I am interested in learning how to catch the big bream/ blue gills. The 1 -2lbers.
I am sure others are with me, I have never caught a blue gill worth trying to fillet.
Please post some secrets?:confused: :D
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I am interested in learning how to catch the big bream/ blue gills. The 1 -2lbers.
I am sure others are with me, I have never caught a blue gill worth trying to fillet.
Please post some secrets?:confused: :D
fish deep 18'-25'.
Deep in holes, brush, flats, etc?
I've caught em off chunk rock in 50 foot of water fishing a slip bobber set at 10 ft on crickets. Gotta get the bait down past the small ones.
The biggest fish are where you'd least expect them to be... hmmm... I've caught the best fish in a water hole no bigger than 10X10, it is an uprooted tree that has a eight inch inlet to it from the main body of water. I found it and others by accident. I had to use the bathroom and there weren't nothing, but mud flats, grass, and cypress trees. I had to pole the boat through shallow water to get to what I thought was a bank. It was actually a marsh flat with trees. I got up on a fallen tree and walked to the root, the water in the hole was black and deep. I saw a fish cut through the water and into a little eight inch channel under the tree to the main water. I found a spot took care of business and then grabbed my bream buster to check it out. I shortened the line, threw on a cricket, laid over the roots and every time it hit the water I'd snatch their lips off get'm out. I caught 30, my limit and left. I have since been there every year and done the same and also found some other places just like it. This is my honey hole and no one , I mean no one knows. Not even my grandad who only fishes with me. Every one I've caught is over a pound.
Hello Stumpbumpers, your post reminds me of a fishing hole I had here in Savannah. It was full of logs and stumps and I lost a lot of tackle but I always caught a mess of red breast and bream. I enjoyed the challenge of getting them out before getting hung up and breaking my line. I always had a good supply of hooks, sinkers and bobbers with me. Thanks Jimmy S.
I catch some nice ones in 50 ft of water on worms while I was catfishing. Always nice ones. have no ideal why they were there. or of there was a Nice tree in there but will find out next trip there.
Pete
These guys are all over it. The bigger fish will hold in deeper water. Drift fishing is a quick way to find them.
I've caught some huge non bedding bream (bluegills) in oxbows around tree stumps and at spillways where they are overlooked by catfisherman and crappie fisherman. Deep, close to bottom and with crickets or waxworms.
Deep water in an oxbow? Nothing beats catching a pisser out of the buckbrush in 15" of water, and that's if you can get him out.
First, make sure your lake has big gills, all lakes do not. Fish the deeper side of spawning areas, the biggest 'gills spawn deeper in most cases and try to fish the early spawn, bigger 'gills spawn early. After the spawn big 'gills move to deeper water areas adjacent to spawning areas. They can be metered near structure, humps, outside weed lines, creek channels ect. and fish with CRICKETS! DaveQuote:
Originally Posted by mighty
reference to reservoir spillway not oxbows. In the oxbow in my area (Vicksburg,MS) those knotheads are around almost every stump.
This is very tough, Most of the very large bluegills bury up deep in cover and I mean deep. Thats the answer! They come in earlier, to the best spots, stay for shorter periods of time then head back out to deeper cover and bury up most of the time. Every lake is different. You need to move and check and use your depth finder and be patient and constantly rethink and adjust and even then someone else will catch the bigger fish and it will probable be a 12 year old kid who is not paying attention to anything!
What is the best way to present a cricket deep? tightline with small splitshot or light line on a slip bobber rig with small splitshot? also what is the best way to hook a cricket?Quote:
Originally Posted by sunfish
I try to target the bigger 'gills, so most of my fishing here in California is in 15+ feet. For deep water structure I prefer a vertical drop-shot rig. For deep water drift fishing I use a california rig (light carolina rig) with tungston bullet weight. I don't like using split-shot on light line. I hook a cricket under the back carapace with a light wire hook like the Owner mosquito. Size 8-10. Dave.Quote:
Originally Posted by treepotato
Last Saturday my son and I went nightstalking for crappie. I took along
some wax worms. He caught several crappie on minnows, while I fished
for bluegill. I caught 15 gills big enough to filet. Never caught them before
after dark, using a submersable light, we are going again this week.
funny thing, this time of year the crappie always stop biting around ten oclock. They did it again last saturday, and so did the bluegill.
Regards
John Brower
Deep water Bream fishing is something I never have done. The deepest I've ever fished for them was 10 foot when bedding in deep water. I fish 99.9% of the time 5' or less. I've caught Big bream shallow all my life but I only fish one water for bream. I dont know what I'd do with a River bream and 30 feet of line beside ski!!!
My local lake, well one of the three has a riprapped spillway for about an 1/8 mile. I caught a pound and a half bluegill in three feet of water at the height of summer on a crawdad crankbait right in the middle of a featureless run. Just fish, it will happen for you!
I have only fished deep water for bream once in my life. I, like Tunica, usually fish in 6' or less and catch big bream all the time. Yes the smaller ones are there too. I went to an oxbow lake off of the Altamaha River this past Monday and of the 45 bream I caught better than half were over 1lb. I weighted the biggest and he was 2lbs.
I also caught a war mouth twice. I couldn't believe it either but I did. The first time I thought I was hung up and broke my line at the hook. I tied on another hook and when I went to take the hook out of the fishes mouth I found the hook I had just broke off too. I am still laughing about that one.