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My first Big Bream


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I have only been coarse fishing for two years now and so far My biggest catch was a 2lb Perch but yesterday I landed a 12lb 2oz Bream on 6lb mainline 3lb hooklink to a size 16 barbless hook.

I am totally delighted especially since I had no idea there were fish that size in the pond but am amazed at how easy it was to land it didnt put up a fight at all.

Are all large Bream so easy to bank?

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I have only been coarse fishing for two years now and so far My biggest catch was a 2lb Perch but yesterday I landed a 12lb 2oz Bream on 6lb mainline 3lb hooklink to a size 16 barbless hook.

I am totally delighted especially since I had no idea there were fish that size in the pond but am amazed at how easy it was to land it didnt put up a fight at all.

Are all large Bream so easy to bank?

 

Thats a big Bream by anyones standards, you done well to get it in on a 3lb bottom. Well done! That clears my pb from The River Yare by exactly 2lb's.

Bream are never going to win the best fighter accolade but a river Bream is a slightly different proposition to those from stillwaters, they've got a bit of get up and go about them. The big Bream from the Broadland tidal rivers have quite a bit of fight in them, aided and abetted though by a powerful flow.

The big Roach/Bream that you get in numbers on The Broads, go like hell.

 

Well done again, great fish!

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As has been pointed out, stillwater bream are renowned for their lack of fight. However, every now and then you get one that forgets what it is and puts up a scrap.

 

On the other hand, a bream of that size is one of the hardest fish to catch. So many congratulations!

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I believe we have witnessed the birth a committed Bream Angler for life!! Long may that grin continue...

 

Congratulations - that is a hell of a Bream, most of us will never catch a Bream that big ever!

 

I don't deliberately fish for bream but the odd one or two I catch on the Thames fight a lot harder (due to the flow of course) than their stillwater bretheren. I think, wrongly, that specimen Bream angling isn't as 'sexy' as carp or barbel (how many 'Bream World' magazines are out there?)but a double figure bream is a fish of a lifetime! I remember watching a John Wilson special once when he float fished a lake from a boat and caught the most staggerring bag of double figure bream ever - I was amazed!

 

The only thing I detest with respect to old breamus is the stink in the car from a 'breamy' landing net (Never leave your breamy net in the car overnight in the summer - when you open the door the next day you may need hospital treatment or nursing for a few hours).

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