Bream lures?
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Bream lures?
Just wanted to get opinions on what hard body and soft plastic lures
People use for bream?
Thanks jolly-fisho :water:
People use for bream?
Thanks jolly-fisho :water:
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Re: Bream lures?
not sure where your fishing mate bream in Hopkins at Warrnambool like lures in purple and z man plastics motor oil color :
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Re: Bream lures?
Any plastics really, I like shrimp/prawn profiles (Atomic prong, Savage Gear Shrimp etc.).
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Re: Bream lures?
If I was starting breamin afresh I'd just kit out with:
Zman grubs
Damiki Monster Mikis
Damiki rippers, eyeball tails, gulp sandworm or a similar worm like plastic
Strike pro micro vibe
Strike pro hummer
Ecogear VX / ZX blades
Cranka cranks
Atomic bream shads or cranka shads
Cranka minnows
Cranka crab
Personally for me the above covers most of the areas I fish, the way I fish and also doesn't result in uncontrollable amounts of lures I never tie on.
Everyone will have a different set of favourite brands but if you stick to the two or three SP patterns then add some vibes, blades, cranks, shads and minnows you're golden.
Generally vibes, blades, plastics during winter. Hardbodies and cranks summer. Nothing above 40 or 50mm in size.
I am 95% bream so my lure collection reflects that. If you wanted to take a more casual approach you can get away with a lot less - but depends on where you fish ie if docklands a strike pro micro vibe and a few blades would do you OK to start with.
Zman grubs
Damiki Monster Mikis
Damiki rippers, eyeball tails, gulp sandworm or a similar worm like plastic
Strike pro micro vibe
Strike pro hummer
Ecogear VX / ZX blades
Cranka cranks
Atomic bream shads or cranka shads
Cranka minnows
Cranka crab
Personally for me the above covers most of the areas I fish, the way I fish and also doesn't result in uncontrollable amounts of lures I never tie on.
Everyone will have a different set of favourite brands but if you stick to the two or three SP patterns then add some vibes, blades, cranks, shads and minnows you're golden.
Generally vibes, blades, plastics during winter. Hardbodies and cranks summer. Nothing above 40 or 50mm in size.
I am 95% bream so my lure collection reflects that. If you wanted to take a more casual approach you can get away with a lot less - but depends on where you fish ie if docklands a strike pro micro vibe and a few blades would do you OK to start with.
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Re: Bream lures?
Zerek shrimp in pink works well for me . Also if you are starting with sp even some of the pre rigged one's work (caught my pb on one). Bloodworm wriggler works well too.
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Re: Bream lures?
blood worm or wasabi wriggler for works best for me up gippsland.
ecogear SX 40's work great too!!
ecogear SX 40's work great too!!
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Re: Bream lures?
Soft Plastics a plenty:
Squidgy Wrigglers 50-100mm in bloodworm, wasabi, etc
Squidgy Lobby 80-100mm in wasabi
Squidgy flick baits 65-100mm in pillie, evil minnow
Berkley Gulp! 2 inch shrimp in pepper prawn
Zman grubs 2.5 inch in motor oil, amber, bloodworm.
Damiki Grubs, etc
All of these have worked for me with jigheads from 1/12th to 1/40th oz. jigheads weight is more important than plastics as the 'flutter time', when it sinks, has to be as long as possible to look natural and give the bream more time to smash it.
Hard bodies:
Again plenty to choose from,
EcoGear SX40 and SX48s work well, Col351 is a favourite
Halco Scorpions in Mullet, Firetiger go alright.
My number 1 hardbody lure is the Bassday Sugar Deep 35 and 55F in bright orange or the pink. These lures have caught me the most fish. These are expensive but worth it.
Also the Megabass Live-X Smolt is another gun lure although pricey.
Retrieve methods are important too. Slow rolling, twitch-pause, etc all get strikes but mix them up if you can't find success.
Squidgy Wrigglers 50-100mm in bloodworm, wasabi, etc
Squidgy Lobby 80-100mm in wasabi
Squidgy flick baits 65-100mm in pillie, evil minnow
Berkley Gulp! 2 inch shrimp in pepper prawn
Zman grubs 2.5 inch in motor oil, amber, bloodworm.
Damiki Grubs, etc
All of these have worked for me with jigheads from 1/12th to 1/40th oz. jigheads weight is more important than plastics as the 'flutter time', when it sinks, has to be as long as possible to look natural and give the bream more time to smash it.
Hard bodies:
Again plenty to choose from,
EcoGear SX40 and SX48s work well, Col351 is a favourite
Halco Scorpions in Mullet, Firetiger go alright.
My number 1 hardbody lure is the Bassday Sugar Deep 35 and 55F in bright orange or the pink. These lures have caught me the most fish. These are expensive but worth it.
Also the Megabass Live-X Smolt is another gun lure although pricey.
Retrieve methods are important too. Slow rolling, twitch-pause, etc all get strikes but mix them up if you can't find success.
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Re: Bream lures?
what colours are best? and 2 inchers are the go? do you use scent? cheerssloth wrote:If I was starting breamin afresh I'd just kit out with:
Zman grubs
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Bream lures?
@jacob.s
If you could only have one I'd go for a 2.5" motor oil. 2" are good if the bite is slow but 2.5 is a better general purpose size. A 2.5" on a 1/16 jighead can catch anything.
Saying that. I've started using "hooked on plastics" grubs. A guy in Perth makes and sells them. Has a Facebook page if you want to check them out. Cheaper than the zmans, no need for superglue or headlokz and some cool colours.
I try to avoid endlessly buying new lures so I only run 18 SP and a liqua locker with gulp sandworms and gulp crabbies. That is my entire SP setup for breamin. Bycatch can be flatties, pinkies, trevs ... Pretty much anything in the estuary. I put a lot of effort into picking a core set of SP that suit the way I fish and where I fish.
80 & 100mm squidgy wrigglers
Hooked on plastic grubs
Damiki monster mikis
Eyeball tails
3" power minnows
Are you catch and release for bream or fishing for a feed ?
Edit - should add. I always use scent on my SP. S-factor or as backup if I've run out - sax scent.
If you could only have one I'd go for a 2.5" motor oil. 2" are good if the bite is slow but 2.5 is a better general purpose size. A 2.5" on a 1/16 jighead can catch anything.
Saying that. I've started using "hooked on plastics" grubs. A guy in Perth makes and sells them. Has a Facebook page if you want to check them out. Cheaper than the zmans, no need for superglue or headlokz and some cool colours.
I try to avoid endlessly buying new lures so I only run 18 SP and a liqua locker with gulp sandworms and gulp crabbies. That is my entire SP setup for breamin. Bycatch can be flatties, pinkies, trevs ... Pretty much anything in the estuary. I put a lot of effort into picking a core set of SP that suit the way I fish and where I fish.
80 & 100mm squidgy wrigglers
Hooked on plastic grubs
Damiki monster mikis
Eyeball tails
3" power minnows
Are you catch and release for bream or fishing for a feed ?
Edit - should add. I always use scent on my SP. S-factor or as backup if I've run out - sax scent.