Finding bream on sonar...

[jawjatek]

I've been searching and reading since I joined this site. There are 10 threads in this sub-forum with the word "crappie" in the title, and none with the word "bream". Is a sonar useful for finding bream?

I know what bream beds look like (plenty of pics of those around), but I don't have SS, and this time of year (fall) is different from the spawn. I was hoping someone had some screen shots from hunting bream - not side scan pics of beds - but bream hanging out and not bedding, or otherwise stacked up. I have a Hook2 with only 2D and DI on my kayak, works pretty great. I can't tweak it as much as you can a carbon, but it does the basics well. No sidescan.

I've been pretty successful finding bass in this particular lake, but need some bream for the pan. I went last week and caught some shellcrackers on red worms, a couple of them were real nice, so the fish are there, but I only found a couple here and there, no real consistent spots. I'm looking to catch more, and was wondering if I could make use of the sonar as a tool to help in that task.

I definitely see logs, trees, weeds, and bait balls. Just never fished for bream much this time of year, and never with a sonar. I want to learn how to locate bream when they aren't bedding. Not even sure a sonar will be as useful for finding bream as it is on crappie.

Sonar is definitely useful on crappie! No question! What about for finding bream? TIA

[Ben Danbleume]

During warm weather, you can find them on Table Rock related to the thermocline, and usually closer to points than suspended. A nightcrawler on a dropshot makes quick work of them when located.