After signing off the river season in style with the biggest brace of chub in history, Alan Stagg started his spring stillwater campaign in the same scintillating fashion this week by catching the biggest bream of the year so far. This scale-perfect 18lb 4oz fish was taken on an overnight… Read more
Category: Bream
Lee McManus 16lb 14oz Bream
Whilst southern stillwaters generally produce the biggest bream, Leicester angler Lee McManus proved that specimens can be caught further north with this 16lb 14oz slab from a midlands gravel pit. Lee has great form with the species, reporting huge bream near enough every season. This fish was caught over a… Read more
Tim Jackson 17lb 8oz Bream
Having landed two good bream of 12lb and 14lb throughout the week, Dorset angler Tim Jackson topped the lot with this 17lb 8oz slab from a southern pit he frequents. Targeting a clear, silty patch amongst a weedy area 60 yards out, Tim opted for his trusty homemade fishmeal boilies,… Read more
Adrian Eves 17lb 4oz Bream
Adrian Eves had been fishing a southern lake during the spring and early summer, but the lake had been particularly difficult with very few bream being caught. He returned back in early October with the hope that the bream would feed but unfortunately for him, they didn’t! After several difficult… Read more
Matt Fernandez 16lb 12oz Bream
A ‘leviathan’ in the dark! Arriving at a big pit in his home county of Hampshire, Matt Fernandez, spotted several bream rolling on the back of the wind. With nobody fishing that area, he quickly barrowed his kit round and found a spot big enough to fish two rods on…. Read more
Adrian Eves 17lb 15oz Bream
Hampshire angler Adrian Eves capitalised on a sudden and dramatic drop in air pressure to bank a superb female bream weighing 17lb 15oz. Adrian had been struggling for several weeks on the southern pit he’s been targeting, but that all changed when a low-pressure southerly swept in, sending the barometer… Read more