| Bream are a very structure orientated fish, | | | | the trays as a source of food and shelter. There |
| meaning that they rarely swim in open water. By | | | | is also a ribbon weed bed close by where small |
| structure I mean reefs, moored boats, jetties, | | | | green hard body lures work extremely well. |
| pontoons, weed beds etc. bream need a place to | | | | In the summer months we have prawn runs and |
| retreat to from danger and to feed. Bream will | | | | around these times prawn imitations work very |
| eat almost anything from crabs and prawns to | | | | well. Bream will look for shade in the heat of the |
| sewage. They are referred to as scavengers. | | | | day so shade from over hanging trees and under |
| Their diet varies considerably, relying on their | | | | moored boats are great places to target. Shade |
| habitat. This is where the smart angler can have | | | | from over hanging trees are a great place to |
| an advantage by reading the signs and fishing with | | | | throw a cicada or cricket type lure as the bream |
| something similar to what the fish would naturally | | | | lay in wait for insects to fall from the trees and |
| feed on. I fish an oyster encrusted rock wall and | | | | then make short work of them. |
| have found that the fish in this area eat a lot of | | | | Rock walls and the base of mangrove trees are |
| oysters and green weed. | | | | great places to use crab style lures as these |
| I have personally found that small green plastic | | | | make great habitat for crabs and the clever |
| lures work well here, as I feel the fish think that | | | | bream knows this and is always ready for a free |
| my lure is green weed. I also fish around oyster | | | | feed. |
| farms, fishing all around the wooden trays and | | | | Bridge pylons are a magnet for bream, they hide |
| frames. In this area you can't fish with lead | | | | amongst the pylons out of the current waiting for |
| headed jigs and soft plastics as they get snagged | | | | small fish, prawns, crabs etc to be washed past |
| too much, instead we use small floating hard body | | | | by the current then they ambush them. After |
| lures sometime referred to as crank baits. | | | | periods of heavy rain bream will hang around |
| This way we can work these lures over the | | | | storm water outlets where they flow into |
| oysters and the fish will dart out from under the | | | | estuaries picking off anything that washes in. |
| trays and take your lure. The fish in this area use | | | | |