Best Bream Bait

[FTW]

Upper reaches of the tidal system I use tinned corn works a treat

[MudRiverDan]

Something is not quite right about playing with un-refridgerated Chicken let alone the guts! Mullet strips would be near on last on my bait list when using fish flesh.

I voted Prawns!, but if you buy fresh mullet from woolies (and I mean fresh it has to look pink/fleshy not grey/stiff) and use it on the same day, its great beach bait for big Bream.


Dan

[tunaticer]

Live prawns......no better bait in the world.

[trymyluck]

Live prawns......no better bait in the world.

You beat me to it, although the 2 biggest bream I have caught were caught on whiting flesh baits.......

[mattooty]

One spot I used to fish we got all our bigger fish on pencil gars. The ones that aren't much longer than your fingers. Unweighted and wound over the structure they got boofed by a consistently better class of fish. If I'm in for a night of it, I'll take mullet (gut and fillets), green prawns, plenty of chook pellets and bread for burley and collect some live herring or biddys on the way. I don't think it's the be all to end all but it catches me fish I suppose.

[NAGG]

Live prawn or Live Yabbie ....... irresistible !!!

[Scalem]

Back in the days before soft plastics I used chicken thigh cut into strips so that I could trail about an inch behind the hook to make it look like a worm, then I would add a tin/ bottle of anchovies including the oil and mix it all up, leave in fridge overnight to marinate before the day fishing. Mix it a couple of times to make sure its all coated.. Smelly, fishy, oily little critters that anchovies are, think about that?? It was the best formula I could come up with if I didn't have the time to get bait, just raid the wifes' stash in the freezer and stock pile the anchovies in the pantry just to be ready at any time you make a snap decision to go. 10 mins and your done! ( + the apology of using that nights dinner plans) So I voted other.

Works a treat!

Scalem

[Haji-Baba]

Fished in the Bribie Passage quite a few years ago and two younger blokes came in with consistently good hauls of bream.
Daylight hours, under the mainland end of the bridge.

Took me a few days to work out their technique.

Hang on to your chair,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Rotten Hardiheads.

Left hanging in a sugar bag in the sun till they swelled up and then if the gut burst putting them on a hook, all the better.

Bream are scavengers and will take almost anything. Caught a lot on bread crusts. A mate uses chicken hearts, bullocks liver and heart. We fished together at night a few weeks ago and the best bait by far was heart.

Any bait that catches fish is good bait.

Have fun Haji-Baba

[gruntahunta]

All very true...they will eat anything......even plastic as Scalem says....the 39cm one I got the other day was eating the cooked prawn shells that I was throwing over as berley...he had some in his guts... He took a whole Dead Herring.

Sister.in.law uses rump steak or Windsor sausage and catches big fellas.

[Scalem]

All very true...they will eat anything......even plastic as Scalem says....the 39cm one I got the other day was eating the cooked prawn shells that I was throwing over as berley...he had some in his guts... He took a whole Dead Herring.

Sister.in.law uses rump steak or Windsor sausage and catches big fellas.

I'm no expert catching bream on plastics, although I have. I don't target them these days because my rig is not set up for it and their bigger cousin snapper smallest legal size is a significant bream of equal measurement. I believe the weapon of choice would be a shallow draft boat with bow mount electric motor like the ABT comp guys use. Any tinnie would do so long as you can fit an electric. Its too hard for me to sneak around mangrove or pontoon lined waterways in a 6 mtr half cab. So if I were to target bream, it would be at anchor with my bait of choice as above.

Scalem

[ranga7]

Anything alive, yabs, prawns etc goes 4 most fishing

[cuzzamundi]

Depends on location to a degree.

Overall, I voted 'other' - My two favourites are:

Chicken Thigh filllet
Ox Kidney/Heart

Cuzza

[wayno60]

ive heard about steak before... very tuff for them to get off the hook so it keep them hangin around longer.

[QuinTin]

mullet soaked in tuna oil is what i use down this way up the sunny coast i use yabbies or both

[gruntahunta]

Interesting no one has voted for worms. I remember a trip down the Pin when I got about 20 and they would not bite on anything else but live worms.