Saddled seabream
Oblada melanurus
How to catch it
METHODS
Float fishing Trolling Bottom fishing
NATURAL BAITS
Bread Shrimp Sardine Chicken breast Mussel Sweetcorn
LURES
Minnow (hard bait) Sabiki feathers
BEST TIMES
Dawn Dusk Night
Saddled bream move in shoals and are very shy and sharp-eyed, so fine line is the golden rule: use a 0.12–0.16 mm fluorocarbon hooklength and little or no lead. First throw bread within hand-throwing range (stale bread mashed in seawater, perhaps with some crushed sardine); after about 15 minutes, once the shoal has gathered, fish bread flake or crust, peeled shrimp or salted, firmed-up chicken breast under a float. Just before dawn and the first hours after sunset are the most productive times; breakwaters, harbour mouths and rocky points are classic marks. From a boat, small bright 3–5 cm minnows or white-and-red feathers can be trolled slowly at about 1.5–2 knots.
Source: Av Rehberi · Balıkavı.net Forum · FishBase
Regulations
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