How deep?

[eddystone]

Hi all,

Whats a good depth to fish for bream with SP'S????

Is there a maximum depth?

Theres one fairly deep hole i know about in the river i fish. There is pretty much no tidal flow. Would it be possible to get a bream on sp here? Would it be easier or harder???

Also what are your views on jig heads???

Kind, size and weight.

Thanks
eddystone

[pw-bream]

A good depth to fish at is the depth the Bream are feeding at.
Sometimes that might be on the bottom of a deep hole, sometimes that might be in the first metre of water.

At Docklands in Melbourne for instance the water depth is something like 14 metres where it was dredged for ships to dock. Sometimes the Bream can be caught right down on the bottom, (the last Melb BREAM comp was won by someone fishing the dredged channels), at other times the fish are feeding right near the surface on the growth on the pylons and other timbers.

In the first instance a heavy 1/8 oz weight might make best sense, in the second an un-weighted plastic or splitshot rig might allow a small SP Atomic craw or Ecogear Mini-tank to hover next to a pylon where a Bream would eat it.

Typically the least weight you can use to place the soft plastic or bait where the fish are feeding is the correct answer. In your example of a deep hole with no water movement a light weight would eventually get the lure down to the fish, but if that takes five minutes, it might be better to use a heavier weight so that the lure is presented to the fish quickly and can be kept in the feeding zone for longer.