hey guys when you here a buddy say i caught fish on a bream colored jig.what color is he talking about?

What is bream colored baits? (jigs,soft plastic,spinner baits)

Colors that match the local sunfish and blue gill.

greens, chartreuse, orange, browns and blue typically. 

take a look at the charts on siebert outdoors, mike has a bream coloured jig mainly green pumpkin with some orange and chartreuse on the belly

Strike King's bream

 

 

My new favorite color from LC.

 

Allen

Swimjig I made.

 

Allen

What is a bream? Local name for green sunfish, every variety of blue gill and pumpkin seed, including red ear sunfish, in some location includes crappie and warmouth.

Tom

 

I throw a lot of bluegill colored baits.  Typically they have either a gold or green base color then have orange, little blue, chartreuse, and/or purple

This is the color I call bream.

I'm usually not too worried about color, but in really clear water, matching the sunnies (and crawfish) is the exception. As mentioned by others, there is a lot of variation on the colors of the different types, not only that, but depending on the time of year and age/size of the gills, they can be anything from a washed out drab, to insanely bright. A little blue/purple on top, orange on the bottom, and some green scale pattern in the middle works well for me.

One of my biggest pet peeves growing up was people saying "Brimm" instead of BR-EAM.

So, you pronounce it "breem" and not "brim". Never heard that before. If you come down south  don't say it that way or people will look at you funny. 

For color, green pumpkin is a pretty good bream imitation. 

Theres a lot of bream patterns . Here s a little bream spinnerbait that I like to use .

 

 

7 minutes ago, bagofdonuts said:

So, you pronounce it "breem" and not "brim". Never heard that before. If you come down south  don't say it that way or people will look at you funny. 

For color, green pumpkin is a pretty good bream imitation. 

It's a regional thing, both are the wrong usage of the word. A brim is the edge of a hat, a bream is a kind of fish, but not the ones we're thinking of. People around here call any kind of bluegill/sunfish a "perch", drives me crazy. Down south you don't know if someone is talking about a freshwater panfish, or a saltwater fish when they're catching "specks". White perch gets used for actual white perch, and crappie. Us fishermen are a confusing (or confused), bunch. 

Around here sauger are called jack salmon , flatheads are johnny cats , blue cats are white fultons , drum are white perch , white bass are stripers , green sunfish are rock bass 

Meanwhile, the black "basses" are all technically sunfish, while white perch are temperate basses.

 

When I moved to Michigan, it took me a while to learn what a "dogfish" was...I was vaguely familiar with the name "bowfin", but didn't know much about them because I had never lived around them. Then I discovered it was the same thing as a "mudfish" and a "shoepick", which I had each heard somewhere before, but never made the connection.

3 hours ago, bagofdonuts said:

So, you pronounce it "breem" and not "brim". Never heard that before. If you come down south  don't say it that way or people will look at you funny. 

For color, green pumpkin is a pretty good bream imitation. 

 

You've never heard someone pronounce bream, "bream"? 

22 minutes ago, thebillsman said:

 

You've never heard someone pronounce bream, "bream"? 

 

No, but when I was a kid all "perch" were called bluegill. 

Or was the other way around?

 

thank you everyone! I didn't realize there were so many different patterns it could be.here in north Louisiana i thought it meant a fire tiger color.the pictures really helped ! we consider a Bream a Bluegill,redear, goggle eye,sun fish.

 

Up this way they're called bluegill or sunfish. It all depends on where you live.

 

Anyone one ever heard of a sacalait (pronounced “sac-a-lait”)?

3 hours ago, jtharris3 said:

Anyone one ever heard of a sacalait (pronounced “sac-a-lait”)?

Yes, that's what one of my fishing buddies calls crappie.