David Dalton
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I was fishing at Christchurch Quay in the summer, having a chat with a guy I knew who was fishing for mullet from a boat. As we were speaking, I hooked a bream, and his mate in the boat said "A bream - oh poor you".
That isn't my attitude to this species at all. The river bream I catch usually fight well - sometimes the Royalty fishery ones can really put a bend in your rod. They aren't even particularly slimy, not more so than eels or tench, and they can be tricky b*****s to catch sometimes, which only makes fishing for them more interesting.
I think dislike of bream by some people has been around a long time, as Peter Stone mentions it in "Bream and Barbel", which was published in the sixties.
What do you think?
That isn't my attitude to this species at all. The river bream I catch usually fight well - sometimes the Royalty fishery ones can really put a bend in your rod. They aren't even particularly slimy, not more so than eels or tench, and they can be tricky b*****s to catch sometimes, which only makes fishing for them more interesting.
I think dislike of bream by some people has been around a long time, as Peter Stone mentions it in "Bream and Barbel", which was published in the sixties.
What do you think?