Former Olympic decathlete Dean Macey has showed no signs of slowing in his current form, landing this 17lb 2oz bream. It came a short while after he landed a brace of 16lb 8oz slabs, when he returned to the same venue for a 24-hour session. With the wind pushing down… Read more

Knowing that the bream numbers were dwindling on his local Leicestershire gravel pit, Craig Woolhouse set about targeting them, knowing that those remaining would reach impressive weights. His theory was proven true when he slipped the net under this fish of 16lb 10oz on a 24-hour session. It fell to… Read more

In a hectic 24-hour session, Dean Macey made the most of a swim packed with fish and landed two bream of 16lb 8oz, plus one of 12lb 8oz. The former decathlete had a small window of opportunity and headed to a stillwater where he fished two spots: one long, for… Read more

A few years ago, Matt Jackson used to fish a southern pit for bream, where he’d regularly catch fish around the double-figure mark. Recently, he was told that.. although there weren’t many left, those still hanging around were big. So Matt decided to give the water another go and, on… Read more

There has been loads of big bream reported this spring, with the vast majority falling to helicopter rigs. You can’t deny the effectiveness of these set-ups, but Matthew Clayton is a massive fan of fishing a Method feeder when possible and it this mammoth 18lb 14oz bream shows exactly why!… Read more

Although he’d caught plenty of big bream over his years, a fish over 18lb had eluded Zenon Bojko until a recent session when he slipped the net under this huge 18lb 3oz fish. Targeting a gravel pit near his home where he’d had good fish in the past. Zeno fished… Read more