Crappie/Bream
The bream bite is still sizzling across the Carolinas
The bream are bedding — and biting — on lakes all across the Carolinas. […]
Bream Xtra
Crappie/Bream
Bream basics in the Carolinas
June is prime time to catch bedding bream across the Carolinas, but you have to find them first. Here’s how to learn where to look…. […]
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Mooning over a bream?
J.D. Desrosiers of Greer, S.C., gives tips and tricks for using his kayak to go hunting for bream beds. […]
Crappie/Bream
Sacking Santee’s bedding bluegills
The Carolinas are blessed with numerous lakes, rivers and a spectacular coast packed with seemingly endless opportunities to wet a hook, but as far as fishing opportunities, it’s usually the big red drum, doormat flounder, chunky largemouth bass and hefty striped bass that bring anglers out of hiding. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Find the right pattern and load the boat with Cooper River bream
Wyn Mullins of North Charleston said the quickest way to limit out on bluegill in July is to find the right pattern quickly. […]
Featured
Catch more summer bream with this one tip
Night crawlers have caught untold numbers of bream for anglers, and while it’s tough to say there is a right or wrong way to hook one, it’s probably fair to say that at times, one way works better than another. […]
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Bream busters flock to North Carolina’s Northest Cape Fear River
Webster’s dictionary defines “idyllic” as “charmingly simple or picturesque.” If any place in the world meets that definition, it is the Northeast Cape Fear River. With banks shaded by cypress, gum, oak, hickory and pine trees wearing wigs of Spanish moss that waft in the gentlest breeze, it is one of the one of the most-beautiful blackwater rivers in North Carolina. […]
Fishing
Hoopee Hookers know how to hook a bream
The Johnson Beetlespin, Mepps Aglia, and Betts Spin are some of the lures many of us used when we were kids, and many of us still use those same lures today. They are inexpensive and simply get the job done. […]
Freshwater Fishing
A bream doubleheader
Bluegills and shellcrackers are collectively lumped into the category of bream, and these are the favorite target of many Sparkleberry Swamp anglers. Even though these are two different species of fish, they do hang out together, and anglers often catch them both in the same area, especially in shallow water. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Fly-fishing baits for bream
While the lion’s share of bream across North Carolina fall prey to natural baits, many fly-fishing enthusiasts turn to bream during the summer when trout can be less then cooperative. One of the most popular lure choices is Accardo’s Ligon Bream Killer. […]