Red Seabream

[Vagabond]

In the summers of the 1960s you could hire a rowboat on Eastbourne beach, row about a half-mile offshore to a mark called "The Bushes", drop a three-hook paternoster baited with lug down, and catch red seabream at three bites a chuck. You can't do that now I haven't caught a red seabream for some years now.

 

Just recently I came across a naturalists' website that was telling everyone that "Red seabream is the commonest member of its family in UK waters". It seems pretty likely that this information comes from a now outdated book on British fish.

 

My questions are

1. When, and roughly where, did you last catch a red seabream?

2. Is anyone catching them now, and how often?

 

I fear the answers will be on very small postcards.......

[Worms]

I fear the answers will be on very small postcards.......

Tinier than that I'm afraid...I'm yet to catch one.

 

It would appear that they're still about across the water! http://www.fishandfunbrittany.com/seabreamfishing.html

Edited September 6, 2010 by Worms

[Vagabond]

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It would appear that they're still about across the water!

 

Yeh, not that far away in global terms - with things like trigger fish turning up further north, its strange that this species seems to on the retreat.

 

Plenty of black bream about in the Channel, but no reds.