WHY CAN'T I CATCH BREAM?!?!?!?!?!?!

[devinjm]

somebody help me!!!! i wanna catch some freakin bluegill and have me a fish fry. i try everything. i throw bobber and cricket back in coves and quite water. i throw beetle spins and rooster tails around weed beds and docks. i verticle jig along peirs. nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've caught one dang shellcracker about 12 inches long, which is awesome. but still..... i need help!!!!!!!

[Stasher1]

I've been wearing them out lately with a yellow Bett's "Trim Gim" on a 5wt fly rod.  

[.dsaavedra.]

i'm surprised you haven't got anything on the live bait or the inline spinners.... that is usually what i catch a ton of them on.

try a wooly bugger on a fly rod.

[ichigo]

i use weightless size 8 or 10 hook with half piece of nightcrawler

i always get them no matter what the condtions are

[devinjm]

i've always wanted to get around to learning the art of fly fishing. lol i guess now is as good a time as any. thanks for the advice guys.

is that peice of nightcrawler with or without a bobber?

[Big Bait Fishing]

use little pieces of shrimp on a size 12 treble 2' below a 1" bobber .......

[devinjm]

like a small peice on each of the trebles?

[Red Bear]

they should be tearing the crickets up, perhaps you just need to try a different place. then again i was at smith mountain lake this weekend and decided to catch a small bluegill under the light on the dock using night crawlers so i could throw it out on a bigger hook and hope for a big catfish or bass to take it, and them little bluegill wouldnt bite or even look at my nightcrawler, yet earlier they were chasin around a 5in senko. and normally they would be all over that nightcrawler.

[Stasher1]

I was given a bit of advice from an old man about bream fishing. He said, take a #8 or #10 aberdeen and hook a live cricket downward thru the breast plate, starting just below the "chin". It ought to float on the top of the water with the hook shank acting as a keel.

According to him, if they won't take that, you should go find something else to do for the day. 

[D4u2s0t]

if you're not catching them on live bait, it's because they're not there.  My lake has lots of them, and between me and my fiance we got 23 in about a half hour yesterday... the bigger ones will not be under the dock, but still, if they're there, they will eat the live bait,  regardless of the conditions.

[devinjm]

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

[chubaka]

piece of worm and a small hook. No bobber needed

[Big Bait Fishing]

like a small peice on each of the trebles?

you want the piece of shrimp just big enough to cover two trebles , the fish will get hooked on the exposed treble .....

[Big Bait Fishing]

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

[Matt Fly]

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

Some of the biggest bluegills and crappie  are in those Santee RCP pits/San Diego river bed.   Fished them from 1980-94, half those years you could drive to them, the other half we carried our float tubes in.  Very deep!

    Since minnows back then were 5.99 dz for crappie minnows, I elected to fish with 5 cent feeder goldfish.

   Some good bass, 6 crappie over 3 lbs came from those pits.   Just an ole navy guy who lived in Lakeside/El Cajon.

[timothy_spain]

Use someone like this on 4# line  ... won't fail u

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