What are the best lures/colors where the forage is bream?

[Callin' In Slick]

As always, thanks for the insights. At this rate, I'm gonna have to send you all a fruit basket.

[keithdog]

Bream is the main food source in the area lakes I fish. Two lures I have done exceptionally well with is the Bandit 100 & 200 series crankbaits in the bluegill pattern. The other is the Strike King KVD series spinnerbait. The exact spinnerbait is the 3/8oz bluegill colored magic tail skirt, with gold colorado/willow blade combo. Both have done an excellent job of putting a deep bend in my rods!

[Rebbasser]

What Keith said. In the Bandit line Salad Bar is a good color, too. Since bluegill is your main forage you won't go wrong with gold/olive main color with blue and chartreuse accents. In other words, bluegill colors.

[BeaverIslander]

Originally Posted by Rebbasser

What Keith said. In the Bandit line Salad Bar is a good color, too. Since bluegill is your main forage you won't go wrong with gold/olive main color with blue and chartreuse accents. In other words, bluegill colors.

Yep, I agree. Just match the color of the local forage. I have some olive cranks that have a little blue paint on the spine and orange nail polish on the breast. I also match a gold shiner colored spinnerbait with an orange or yellow plastic trailer when I suspect that bass are feeding on bluegills and pumpkinseeds. A spinnerbait matched the basic size and profile of a sunfish pretty well, too.

[BassinNC]

Strike king makes a bream colored crank bait and blue gill color jigs and spinner baits. Also the kopper live targets has a blue gill or bream color.
They all have worked for me other than the live target, I have only tried the shad color and it proved well for me.

[BigBassin144]

+1 on the bandits. The 100 and 200s in Bluegill color are great cranks.

BB

[Garry2rs]

Here are two Bream patterns that I have used in AZ.
They are both made by Koppers - Live Target.


These are super high definition baits that are so real looking you have to see them to believe the detail.
I got them from Tackle Warehouse.

The water that I fish, is usually quite heavily stained.
I have used the Spro Little John in Rootbeer/Chartreuse, with good success.

Other cranks I have had success with generally all have Chartreuse sides, including the KVD Sexy Chartreuse Shad rattle bait.

and the shallow diver crankbait.

These baits are far less expensive than the Koppers or the Spro.
Garry2R's

[Brauer-stache]

The stike king trap is a great bait---heck, it won the classic, I just wish that finish would last longer than three fish!!!

Anyway, cranks and sprinnerbaits are all great, but jigs, tubes, and senkos are often overlooked. A wacky rigged senko is a great post spawn bait to throw to those big lazy females. And all three of these baits are great to throw around bluegill beds. You can also think about the blugill spawn. If I can find a bunch of bluegill beds, I'll always try to look for bass around the first cover nearby.

[screwballl]

I love it once the bass spawn starts... usually 2-4 months of good fishing, not only bass but also bluegill

[Cavs1123]

try this


or this

[wareagledc]

I like the root beer color bandit carries. It seems to work in Guntersville.

[BigBassin144]

Originally Posted by Cavs1123

try this

That's what I was going to say. One of my favorite crankbaits in a small reservoir we fish that has a ton of small bluegill.

Strike king also has a bluegill colored spinnerbait, so I'd give that a try. We've also done decent at the same reservoir with a sexy shad spinnerbait.

BB