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Bream fishing troubles
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:32 pm
Acre and a half pond. Loaded with the bream. I go this past weekend load up on crickets. I used the same bream hook i've used for thirty years. H&H brand. Put a small clamp on weight about an inch above the hook. Cork was set between a foot to two feet depending on the part of the pond I was fishing. They were tearing the crickets up but out of say a hundred crickets, I maybe landed 10 bream 2 bass 1 nasty cat. They would drown the cork id rip the ultra light come up empty majority of the time. Am I doing something wrong?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:39 pm to ThaTigerDon
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id rip
There's your problem
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:39 pm to ThaTigerDon
bream too small or hook too big would be my guess
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:41 pm to ThaTigerDon
That's why I fish with worms
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:45 pm to ThaTigerDon
When the cork hits the water, does it go under immedialely, or it was a few minutes later? Usually when big bream are on their beds, the cork hits the water it immediatley goes under. Might be small ones.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:56 pm to PillageUrVillage
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That's why I fish with worms
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!
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:03 pm to Boudreaux35
Thanks guys Looks like ill be getting some worms. I know the hook isnt too big. where can I find them catalpas at?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:04 pm to ThaTigerDon
I'd be willing to get it was small ones giving you fits.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:16 pm to ThaTigerDon
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where can I find them catalpas at?
Probably not in them yet, but in a catalpa tree. And if you are a real big bream fisherman, it will be located on your best friend's property (at least during fishing season).
Seriously, a real good bait shop will sell them when they can be had. I doubt they've shown up yet due to the late cold weather. By July they should be around...They won't be cheap, but well worth the money.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:20 pm to ThaTigerDon
meal worms work good too. not as messy as nightcrawlers and stay on longer than crickets. plus the sac au lait love em too
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:48 pm to Boudreaux35
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catalpa tree
I have one but no worms for the last 3 years
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:01 pm to Stexas
Doesn't it help if you seed the tree from time to time with fresh worms? We had one as a kid and it seemed that every few years, we would put a few on it.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:13 pm to ThaTigerDon
quote: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.
Thanks guys Looks like ill be getting some worms.
Your problem was tiny bream and they'll do that with worms as well.
This post was edited on 6/2/14 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:23 pm to ThaTigerDon
Get a smaller hook Leroy.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:26 pm to ThaTigerDon
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.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:28 pm to Teyeger
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.
Also bacon works great. When they hit it, it slides up the hook shank. Slide back down and catch another.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:29 pm to Geauxtiga
I take a hotdog weenie, peel the skin off, roll the skin up, and free-line it on a #16 hook. Catches everything.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:32 pm to DownSouthDave
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Doesn't it help if you seed the tree from time to time with fresh worms?
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.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:37 pm to Geauxtiga
Im telling you man, if you are on one of those ponds full of bream and they keep eating off the crickets, or worms, or whatever you put on your hook. The dandy lion will stay on and they will try to eat it. Just hook it right through the center of the head.
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