Spawning beds usually show up on gravel or shell bottoms, often in relation to a point, hump or shelf located in close proximity to deeper water.Ĭolonies of spawning beds are easy to spot if you know what to look for. May and June are sometimes touted as the best months to fish for them, but the truth is bream will spawn off and on all summer long.īream spawn in “colonies” that may consist of as few as 15 spawning beds to as many as 100 or more. The panfish are among the last to move shallow to spawn in Texas waters. The pint-sized sun- fish are willing to coop erate just about any time, but are easiest to catch in numbers during the summer months, while they are spawning. Though bream may be small, they may be brawn- iest little fighters on the planet. Big sun- fish, some that looked to be 6-7 inches long, were riding shotgun over individual nests like turkey buzzards on a road kill.Ĭrash Course on Bream Just about any pan- fish junkie is sure to agree there is plenty to love about this picture. The water was so still and clear I could make out the mussel shells and small pea gravel lining in each bed from 30 feet away. It was a beautiful sight, one that any pan fisherman would truly appreciate.īream beds - close to two dozen of them - were stacked side-by-side on a tiny point shrouded in about three feet of water almost clear as vodka.ĭark in color and circular in shape, the “colony” of spawning beds stood out like an aquatic honeycomb in stark contrast to the sugar sand bottom.
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