Bream fishing troubles

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id rip

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There's your problem

That's why I fish with worms

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That's why I fish with worms

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This! Frick crickets! Between turtles and tiny fish, you'll waste 90% of them. But look at it this way. You fed them little turds and soon they'll be much bigger. Now go getcha some worms...and if/when you can, some catalpas!

I'd be willing to get it was small ones giving you fits.

meal worms work good too. not as messy as nightcrawlers and stay on longer than crickets. plus the sac au lait love em too

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catalpa tree

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I have one but no worms for the last 3 years

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Thanks guys Looks like ill be getting some worms.

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I fish bream a lot and prefer crickets over worms all day. I will only use worms if I'm going on a last minute trip to a friend's pond across from my house to catch some for set lines. Even then it's cause I can dig plenty in a short time and not have to run to the store last minute.

Your problem was tiny bream and they'll do that with worms as well.

This is gonna sound crazy but it works. Do you have any dandy lions around this pond? If so, take the seed bulb and blow all the seeds off the head and then pluck the small head from the stem and put that on your hook. It actually looks like a dead bug. I have caught a bunch of bream and catfish over two pounds out of our pond using Dandy Lions.

I like that will try it out.

Also bacon works great. When they hit it, it slides up the hook shank. Slide back down and catch another.

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Doesn't it help if you seed the tree from time to time with fresh worms?

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I'm no biologist or any kind of worm specialist but this would make sense. With all of the spraying to control caterpillars just like these on other plants, I'm sure the side effects are a reduction in the number of these also. Plus, if you happen to be the only tree around, nature could probably use some help.

On a related note, my great grandmother had a tree on her property. It was right at the edge and overhung the neighbor's property. The neighbor was a "junkie" and had a trailer hauled onto his lot which did not go over well with my great grandmother to begin with. (This was back in the late 70's/early 80's so the term "junkie" was proper then) Anyway, one morning she said she heard a chainsaw running for a while before she actually got curious enough to go check out what was going on. He had cut the tree down bacause he said it was infested with bugs. My grandfather said she literally wanted to shoot him. She was almost a spitting image of Granny on Beverly Hillbillies and had the same kind of attitude.