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Catching bedding bream is as easy as swinging a cricket or worm into a pond.

Worms vs. crickets — or go for a fly

May 1, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The cricket vs. worm argument is an old one. Live bait is a necessary evil of bream fishing, especially in the spring when bluegill are on their beds. […]

Oh boy: Bream! Return to your fishing roots

April 30, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

May begins serious fishing for bluegill and other sunfish around Mississippi. […]

Bream with strawberry chutney

June 15, 2016 David Hawkins

Tired of fried bream filets and french fries with cole slaw? This Bream with strawberry chutney recipe is a healthy way of preparing fish. […]

The best panfish rig

May 16, 2016 Andy Crawford

Andy Crawford decided one day to try a slip cork rig — and it changed his bream-fishing world. It’s easy. And it catches a ton of fish. […]

What is a redear bream

April 15, 2016 Mississippi Sportsman

So what is a redear? It is a panfish and cousin of the more common bluegill. […]

The author had a hand in catching these 32 redear that weighed 34 pounds at Trace State Park near Pontotoc. They were bedding in the shady backend of a shallow cove.

Get ready for redear — Expert fishing tips for redear bream

April 1, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Plop! The first cast of a worm-filled hook, sinker and small cork hit the shallow water of the Old Natchez Trace Lake at Trace State Park with a light sound. […]

Full moon = bedding bream

March 24, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

When redear and bluegill are bedding, you can find them sharing the same areas. There’s a good chance you’ll find them after a full moon. […]

Don’t overlook Eagle Lake, where this 2-pound bluegill was taken from underneath a boat house. A few of these would make a big meal.

Bream are renowned for bedding on a full moon. A male will make the nest, a shallow depression in the sand or silt on the bottom of the lake. A new moon causes a similar but lesser bedding period. […]

When four bream, three bluegills and a redear, are big enough to cover the lid of a cooler, you know there’s a delicious meal waiting at the end of a fun day of fishing.

Having a nose for bream

July 15, 2015 David Hawkins

Fish long enough and you will notice a pungent smell near bedding locations. Some anglers compare it to the smell of ripe watermelon. It will appear in conjunction with a thin, oily film on the surface of the water. […]

Brad Taylor knows finding bream beds can be the key to catching numbers of huge panfish.

How to mop up on bedding bream

June 21, 2015 Terry Madewell

Spawning bluegills and shellcrackers take over the shallows as summer approaches. Here’s how to catch a mess of them on fishing beds. […]

Bream fishing can be a lot of fun, as well as very productive — if you know the right approach.

Top 8 tips for more bream

June 20, 2015 Jerald Horst

Veteran angler Freddie McMullen has learned how to up his odds of success. Here are his tips to fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish. […]

Chinquapins, properly called “redear sunfish” for obvious reasons, are always a prized catch for bream fishermen. They spawn much earlier than bluegills and only for a short 3-week period.

Top bream-fishing tackle

May 15, 2015 Jerald Horst

Charles Johnson grew up as a country boy fishing bream. He cut his own cane poles from creek cane (bamboo that had escaped from cultivation).

For bait, he dug earthworms or caught black crickets. […]