Bream jigs, soft plastics or lures?

I was just wondering for bream what do you think is best? Lures, soft plastics or jigs? Please name the brand name below.

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 As a beginner myself for

Mon, 2014-02-03 06:26

 As a beginner myself for chasing bream on artificials I've caught way more fish on soft plastics. I'm focusing much more on hard bodies at the moment, the main problem I've found is that with the two tiny trebles it picks up a lot of weed etc... But I tend to catch more flatties and grunters on the hard bodies. I reckon most colours of soft plastics work but I tend to use the green chartreuse sparkle of the z man 2.5 inch in the mornings and use the darker ones like the motoroil in the late afternoon. After talking to a few lb bream fishos that I've met while fishing, they tend to cover a lot of ground and move locations. Sometimes I can be fishing in one location and see nothing, then walk 100m along the same stretch and find a school of bream. Good luck

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 Everyone says it, and for

Tue, 2014-02-04 12:01

 Everyone says it, and for good reason the zman motor oil 2.5' grubz are fantastic. last summer I caught a countless number of bream on them.

Hard bodies are what i started using when i was fresh to the game and they work, but the catch rates arent quite as high. They're what i go to on the flats

because generally there's a few blowies around but casting into a deeper channel you have to go a softie. Jig heads depend on how strong the wind and tide are.

I usually use if its flat tide and little wind 1/32 oz, but most of the time a 1/24 or 1/16 is better with a size 2 hook. Atomic hardz shad 40 has worked well for me 

on both bream ans flathead, as has the sx40. I've had an awesome session in Kalbarri on these cheaper lures that you cant get in Aus anymore :( ($12 a pop) that was a fish a cast so you can do just fine if you don't want to spend big bucks on hard bods. 

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