What lure will this bream take??

Quite often you pull up to a fishy looking spot where you think bream would have to be feeding around, but some days some lures will get smashed and other days the wiley bream will just sit there and watch it swim past. In this blog Im going to try and help you to make lure choice alot easier to tempt that bream.

These days there is loads of lures of all sizes and style to chase bream. The lures you should be using should be really no more than 70mm to get a consistent bite, but big bream have been to take 100mm lures that had been used to lure mulloway. My preferred size of lure is 40mm to 50mm. And there is alot of bream lures available in this size so you are able to have a good variety of this lures in different colours.

As for colours, I think a bream will take a lure which ever color it is as long as it looks edible to them and they are hungry or will even attack it out of anger. I usually try and stick with natural colours and try to "match the hatch" when fishing in different areas, as different sections of river can have different colurations and clarity.

There is alot of different styles of lures that can be used to target bream. There is soft plastics, hard body minnows, metal blades, hard bodied vibes, bibless minnows etc etc. These all have there different purposes for different sections and depths of water. Basically to put them in sub groups you have floating, sinking and suspending catergories.

Most will use floating lures for fishing over snaggy areas, shallow drop-offs, flats and rock walls, and is a deadly tool in the tackle box.

Sinking lures like blades and vibes are handy to fish deep sections of water, deep holes and even vertical structures like flat walls. They also have the bonuses of catching other fish that like deep holes and dont mind to chew on a bit of metal or plastic

Suspending lures are a deadly lure on bream, and can be used with quite finesse to lure that sneaky bream. As they suspend in the water column you can sit a lure in the water while you wait for the strike and also helps towards getting a real lifelike action out of the lure.

As for plastics they are able to be fished down deep and on top resembling a bait fish or shrimp fleeing on top of the water and have so many ways you can present the lure to get that bite.

All different lures also have alot of different actions you can impart on the lure to get that hit from the bream and it reallys comes down to how you work each different lure differently until you find out what works. It is good to impart twitches of the rod tip to impart darting actions into the lure to reproduce the look of the available bait fish. Also pausing some lures can really impart that reaction bite. But like I say there is alot of different ways you just have to find out what works for you.

Well with this basic description of the lures and how or where they work best, I hope it gives you a bit more of knowledge on targetting this species the black bream. If you have any questions on different lures etc etc post a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks

Leethal

More "schoolies" caught in the hunt for the legal mulloway

The hunt for that legal mulloway on lure has continued with yet another trip to the local river, the port river.

We got to our first mulloway spot after trying to nail some wiley bream, which were pretty much no where to be seen, at about 11am with near perfect conditions. It wasnt long until I had a hit but the fish dropped the lure straight away. So I let the lure sink and sit, I then saw the tell tale sign and my braided line slowly started tensioning. Stirke and I was on to the first "schoolie" for the day. (right)

The lure of choice for me was again the 4" Berkley Gulp minnow on a nitro 1/8 size jighead, and this was literally swolloed by this little mully, luckily for him he swam off fine.

Within probally about 10 casts after that mulloway was landed I was onto the next one, as soon as he was hooked he was not wanting to come up to meet the net, he tried to slug it down deep as long as possible. This one being still not legal but bigger than the last and very healthy. Not long after my fellow fishing companion was onto his first for the innings also no where near legal size. After this the bite seemed to shut down and we went in search of new territory to find the ever eluding legal mulloway, only to have bream hit our big plastics. So the chase is still on to find that big silver ghost.

Enjoy the pics

Leethal