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Thinking about going sometime soon. With water temps as hot as they are where do I start? Will bream hold fairly shallow even with high water temps? How shallow would you look?
Oh well...I can always take my rope lures and catch a bunch of garfish. Theyre fun to catch too. :)
hey G B M have you or anybody else as far as that goes ==ever heard of eating them garfish?
a friend of mine told me his friend " that's enough to be a lie already" :dono caught some and
ground um up and made fish patties out of um == said they was as good as salmon patties
just wondering if anybody ever heard of eating them things
as far as brim :dono
Butch, I caught several on Rooster Tails couple of weeks ago on Murray around deep water docks. I have been trying to catch Shellcrackers since 3 of us hired a guide to show us how to fish for them. We did OK but the hotter it gets the less we find. I don't know if they spawn every month like Bream but we are going Monday to look for some. If no luck, we will throw Rooster Tails around docks and them pull some crankbaits down the creek channel on way out. By 10 or 11 it is too hot to stay out.
I always fished for Bream and Shellcrackers at Santee so this is new to me, but we have been doing OK.
Ray how's the striper fishing on Murray right now? Thinking about going in the morning but not sure about the weather at 5am, starting to rain again with plenty of lightning. The humidity is going to be high I know. lol
The stripes are biting very well from the recent reports I've heard Eatmorecrappie
Gabowmen, we used to bream fish all summer long when I was a young fella. We used to fish with fiberglass cane poles and drop crickets under corks around the bank. The heat of the summer still brought good fishing, but we always targets shady cover in the form of logs, grass, and docks. Last year my Dad started shellcracker fishing and he goes about 3-4 days a week now. He fishes points and flats in 3-8 FOW right now with red worms and does pretty good with shellcracker, perch, and bream. The secret to the shellcracker bite for him is time of day. Once he figures out their feeding schedule he's in business. We went today for our annual birthday/Father's Day trip and managed a good mess with some nice crackers. Those things sure put up a good fight. The bream seem to be mixed in too. We had to weed through a lot of smaller bream and perch but some nice ones are in the mix if you wait them out and bring enough worms :)Attachment 207544
If I was going for Stripers I would tie up at the towers about 7PM and fish live herring down various depths trying to find the right level for them. Bout the only way to stand the heat right now. I am going Monday around 5:30 am to try Shellcrackers and/or Bream.
Derrick is he fishing up the river or is he down in the lake? We have been fishing points in Bear Creek.
He's up the rivers Ray. I sent you a PM.
Thanks for the info CB and congratulations to you and your father on a good mess of fish.
Ray I've never fished for them in the afternoon always in the morning but tomorrow I may try something different. Thanks Ray and good luck to you on Monday.
Butch, what we did with the guide, and it seems to be the best method, is anchor off a point in about 10 FOW and fan cast rods around the boat fishing on the bottom with red worms. You are in different depths from maybe 3 feet to 10 feet depending on where you cast relative to the point and the drop off. His rule was 20 minutes and them move. If you can feel rocks and shells on the bottom when you drop the anchor you are in the right area. Avoid soft mud bottoms as the shellcrackers feed on freshwater clams so that is where you want to set up. You will get a mix of bream and shellcrackers doing this. I don't know about the Hill, but we always get a dozen or more 2 to 5 lb.channels cats too, the lake is loaded with them. If they keep hitting I am going to start keeping them and filleting them, they are good to eat too.
Plan to go this week after the crackers & bream. I will be fishing shaded cover and shallow flats until I find a pattern. I'll be fly fishing with some subsurface flies and some weighted flies to be able to get to the bottom. Will let you know what I find, good luck.
This thread brings back memories. When I was a kid, we had a small Jon boat and an aluminum canoe. Early mornings we would put one or the other in at one of several local ponds or private lakes. We used the telescoping bream buster fiberglass poles as our "fly rods". We'd tie on 10-15 ft of floating fly line, and then add several feet of thin mono as a tippet. We'd use two flies, a dry bass buster fly of some type, and then follow behind it about 10-12 inches with a black gnat sinking/wet fly. Toss under the edges of the willow and button bushes and it was on! Many, many times we would catch 2 at a time: small bass, perch, blue gill, even the occasional small kitty cat. Nothing big, but to a young feller at the time, it was big time fishing. More often than not, my dad or grandad didn't even fish, they just kept the boat moving along so us guys up front could fish. Miss those days....
Well, I do have a place in mind for trying for those black gills. I just wasnt sure if it was too late in the year for them now. The water depth should be 3'-8' deep since the lake is over-full and the last time I was there (maybe 7-8 years ago) it was full of brush with openings all throughout the brush. Back then I can remember catching limits of gills pretty quickly using redworms under a cork pitching into the openings. All the keepers I had was about hand sized though.
Remus...years ago at a firehouse meeting and all nite hog cooking for plates to be sold the next day a fish fry was planned for all in attendance (a good meal and alot of drinking for most of the men there...HA!) I was told the h'orderves we polished off before the fish fry was fried gar. All I can tell ya that if that was what I ate then it was good (course so was the beaverages by then.). The cook always like cooking h'orderves before a meal and everybody always got to sample them. (He was a good cook.) That being said...I never have cleaned any gar nor do I intend to as long as I can catch other fish.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by uncle remus
Have heard that gar fish roe (eggs) are poisonous for us mere humans....not that I would ever eat them anyway.
Fisho, I used to enter the SCBA carp tourney every year at Santee. One particular year two older gents in overalls (which appeared to be locals) were down at the weigh in ripping the bellies of the larger gar after they were weighed and discarded and getting the eggs out. One of them told me that was the best bream bait you would ever get. I never tried it but I have learned alot over my lifetime listening to the older guys so I dont doubt it. I've always heard that gar eggs were poisonous to us too.