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Fly fishing for big bream
Posted on 4/4/21 at 9:10 am
Posted on 4/4/21 at 9:10 am
My son got a fly rod for Christmas and broke it out in our pond yesterday and absolutely was destroying some monster Copper Nose and Bluegill. Guess I’ll be getting a fly rod now! Fun Stuff!
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Posted on 4/4/21 at 9:20 am to tigamike
lots of fun. i bought one a few years ago just for the bream ponds at my hunting club.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 9:47 am to tigamike
When I was a kid and school would let out for the summer, I would go with my great uncle to his camp on the Calcasieu River. We would go up river in his flat boat. He’d cut the motor and we’d drift with the current fly casting to the river bank. When we’d get to the downstream end of a sandbar, he’d ease into the eddy, stand up in the boat and shake the willow trees hanging over the water. Mayflies would fall onto the surface. Then we’d back up the boat and wait a few minutes. Bream and bass would start hitting the mayflies and we’d cast popping bugs into the frenzy. We caught a lot of big bream doing that. Lots of fun!
Posted on 4/4/21 at 9:49 am to tigamike
Bead head Prince nymph and a 4 weight fly rod. So much fun it should be illegal.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 10:21 am to No Colors
Grew up using a fly rod for panfish and actually tore the bass up. It’s a technique that is killer in certain areas, because there’s very little competition.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 10:23 am to tigamike
Black Gnat & pork rind swaying back & forth, as it slowly falls downward deeper into the depths before a big, hungry Bream ferociously tries to devour it...only to fall victim, as many before, to my old trusty fly rod.
Brings back many memories of times spent with my Dad down Blind River.
Brings back many memories of times spent with my Dad down Blind River.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 10:33 am to tigamike
I have only one bit of advice.
Use a small white popper less than 6 feet from any bank and you can pull them in on virtually every other cast.
It's a great way to learn to fish and a great way to capture trot line bait.
Use a small white popper less than 6 feet from any bank and you can pull them in on virtually every other cast.
It's a great way to learn to fish and a great way to capture trot line bait.
This post was edited on 4/4/21 at 10:34 am
Posted on 4/4/21 at 10:34 am to tigamike
I gave up my 8wt and 10wt and 12wt.
I had my fun with those over the years it was just time for someone else to enjoy them.
It was very fun especially the flex crab for redfish and let your drag do the work. That flex crab was great to watch the redfish eat the crab and just sit until you put pressure on them.
The older I get the more I love messing with my old Orvis battenkill with my 3wt glass rod for bream. I-55 canals around now until gets too hot, spillway, old river, and even roll cast the docks at False River or Toledo Bend.
I had my fun with those over the years it was just time for someone else to enjoy them.
It was very fun especially the flex crab for redfish and let your drag do the work. That flex crab was great to watch the redfish eat the crab and just sit until you put pressure on them.
The older I get the more I love messing with my old Orvis battenkill with my 3wt glass rod for bream. I-55 canals around now until gets too hot, spillway, old river, and even roll cast the docks at False River or Toledo Bend.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 11:35 am to johnnyrocket
Bream killer tied to a popper hanging about 1.5 feet in the water. Money
Close up of popper
Close up of fly
When we fly fish all day in the spillway we will catch 50 chinqs, googles, bream on the fly and 10 bass or so hitting the popper
Close up of popper
Close up of fly
When we fly fish all day in the spillway we will catch 50 chinqs, googles, bream on the fly and 10 bass or so hitting the popper
Posted on 4/4/21 at 11:43 am to lsupride87
^that is a great idea.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 12:50 pm to tigamike
My grandpa taught me to fly fish for panfish. It's such a fun way to fish.
Posted on 4/4/21 at 2:02 pm to jaytothen
Using a 2 or 3 weight on bream should be illegal as it’a more fun than one should be able to have.
Also, the biggest bass I’ve ever caught was a smallmouth during a mayfly hatch.
It was 6+
Also, wanted to add, unless I’m in a mayfly hatch. If I’m fishing a river, I’ve always had better success with sinking flies. A wooly worm and a small clouser with bead chain eyes work amazingly well.
Also, the biggest bass I’ve ever caught was a smallmouth during a mayfly hatch.
It was 6+
Also, wanted to add, unless I’m in a mayfly hatch. If I’m fishing a river, I’ve always had better success with sinking flies. A wooly worm and a small clouser with bead chain eyes work amazingly well.
This post was edited on 4/4/21 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 4/4/21 at 2:09 pm to dstone12
It works really well. Not uncommon to get a 2 for 1
Posted on 4/4/21 at 3:30 pm to Nado Jenkins83
Love it. Use a popper and a black ant as a trailer
Mom used to go to the country club and play tennis in the summer. The golf course director let me fish the ponds Best times. Would see those beds and watch them smoke that popper. Good times
Mom used to go to the country club and play tennis in the summer. The golf course director let me fish the ponds Best times. Would see those beds and watch them smoke that popper. Good times
Posted on 4/4/21 at 6:52 pm to tigamike
This thread has me wanting to get back into fly fishing. Did it as a kid for bream.
What's a good setup for bream these days?
What's a good setup for bream these days?
Posted on 4/4/21 at 6:52 pm to tigamike
This thread has me wanting to get back into fly fishing. Did it as a kid for bream.
What's a good rod/reel setup for bream these days?
What's a good rod/reel setup for bream these days?
Posted on 4/4/21 at 7:04 pm to jgthunt
We were just using a nymph fly. No indicator. They were taking it after it fell the first 3-4 inches
Posted on 4/5/21 at 6:15 am to jgthunt
I like my 3 wt bamboo rod. Found it at a garage sale in PA. It is perfect until a bass or catfish takes the fly. Then I'm worried ill break it 
Posted on 4/5/21 at 6:30 am to jaytothen
That’s who taught me as a kid. I’d work up and down the banks of Little River, mauling the bream and occasionally a bass.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:36 am to tigamike
put a bass bug on it and have even more fun.
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