Bream bait

[Sean]

I pasted this from one the thread 'imnotoriginal' was talking about.

BTW Thanks for the wrap mate, Have you tried it?

Sean

Hi mate, I have a few tips.

Firstly, Bread is an excellent bait for bream. You can fish it 2 ways.
No matter which way, keep any left over bread products in your freezer. When you want to go fishing this is burley only, it will not stay on your hook.

Go to the local bakery and buy the freshest bread...if they are offering a special on yesterdays bread DON'T BE CHEAP! Buy todays. The old stuff doesn't stay on the hook.

1. Anchor up in small creeks next to the bank facing back to a good looking snag. start throwing bits of the bread out so they drift back to the snag....not too many as this will take the fish back past the snag.
With the FRESH bread, rip off a side of crust, and with a really fine guage long shank hook thread it through the hook like you would a fillet....through the top...pull the whole hook through then sort of stitch so the hook shank sits parrallel along the crust. Cast this out unwieghted and the bream smash it off the surface. I'll try to dig out some photos I took of this rig once.

2. If you have an electric, try poppers for bream. Brand isn't too important but river2sea about 50mm long with the feathery stuff on the back hook is a good start...natural colours. Cast these to overhanging branches and twich twitch the lure back to the boat with some long pauses. At least this way you see the fish that follow and get plenty of hits. Cast at shade, High tide in the creeks, and low tide the rock walls....about 5-10 feet deep is pretty good. NO wind on the water surface, if its too rippled up they don't seem to hit. This is my No1 way of catching bream.

3. Any spot that you know holds bream and you can fish this one. Fine guage long shank hook. FRESH bread. Rip the crusts off. With the white bit of the bread rip this in roughly 2 even pieces...2 baits. Don't leave the bread in the sun it will be crap in no time. Lay the hook so you can sort of roll the piece of bread around the hook, sqeeze the crap out of the bread to make it like a cigar shape. It should be about the size of a cigarette but twice as fat with the barb of the hook exposed out the bottom. Now just fish this as you would any other bait, it will stay on the hook,sink and get eaten by Bream. If you wind the bait in you will prob have to change it. If the water is really dirty it won't be as good either. With the burley bread, mix it in a bucket with a bit of water and turn it too paste, not too much water, throw out every now and then. With this, the fish tap tap the bait then leave it for a few secs....usually the next time they grab it they sort of just make off with the bait, let your rod tip go with them for a bit....sort of drop your rod with them then as you feel ready then strike!

Summary: Did i mention FRESH BREAD? DON'T BE CHEAP

All these methods work well for Bream, good luck Sean

[imnotoriginal]

I pasted this from one the thread 'imnotoriginal' was talking about.

BTW Thanks for the wrap mate, Have you tried it?

Yeah mate, a number of times. I'd been using a very similar technique off the jetty at moreton for many years, initially with cheese. The bread works just as well and is a hell of a lot cheaper .
Joel

[tunaticer]

Live hardiheads NEVER fail. freshly dead hardiheads are almost as good and you do not ever get pickers.

Jack.

[guru2]

ive always used live blood worms but i have heard that ox heart or liver is just as good

[Sean]

I keep left overs from ANY dinner (( even the crap ones)more leftovers from them!) And take my daughter down the road and rarely get nothing.....sausage is a particularly good bait....Pineapple is good too, 2or3 pieces threaded on to a hook and your away......remember the all important burley!!

[Homer_Jay]

Sounds like the old bream will eat anything. I like the odds of getting a feed!

[rockfisho]

pippy and worm are good on the beach, but a big breambo will never turn down a fillet of flesh bait.

rockfisho