I often fish where there are lots of bream. Sunfish, bluegill, others. I have noticed that a lot of times I get nibbled by them when using a color, but I don't get bass hitting me. Junebug, which I know is a bass color, will often attract bream and I get nibbles, but not bass.

 

When this happens, should I change colors? Should I go green pumpkin? White? Something else? Or should is this a good sign for bass, and thus stick with the original color?

 

I've had this happen a lot, and often when it does, I don't catch bass with that color. That said, I often get skunked, especially at the local heavily pressured lake.

If I'm getting sunfish bites out in open water then I usually move to a new spot.  If the sunfish aren't afraid to leave the cover then I thinking there are no larger predator fish around,

I somewhat know where you are coming from.  On the river I find Bluegill, Green Sunfish and Rock Bass to be attracted to soft plastics laminated with a chartreuse in it. Especially soft craws. Chartreuse is a very good productive Smallie color but I moved away from using that color a lot back some time ago. The river I fish the smallies feed on bluegills, have caught many with tails in their mouths. If I find bluegill in a spot I want to smallie fish I don’t let that make me move on. Those fish I relate them to be closer to the bank. The smallies pulled away into the drop off. 

Thanks for the replies. 

 

One of the spots I have had this issue is a 2 acre private lake I fish. It's not like there aren't bass in the area, and by open water, we're talking from the shore, with moss and so forth. I'll often catch bass in the same spots after getting bream nibbling by changing color or presentation.

 

Course we're not talking huge bass, we're talking 3lb or less.

 

On the public lake, one of the spots that is a good spot is right by a culvert where  slow moving creek enters. There isn't anything for cover for bream other than a few rocks and submerged logs/sticks. It's not thick cover by any means. But I've caught plenty of bass in the immediate area that I get bream nibbles.

When I noticed a significant increase in "bream" bites I switch to a Jig-n-Craw or creature baits in colors that resembles bream. Bass love to eat sunfish. Y'all ain't never fished the Bream spawn?

If I'm not mistaken, the bream spawn was going on a month ago and is still going? HECK YES I fish it, anywhere there is bream I fish something that is bream colored and or bream beds trying to get bass. Got me some junebug flukes for the occasion.

Might try going a little deeper from where you are getting bluegill bites. Often some bass out there waiting to dash in and grab a snack, so put one in their face.

33 minutes ago, txchaser said:

Might try going a little deeper from where you are getting bluegill bites. Often some bass out there waiting to dash in and grab a snack, so put one in their face.

Yeah, I fish farther out, but I normally work my lure all the way back unless I'm confident nothing is there. I've found a few bass that have backed into the coontail moss right at shore that way, though no monster yet.