Catching Finnicky Bream

[nabs]

hey guys
I need some help with catching VERY finnicky bream.
IF you have any tips on retrieves and lures to use it be good.
Im landbased and fishing around pontoons, Ive been throwing bread around the pontoons and the bream come out from under the pontoon and take the bread, but when the lure comes near they always swim away...
Any help would be great
Thanks

[Nath_18]

This is a hard question to answer because knowone likes Finicky Bream and will generally leave them alone. Ill give it a crack.

Percistance, patients, confidence and distance plays a big roll in getting Finicky Bream to eat a lure. Keep plugging away at them, try different retrieves, lures and presentations untill you get some kind of different response from them. The great thing about Bream is that when you get them excited you know because they act different and start getting cocky with your bait. Even if you change your leader weight you should see some kind of change.

Keep plugging away but remember they will get used to you being there and know not to eat you lure if you plug to much Keep the balance.

Finicky Bream arnt finicky for no reasons. There on the edge because there scared. Say you chasing them from a boat and the water is cristal clear Keep your distance and try not to move to quickly.
During the Gippsland Lakes round just gone my boater and I had to get down on our hands and knees to be able to get a response from the Bream. If we stood up on the deck the Bream would shoot even though we had the boat positioned so we could just cast at the bank.

Confidence - If you dont have confidence your not going to catch fish. Its as simple as that. Try and keep your confidence high. Its very hard to loose it when your getting frustrated from seing all these fish but not catching them.

Anyways keep plugging away, Try different tides, times of day and angles you cast on. You will be suprised by some of the stupid reasons Bream wont touch a bait..

cheers, Nathan

[Drewy]

yep, well said Nath, try slowing right down and reducing your jig weight. Most of the time l target the bream l can't see, sight fishing can be frustraing at the best of times, generally they are tight to cover so if you do hook up you get blown away in front of your eyes.

good luck, have fun.

Drew

[Stephen Wilson]

Mate simple stop feeding them bread
once they lock in on bread thats all they want. have you tried a little white popper
just fished with Adam Royter here in QLD. and the only thing that they would take when we came across bream feeding on the bread was an old popper that Adam had scraped all the paint off and was white but they only had a swipe at it every now and then. Normally though just move on or come back at low light or even night. hope this helps.

[deacon]

mate try some 3 or 4lb flurocarbon (yama or line systems do good ones) then a gama EGW worm hook with a 4" or 6" berkley gulp sandworm (4" is better) in ether camo or natural. if that dosent work mabye a Ecogear sx40 in fostor legend or tarre brown trout on the same line. and last but not least if the waters deep try a berkley 2" power grub in bloodworm on a 1/24th jig on the flurocarbon.

HTH

deacon

[Gutsy]

I would say downsize to say 4pd flouro, go a hidden weight and put something like a 1 3/4 ecogear paddle tail on and see if you can tempt them out.

All the guys have given good suggestions. A sign of a good angler is the ability to think.

Cheers.

Marcel.

[Nath_18]

Originally posted by Gutsy

A sign of a good angler is the ability to think.

Cheers.

Marcel.

Well said mate..

cheers, Nathan

[Shortlite]

Any current where you're fishing? Try Gulp (bait) or 2" Power minnows rigged unweighted on very light leader, and just let it drift under the pylons with the current. Any retrieve should be dead slow, but you are trying to deadstick the placcie.

Problem is in those places people feed the fish and waterfowl, so they already keyed to free white tucker.

If you do have to use berley to get their interest, remember you are bringing them out of shelter, so they will be cautious. Try drying the bread and just using crumbs, so as not to fill the fish up. Daytime is usually not the best time to try and get such fish, 'cos they're keyed on food and are highly visual. We get a lot more bites at night in spots where we have to resort to bread to get the suckers to show themselves in the day.