Bream Fishing

May 14, 2009  
Filed under Random

    The bream are biting at Santee, and so are the shell crackers.  You can catch a cooler full of bream and shell crackers by fishing cypress trees in three to five feet of water or off docks in five or six feet of water with brush or pea gravel around them.  These fish are biting worms and crickets.  On May 9, 2009, I went to Santee bream fishing and caught around sixty or seventy bream around docks that were in six feet of water and had tons of brush around them.  On one dock that was on the main lake, I caught about forty or fifty bream, and on a dock that was in a small cove, I caught about fifteen or twenty.  Most of the fish bit worms, but I caught some on crickets too.  At one point, I ran out of both, and instead of going to the store to buy more, I started throwing a small artificial cricket, and I even caught a few on it.  The fish started biting when the water warmed up and they moved into the shade under the docks.  When I found a side of a dock with shade coming out from it, this was usually the side that I caught the most fish on.  Now that summer is on its way, you should be able to go bream fishing on Santee and catch enough for supper.     

                                                                                                                             Anthony Fogner