Common bream

How to catch it

Bream move in shoals, and generous, regular feeding is what holds them in your swim. On big venues a window or bullet feeder with the weight at its base (up to around 60 g) casts better into the wind; open with about six feederfuls, then feed more if bites come quickly and less if the fish are hard to catch. You rarely need to cast a long way: find the deepest area, often only 30–40 metres out. Start with a hooklength of about 45 cm, shorten it below 30 cm if you get bites on the drop, and lengthen it up to 90 cm if knocks don't develop. Try a pair of worms, four dead red maggots, corn or pellet on the hook.

Source: Angling Times · Angling Times · Inland Fisheries Ireland

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