggots. After reading deathb4disco's affirmations
about this bait I ordered a few thousand to give them a good try over a few week period. My fishing buddy and I decided to be discrete about (maggots)
to any of the locals because it was exactly as deathb4disco said. Sorry, but nuclear weapons for bluegill can only take so much proliferation.

Read my lips. MAGGOTS ARE DEADLY ON SUNFISH. We are on our second year of using them and it's nothing but good. A clean, easy to use bait of high effectiveness
year around. Bluegill, redbreast, and cracker. #6 Owner Mosquito hook on a drop shot bottom rig or quill slip float rig. You want a needle sharp hook because the maggots are surprisingly
tough skinned and a not so sharp hook will tear them rather than pierce them. The stay on the hook well often getting multiple fish before re-baiting with the usual
3 or 4 maggot load.

Glad they've worked out well for you!

As I've said before, one of the great mysteries of my fishing life is why I can't walk into a bait shop and buy maggots. It's the #1 live bait all over Europe. You can walk into any English tackle shop and walk out with a gallon of maggots. (And I don't mean a gallon of sawdust with a couple hundred maggots mixed in. I mean a gallon of maggots.)

Incidentally, the first time I ever heard of maggots as bait was about twenty years ago in the old "Southern Outdoors" magazine. This guy was using them for trout, and was just slayin' 'em.

Let me tell you straight out bud, you are up at the top of the list of my "sunfish heroes". Right up there with the guys who
got me started in this 5 decades ago, my Dad and my grandfather. That's how much of an impact finding out about
this bait has made in my gill fishing. Have one on me !



I probably would not have given it much thought if you had not been so determined about your message on this.

Originally Posted by doctorxring

Let me tell you straight out bud, you are up at the top of the list of my "sunfish heroes". Right up there with the guys who
got me started in this 5 decades ago, my Dad and my grandfather. That's how much of an impact finding out about
this bait has made in my gill fishing. Have one on me !



I probably would not have given it much thought if you had not been so determined about your message on this.

What can I say? I'm a maggot evangelist!

Right back at you!

Crickets I have slaughtered the bream using nothing but crickets. If you fish them at the right depth you can limit out quick.