Search lure

Hi,
What lure/bait do you use to locate bream? I have always used a small beatle spin with a cataba colored body. What do you use?

I live in northwest Louisiana and the water here is generally somewhat off colored.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Crickets for me on D'Arbonne

I generally use a small black marabou jig. It works so well I rarely try anything else.

Also, take a look at the sticky threads at the top of the page. Two of them are on favorite bait/lure for gills. They have about 160 posts on members' top baits.

lure for bluegill/bream is a 1/80 homemade spider or ant jig with a small split shot 14 inches above it cast with slow retrieve. My favorite search bait is grass shrimp. Most people don't know it but down here even today (34 degrees) grass shrimp can be caught in water vegetation.

If I'm casting for them .... 1/32oz marabou Roadrunner, chartreuse !

If I'm not casting, I'm probably fishing with a slip float & live bait (piece of nightcrawler, wax worm, cricket, common stalk borer grub)

... cp

Most of the time when I'm bluegill fishing, I will use a black popeye jig with a wax worm. The gills love em'..!Hands ClappingThis is also a good bait for vertical fishing for crappie..Thumbs Up

I trolled with beetle spins til I caught a couple and then slowed down and went back. Didn't jig fish then like I do now.