Tournament dates - Bream fishing...

Happy Monday morning to you all!!! We have a few tournaments this week including one on Tuesday! so you better get ready! As I've said before I like to post tournament schedules on monday to give preparation time to anyone interested in participating in them so here they are but I also have another topic I'd like to talk about today.

Touenament dates:

Aug 28 - Tuesday Night Shoot-out - Deerpoint Lake, Highpoint Landing

Sept 1 - MHS Fund Raiser - Deerpoint Lake, High Point Landing

This is a type of panfish locally known as a "bream" as I'm sure you're probably familiar with. The most common are bluegill, redear sunfish (shellcracker), redbreast sunfish, spotted sunfish (stumpknocker) and warmouth. Although black bass are technically in the sunfish family, they are not considered to be bream. Almost any body of water in Florida, regardless of size or location, contains the popular bluegill and, probably to a lesser extent, redear sunfish.
Just due to the abundance of these fish in florida they have very high bag limits allowing for long, eventful fishing trips, and even with a limit of 100 more often then one may think you can leave the water with your limit. Sunfish bed in shallow water and will become more concentrated in these areas in preparation for the spawning season. They will likely begin to concentrate in the panhandle of Florida in early May. Shellcracker will bed well into August, while bluegill will periodically spawn throughout the summer months. Water depths for bedding bream may range anywhere from three to ten feet but are usually toward the shallower end of this range. Bluegill seem to opt for slightly shallower areas, but it's not unusual to see shellcracker and bluegill intermingle, using the same bedding areas at the same time.
Anglers in the Tallahassee area should break out their fly rods, limber bream poles, or light spinning tackle, because shellcrackers and bluegill provide a excellent chance to get out on the water and have a great time. Even though it's late for bedding both species should continue biting well throughout the summer months. I recommend lake Talquin as a good place to start and since I've not had a chance to scout it out myself I'll tell you that local biologists recommend working the upper end of the reservoir and in the back of various creeks in depths ranging from three to seven feet. The standard fare-live worms and crickets, small jigs, Beetle Spins, and fly gear-will all provide good results...

I really hope you find the information usefull and I hope to inspire people to get out and enjoy the water every chance they get. Remember to check with http://myfwc.com/fishing/ for all current local fishing regulations..