How do you guys go about finding them on a new lake?
Printable View
How do you guys go about finding them on a new lake?
One of the surest ways I know is to cast a red worm on light line(4#) with just a small BB and no float. Let it sink slowly and work it a ways slowly along the bottom. I have never know a bream or shell cracker to pass one up. This includes a lot of 4" ones, by the way.
Down here, they'll put the hurt on some crickets below a cork.
Short answer: get off the banks. Find drop-off's in deeper water.Quote:
Originally Posted by no luck
Also, Matt Straw has a good bream article in the latest In-Fisherman. I haven't had a chance to read it all, but I've skimmed it, and it looks good. I think it would help you.
find weeds and you'll find 'gills
Spend time on the water as much as possible. Try different things.
CAROLINA RIG A RED WIGGLER ON ALL POINTS THAT EXTEND TO DEEP WATER . The next step would be to find the more narrow coves and fish the center water 5-15 ft. deep . All points have a reason they are there and did not wash away . Bream like sandy ,hard bottoms . jmo .
Like Matzilla said... "find weeds and you'll find 'gills". I normally start on the deep side of a weed line first then work around the shallower edges. I love to tight line with small shot and crickets. On my lake they just love them crickets.
VERY GOOD INFO BY ALL! I plan on remembering it!
I use crickets 90% of the time for bream, however for locating them in an area I am not familiar with, I seem to have more luck dragging the red worm on the bottom not using a float. Crickets don't seem as effective using that technique, at least in my experience.
Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
Here's a quote from the article:
This my experience exactly. I find nice gills suspended over deeper water almost year round, and I have them all to myself.Quote:
In the large bay I visit every spring, anglers using slipbobbers fish in boats along the shorelines.... But those shoreline-oriented anglers are missing out. Every year I find prespawn crappies and 'gills so far out and away from shore that you need to mark spots with GPS.
I agree , those points that have 1ft. -20 ft.(somewhere on it) will be good all year . Below 20 ft. and temps over 90 degrees fish tend to be 10-15 ft. . jmo I don't fish much where there is over 25-30 ft. deep .Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco