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Just giving everybody a heads up because Ive seen several people talking about bream the past few weeks..caught 54 good sized red ear bream this afternoon on a private lake in Central Ark..water temp was 66-68 and several beds on different parts of the lake in 2-4 feet of water..caught 6-10 on each bed tight lining crickets and it was a blast!
None of them had eggs so I assume its the first males of the year making beds..maybe someone could answer that Im not sure when it comes to bream
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Nice pile of fish.... :ThumbsUp Was hopping to get after them this saturday but it's gonna be cold cold cold.....
Congrats. Good haul!
Same here 20watt but I looked at the forecast and decided to get after em this afternoon and Im glad we did..Ill catch up on work this weekend with this crazy weather on the way
Good pile o feesh.
I was on peckerwood Wednesday and the bream were showing out. My friend and I caught 83 real nice ones and then started a great game of catch and release. Crickets were the bait of the day. I will caution you now, when tight lining get ready for a real fight. Good Luck.
Those were some brutes!!! I bet they were pullers. I'd like to get after some this year myself. I fished Hamelton high and low last year looking for them and everything else but came up empty while my buddy managed to find a few on Gillham lake. Most of what we catch are just the bull bream though not the bigger redears like you have here. I noticed the meat is even a different color, the copper, red bellied bream have a darker meat, still good, but not like the redears white meat like a crappie will have.
I love catching crappie on a jigpole and I catch my share of bass on spinning reels and love the way they both fight..but Ive got to have atleast 2 or 3 good bream trips a year at some point.Big redear on light line and a ultra light pole is definetly a blast.I will try to let you know on Hamilton beds.I dont fish it for bream only bass on occassion and actually Ill be after the crappie most of the next month or two but my buddy fishes Hamilton alot for big bluegill and he catches some giants over there and a few big redear when their spawning.Bream is a close second to crappie as far as eating in my book so all the more reason to get after em when there shallow!I will tell you this that Lake Degray has some big redear we usually catch some over around state park marina area and they love bedding in the buck brush in the coves in that area!
Fished Degray for the breams last year too and spoke to several guys out there who like myself struggled???
I can for sure put you on some at Degray when it gets good..Ive fished that lake for years and know that lake well plus alot of my buddies bream fish it every year while Im chasing crappie..just send me a message when you plan on heading down there and Ill get you some info of what the bream are doing.I figure the next full moon will kick it off good on the bigger lakes but with this weather who know!?
Yep, that's what I'm talkin bout. Has anyone in the Marion,West Memphis area heard where they are bitin, I've been to Wapanocca, NOTHIN happining there, I mean NOTHIN I 4-5 outings not a nibble. Horseshoe gave up 5-10 crappie, one 17", 2.8lbs and a mess of catfish. Has anyone been to Burntcane or Midway lately?
I caught two bull shouldered redears Wednesday on minnows while crappie fishing, that if they had weighed 3 lbs, you'd have had to have been using E Piano Wire to land 'em!
River was at 27 last i checked and more rains and crazy weather up north should have midway out of commision for a short timeQuote:
Originally Posted by offdahook
I hear you buckrub they remind me of smallmouth bass when they hit it you better hang on!Offdahook I fish Horsehoe alot actually going to be over there several weekends in May and June and I hear they catch alot of bream out of there.I know I always see as many bream fisherman as crappie and there usually against the bank in the woods opposite side of the piers catching them when they start bedding usually mid may through June from what Ive seen the past few years.
"WOW" some nice ones!!! Good eating right their!!!
I've always said that if a bream got over 5 pounds he would take your rod away and beat you to death with it! I love catching those feisty little buggers!!!!!!
I like a good bream catching trip. TTT in salute of the "kids" fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by CASTINnBLASTIN