Sunfish species like redear, redbreast, bluegill and longear spawn in colonies that consist of several dozen circular-shaped beds in a relatively small area. Sunfish, also called “bream,” like to spawn in areas with sand or gravel bottoms, usually in close proximity to some form of cover. Spawning takes place in late spring through summer at water depths as shallow as two feet to as deep as 15 feet in really clear water. COURTESY PHOTO / MATT WILLIAMS
Sunfish can be caught on variety of live and manufactured baits as well as tube jigs and spinners. It’s always a good idea to keep the bait and hook on the small side. COURTESY PHOTO / MATT WILLIAMS
There are no size or creel limits on bream in Texas, but anglers should never keep more than they can eat and always be sure to leave some for seed. COURTESY PHOTO / MATT WILLIAMS
Outdoors Writer
LAKE KURTH — It was a beautiful sight, one that any pan fisherman would truly appreciate.
Bream 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.
Dark in color and circular in shape, the “colony” of spawning beds stood out like an aquatic honeycomb in ...
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