Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)
Senior Member
I went fishing to a local pool yesterday and caught a load of 4lb-ish bream on the float about one rod length out in five foot of water.
Nothing unusual there...
BUT four out of five hooked fish screamed off like carp before leaping like trout up to four foot out of the water!!!?!
I have never seen anything like it!
These airborne fish were an equal mixture of male and female (you could tell by the tubercles). Even the few that didn't fly fought like no bream I've ever hooked.
What has got into this turbo-charged bream? Anything to do with spawning time?
Has anyone else experienced flying slabs?
Why don't they do this all the time?
Nothing unusual there...
BUT four out of five hooked fish screamed off like carp before leaping like trout up to four foot out of the water!!!?!
I have never seen anything like it!
These airborne fish were an equal mixture of male and female (you could tell by the tubercles). Even the few that didn't fly fought like no bream I've ever hooked.
What has got into this turbo-charged bream? Anything to do with spawning time?
Has anyone else experienced flying slabs?
Why don't they do this all the time?
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