Bream Fishing Tips

 

Lure Fishing For Bream

By Bob Ives

Have you ever decided on a whim that you just wanted to up and go fishing? Most of us who loving fishing do that. But when it comes to Australian bream fishing, you might decide to put it off because you don't have any live or cut bait, nor the gear with you to get it.

There's solution for the angler that'll allow you to go anytime you want: In the trunk of your car keep a good light bream fishing rod and some good lures for bream fishing. Now, you will be able to pull over anytime you see a good fishing spot.

Lures for bream fishing come in hard baits and soft plastics. Both have there advantages. Some are divers and some are sinkers. With soft plastic bream lures you can control where they are fished; top, middle or bottom. So if you want to keep it simple, it might be a good idea to carry along a package of soft plastics wherever you go.

Diving Lures

A popular bream fishing lure is the diving lure. Anglers normally keep a variety in several colors with sizes in the 38mm to 40mm range. The smaller the lure the more likely it is to attract bream. In darker waters, use brighter colors like fluorescent pink or fluorescent green. No, this doesn't make you a sissy. Besides, the idea is to keep the lure in the water, not hanging off your hat to show off to your friends. Australian bream can be finicky, so experiment with different colors, sizes and diving depths. Fish your lure as life-like and naturally as possible.

If you are fishing around snags, use a hard bodied lure that you can quietly plop into the sweet spot and get the bream's attention. Just let it sit there while the ripples it caused move away from it. This can trigger the bite of a very big bream. Once the ripples the bream lure made have subsided, give the bait a slight twitch to make them start again. If this doesn't work, start a slow retrieve then stop, letting the lure float back to the surface. If that fails, try faster and deeper retrieves. If you fail once again, take up bird watching for the day.

Soft Plastics

When lure fishing for bream, you definitely do not want to leave out soft plastics. Soft plastics are designed to imitate the natural action of prey and have a lot of variety as to how they can be used. One of the most commonly used is a lightly weighted plastic shad. Among the many uses, these are great for fishing around oyster encrusted snags and other similar cover because they can be pitched or flipped right next to wear the bream are in hopes of getting their attention. This situation would require heavy line to quickly get the bream out of the cover before your line is cut by the snags.

Shad in the 2 to 3 inch range are typically used and seem to work best in daylight hours and should be fished on light soft action rods with light jig heads. Popular and effective colors include pumpkin seed, motor oil and Christmas tree. The best ways to fish these lures for bream is to vary the depth, jerk and let them fall back, and short lift and fall to initiate bites.

Okay, no more excuses. No need to plan a trip. Just put a light rod and reel in the trunk of your car along with a bag full of plastics, weights and hooks and no more looking for live bait or making cut bait. It's the perfect way to spend a lunch hour or an unplanned Saturday getaway.
 

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Ross
Posted 625 days ago
Thanks for the great advice as its ahrd to get up to speed with all this new technology like soft plastics...cheers and thanks
ole davey
Posted 675 days ago
Great general info for an old rank beginner like me thanks guys
 
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