Suspend,Sink or Float

[Ace of Spades]

Would seem that the most popular types of Minnows and Shads are either Floating or Suspending.

Are Bream fishermen using Sinking Minnows and Shads?

If so when and where would a Sinking type be best used? and why dont they seem to be popular?

Ace of Spades

[Bear]

I like to be able to pause a lure when it gets hit. I've used sinking lures and find they get snagged up too much in timber. Suspending or slow rising for me, so I can bump over timber.

[Salmo]

I like shallow running sinkers in weedy conditions ... cast to the spot, let it sink a moment before giving a twitch....better than having a bibbed lure dig down into the weed and snag

You can keep it out of the snags with a bit of practise....

Rapala CD3's and CD5's (CD= Count down) would be the most common I guess but I have a few other's like Salmo Hornets and Predators which slowly sink. I thi k there use to be a sinking scorpion didn’t there??????? Or was that a Newell scorp?????

Keep in mind ...with sinkers most are designed for fresh water not brackish so the sink rate is slower in our estuaries

[Ace of Spades]

Interesting Salmo about most of the lures wer'e using are used for fresh water, have found that most suspending lures become slow floaters, I've got a salt water swimming pool so test out lures and make adjustments usually larger trebles does the trick before going for a fish.

Ace of Spades

[Salmo]

Just some Spade...not all.

Think about the country of orgin or what it was designed for....probably trout, bass or maybe something else...not brackish blackies

I guess some of the better quality lures with good saltwater trebles and split rings are a different story.

Salt water pool is a mint thing to have in the back yard mate I even test out my new plastics in there....see what they look like dead stick.....
How many part per million is salt water????? Maybe I can set the pool up during the winter with a few blackies to play with....

[kamikazeghost]

Depends where i'm fishing.

If i'm on the oyster racks and it's ebbing tide....... to get under the racks where the bream will be, I use a sinking Tiemco stick minnow suspending and use the "walk the dog" twitch to entice them.

If the water is over the racks, then, it's the floating pencil minnows using the "walk the dog" twitch, or normal HB's like attacks, SX40s using an aggravated twitch method.

That's what you should consider to give you enough options and variety to target where the bream are going to be at the given point in time you fish for them.