Catching Bream in the Cold Weather and the Hot Summer
Day 5: How Not to Catch Bluegill Bream
Editor’s Note: Few people fish for bluegills in the coldest winter and the hottest summer months in the South – except for the late Steve Pope of Centre, Alabama, who was a fishing guide at Guntersville and Weiss lakes in north Alabama.
  Pope told a story about a client who quickly learned how not to catch deep-water bluegills.
“I gave my client a box of waxworms, but he wasn't catching any fish with them," Pope recalled. “However, every time I put a waxworm on my glitter jig, my cork instantly sank. Finally, my client caught a couple of bluegills, but not nearly the size that I'd caught. I couldn't understand why my client wasn't catching fish, but I knew something was wrong." So, Pope left his position in the front of the boat and walked back to the rear of the boat to his client.
  "Actually there's no way to put a waxworm on the hook wrong," Pope explained. "But I still wondered why this man wasn't catching fish." As Pope watched, his fisherman reached in the bait tub, picked out a wood chip, put it on his hook and cast it out. "I couldn't believe it," Pope stated. "The fellow was fishing with wood chips and hadn't seen the white waxworms among the white wood chips. But he still caught two bluegills on the wood chips. When I finally showed him what a waxworm looked like, he started catching just as many big bluegills as I was catching."
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