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Monster Bream
Posted By: ElkHunter
Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:09 AM
Went fishing earlier this week and caught my personal best bream. A stud at 1.71 lbs.
Caught him on a fly rod with a spinning reel on it. Ten pound test braid fishing with crickets.
Posted By: IDOT
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:23 AM
Goodun right there
Posted By: perchjerker
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:29 AM
That thang is a mule! Congrats!
Posted By: metalmuncher
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:44 AM
Wow!! That one has shoulders.
Posted By: Farmer64
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:48 AM
Congrats on a whopper!
Posted By: alhawk
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:52 AM
Posted By: hayman
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 03:04 AM
Man I have a hard time catching crappie that size.
Posted By: inatree
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 03:10 AM
Dayum what a bream!
Posted By: AC870
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 03:19 AM
I’d mount that or replica or something.
Posted By: James
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 03:49 AM
Very Nice! And it looks like 100 percent Bluegill to me
Posted By: GKelly
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 04:06 AM
aint even long arming it and its wide as your chest Id mount that thing
Posted By: Wiley Coyote
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 07:18 AM
Any bream with a forehead is a hoss!
Posted By: Drake322
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 11:59 AM
That is shonuff a daddy rabbit! I have never seen one that big, congrats.
Posted By: FurFlyin
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 12:14 PM
That's a hoss, congrats!
And it looks like 100 percent Bluegill to me
I disagree. Looks like it's a shellcracker cross to me. Look at the little orange tip on it's "ear"
Cool. Where did you catch it.
Posted By: M48scout
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 12:26 PM
Wow! I bet that was fun on the other end of a fly rod
Posted By: Dkhargroves
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 01:27 PM
That’s a damn stud right there
Wow Barry that is probably the most impressive fish ever posted in the fishing section.. BY FAR! GOOD GOLLY I bet that monster was cutting and ripping back and forth. Super congrats dude! Just Wow!
Cool. Where did you catch it.
Yes. Please list the coordinates.
Posted By: Stob
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:02 PM
I’d mount that or replica or something.
yep
Posted By: DEADorALIVE
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 02:48 PM
Friend of mine showed me a mount of a 3+ pounder he caught once...didn’t even look like a bream, it was cartoonishly huge! Yours, at 1.7 lbs, is a much prettier fish. As others have said, he needs to find his way to the wall!
Posted By: tfd1224
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 04:49 PM
Barry earned that one. He was probably still wet.
Posted By: OlTimer
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 06:27 PM
That's a male shell cracker. And a good one at that! Congrats!!!!
Posted By: CAM
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 07:27 PM
WTG Barry
Posted By: birdcarver
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 07:28 PM
Nice one
Posted By: jb20
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 07:50 PM
Biggest one I've seen
Posted By: top cat
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 09:38 PM
He's growed
Posted By: quailman
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 10:29 PM
Damn brother! Biggun!
He'll make a turd for sure!!!
Posted By: Snuffy
Re: Monster Bream - 05/18/19 11:09 PM
Well managed pond or lake and well feed. Either way it’s a pig for sure.👍🏻
Posted By: CAL
Re: Monster Bream - 05/19/19 02:17 PM
Would’ve been a goodun next year!
That’s a monster
Posted By: Tigger85
Re: Monster Bream - 05/19/19 05:42 PM
Great fish
Posted By: Mike59
Re: Monster Bream - 05/19/19 08:08 PM
Now that's what I call an Alabama bull bream
That's a male shell cracker. And a good one at that! Congrats!!!!
shellcracker....say what ????? looks like a bluegill.
Posted By: DryFire
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 03:32 PM
I've never seen perch this big in Texas. Friday, I caught 5 big ones while trying to catch small ones for catfish bait.
Posted By: ElkHunter
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 06:14 PM
Well managed pond or lake and well feed. Either way it’s a pig for sure.👍🏻
That is the crazy part. It isn't. They don't do anything to it at all. No telling what it could be if they did.
Posted By: ElkHunter
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 06:30 PM
There are some pure bluegill and shell crackers in the pond but they aren't getting as big. I think these are some sort of hybrids. Don't know that much about bream though. I have caught at least a dozen of these over 1.5 lbs in this pond over the past 2 weeks.
I believe the pond is actually very mismanaged. I have caught hundreds of bass out of it over the past 9 months and still can't catch one over 5 lbs. Have caught several bass multiple times now. Based on the sore mouths. The bream are hard to catch. I don't think there are many of them in the pond either.
The pond edge has floating grass mat about 30 feet all around the edge. The floating grass is full of real small bass and bream. But, you hardly ever catch any small fish. I bet I haven't caught more than 3 bass under a pound out of it and only one small bream.
I have fished worms up to 15 inches. I have fished big top water baits. I have brought in small bream to fish with. Still nothing over 5 lbs.
When I pull up my anchor it is full of silt. I haven't found a single place in they pond that doesn't have a silt bottom. There is no structure in the pond either. I haven't hung on anything except the drain pipe.
I think the grass mat is good and bad. You can kill bass around it early and late. A trick worm is a pure joy.
Not complaining at all. I love this pond. I just think it could use some help. It could be better.
Posted By: Snuffy
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 09:41 PM
The pond is probably over populated with bass. That’s why they’re small. The over population of bass keeps the bream thinned down so only the strongest and biggest survive. Lefthorn is the pond guru. He can tell you way more than I can.
Posted By: lefthorn
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 10:53 PM
That does look like a hybrid bluegill. Would need a closer look but you can see a little red ear on him as well as the bluegill features
Posted By: bloodtrail
Re: Monster Bream - 05/20/19 10:58 PM
Very cool! Nice catch!
Posted By: Bamabucks14
Re: Monster Bream - 05/21/19 02:01 AM
That’s a pretty fish! Congrats on the catch!
Posted By: inatree
Re: Monster Bream - 05/21/19 03:27 AM
Hey I don't care what they are. I will volunteer to go help you anytime.
Posted By: Gulfcoast
Re: Monster Bream - 05/21/19 07:52 PM
Elkhunter: Pm sent to you.