Fly rods for bream fishing

[brian cope]

Hey everyone, I’m a new member here and a long time fisherman. Bluegill, shellcrackers, and pumpkinseeds are my main quarry and I fish ponds and rivers from an Ultmate 12 kayak and from a Gheenoe. I’ve done very little fly fishing and what I have done has been with a very old fly rod and reel.

I’m wondering what you guys would recommend as a good setup for flyfishing for bream?

[John Williams]

Brian,
Depends on the Bream you are catching. I fish a little farm pond with palm + size bream in it and a 4# is more than enough. The caveat is the same pond has largemouth to 8+lbs. in it and when one of those grabs my popper it is game over pretty quickly (even worse when one of the slobs eats the sunfish you are playing).

[david king]

I’ve used a couple of 3 and 4 weight Sage trout rods and they work fine.
I had a TXL rod for a while and it was is a lot of fun! If you get lucky and stick a good Bass hang on and don’t put to much pressure on the upper half of the rod. Don’t try to lift or swing a bigger fish in a boat or on to shore. Once the Bass gets a little tired you can drag them in with a relatively straight rod.

[pete osborne]

Hey everyone, I’m a new member here and a long time fisherman. Bluegill, shellcrackers, and pumpkinseeds are my main quarry and I fish ponds and rivers from an Ultmate 12 kayak and from a Gheenoe. I’ve done very little fly fishing and what I have done has been with a very old fly rod and reel.

I’m wondering what you guys would recommend as a good setup for flyfishing for bream?

Brian, a greater starter setup:

[Chris Beech]

I’ve been using a Scott Warm Water Special #6 – nice rod for this kind of thing, but a different species of bream I think.

Best Regards,

Beechy

[andrew grabham]

I think that fly rods are a LOT stronger than we give
them credit for. It is just that they feel so delicate.

Peter Morse talks a lot about correct rod angles giving
the advantage back to the angler during the fight.
Believe me when I tell you it does, and it makes our
delicate twigs capable of great feats.

I don’t know enough about the physics of correct rod
bending ( I am thinking here of the senario of that 8lb
bass grabbing the fly) to explain it very well, but without
boasting I’ve used my #3wt to land fish of 7lb near cover
without ever coming close to breaking the rod.
(It did help that I wasn’t using MY rod the first time)

Get Mr Morse to explain this properly on the forum as
it has opened up a whole new world of confidence for me.

So Brian, what i would suggest is to buy a rod that feels sexy
when you cast it (whatever weight), beef up your leader a bit
and learn a different way of bending your rod when fighting
a fish rather than the traditional trout style of ‘high sticking’.
(Unless you need to high stick to cope with obstacles)

Andrew

[stan overstreet]

I can second the cabelas 3wt.

[brian cope]

Thanks a ton for all the responses. I didn’t even uderstand what 3-wt or 4-wt meant before reading this so it’s obvious I didn’t do any research before posting here. After reading your responses and reading up on what you’ve all mentioned, I have a much better understanding of what I’m looking for. I just ordered one of the Cabela’s Three Forks 3-wt rods/Ross reel combo for 99 bucks.

I’m looking forward to getting it and hooking into some fat bluegills with it.

Thanks again for the advice.

Awesome website, by the way.

[david king]

“So Brian, what i would suggest is to buy a rod that feels sexy
when you cast it” Thats a great line!

[anonymous]

Any rod will do.

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