Bream Beds???

First off let me say I'm new here and would like to say hello. Hopefully my attachments work and can be seen.

I know it's a little early to be thinking about bream beds, but I think I may have found a new fishing hole. These images where taken at an extreme low tide. The first picture appears to be a large area with bream beds with lots of others along the banks near by.

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The second pic, I'm not sure about. Do yall think these are large bream (or other fish) beds? There appears to be perfect circles cleared out in some vegatation near the bank. Do bream make beds this big? Incase the dimensions are hard to read, the largest is about 35' in diameter and the others are 15' to 20'.
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First thing, welcome to the site! In my experience, any bream/bluegill beds that I've seen are around 2' in diameter, not the 5 & 7' you have dimensioned in the first picture. If I had to wager, I'd lean toward clumps of vegetation in the top pic. Bottom pic I have no idea.

Ancient alien signs of some sort? :yikes If this is a river, perhaps its the result of some sort of eddy over the years in those areas?

The first one is in some bayous/oxbows off the river. Next time I'm out there I will chech it out.

The second one is a small (450'x150') pond off the river that is fed by really small ditch. Not even sure if I can get in there. Will have to wait till after winter when tides get higher to find out.

In the first pic, what makes you think them beds are 7ft. wide? They do look kinda like em , but usually they are closer together,almost buttin up to one another. about a ft. in dia.

In the first photo, the red markings indicate one of the dark areas as 7 foot. In the second photo, one of the dark areas is indicated as being about about 35 feet in diameter. If that's a 35 foot wide bluegill bed, you'd need some pretty stout gear. Maybe a harpoon or something. A bluegill that made a 35 foot wide bed would be a heck of a filet. Like "6poundtest" said, bluegill beds are usually about a couple of feet in diameter at most.

Ill have to take some pics. On a local lake here. There is a bream bed that is huge. They use it every year and expand a little with it each year. They don't look like that tho. They look like an outside of a golfball.


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Second pic could be a carp bed. I've seen them make beds like bg's just off a sea wall on a lake house we rent. They can be 4-5' wide.

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Originally Posted by South65

Ill have to take some pics. On a local lake here. There is a bream bed that is huge. They use it every year and expand a little with it each year. They don't look like that tho. They look like an outside of a golf ball

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Exactly , but its not just one bed,it might be 100 or so, but the individual bed is about a foot in dia. Like Flycasters pic

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Originally Posted by wilbur

Exactly , but its not just one bed,it might be 100 or so, but the individual bed is about a foot in dia. Like Flycasters pic

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Originally Posted by wilbur

In the first pic, what makes you think them beds are 7ft. wide? They do look kinda like em , but usually they are closer together,almost buttin up to one another. about a ft. in dia.

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The aerials I have access to are to scale and I used a CAD program to view/dimension them. They are also a lot better quality in the original format.



Thanks for all the replies. This image was taken several months after the beds would have been made. This part of the river isn't very sandy, mostly mud. Maybe they washed away some. They definitely look like depressions if you look at the ones at the edge of the water. As far as the possibilty of carp making the big ones, that could be it. We don't have a lot of carp here yet, but there are some. My brother found a dead one that was about 4 feet long (made good catfish bait). I should also mention that other imagery from 2 years prior looks very similar.

My take on the second pic was that maybe it was a soft spot or sinkhole that the fish liked and started using. Never seen one that big. Top pic looks like hundreds I've seen over the years, borders almost touching but not quite. Just an opinion.

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Cool pic neon. Man that is some clear water.

nice picture! I've thought about getting a kayak for some of the small lakes where I fish in NE Indiana. There are lakes that I can't put my bout into that I know would be good lakes.