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How to catch Redbreast sunfish
Redbreast sunfish feed in 48–88°F water and bite best at 65–80°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 6 waters.
5 pts · trophy at 10"Feeds 48–88°FBest 65–80°FIn season nowRiverCreek / streamSpring
About
The river bream of the Panhandle and North Florida rivers — the Suwannee, the Ochlockonee — orange-bellied and hard-fighting on a fly rod or a cane pole along the sand bars.
How to fish it
Float the river and cast a popping bug or a cricket to the eddies behind the logs and the sand bars.
What it eats
cricketswormspopping bugssmall spinners
Live bait for it
Grass shrimpTwo or three on a #6 hook under a small cork — the bream, crappie, sheepshead and mangrove snapper bait nobody sells.What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itLeader10–20 lb fluorocarbon
Hook#2–3/0
Jig head1/8–1/2 oz
Braid10–30 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereWithin the fifty-panfish aggregate — confirm at MyFWC.
The current rule →Where it is, month by month
PPeakSSpawningAArriving·AroundLLeaving
Fresh water by state