[Thames bream 2.8.21]

They'll take much bigger pellets than that on the Avon here, 21mm Halibut pellets, or large chunks of luncheon meat.

When I  fished the  R.Lea, we identified particular times for Bream feeding spells on winter afternoons. I wasn't much into Bream but used to have little mini-matches with a mate for a couple of hours during those spells. He usually fished maggots and had to watch his spring tip like a hawk for bites, (missing many of them), I used large lumps of anchored crust and they mostly tried to pull the rod in.