Two Big Bream on a Mid-Week Session

Lined up for a Mid-week Session for Big Bream

A night of liners and then the bream

These continued throughout the morning and it wasn’t long before I decided to get in the boat and get out and have a good look at where I had positioned the markers.

I had them placed in some slightly deeper water to the sides of gravel bars; four rods spread out over around 30 yards or so.

The two middle rods, which seemed to be more ‘liner’ productive, had me nosing around those markers with a glass bucket, long pole and sounder.

13lb 4oz male bream for Wol

Drifting slowing back towards the bank the sounder showed a slow gradual rise from 9 to 7 feet, seven feet for a couple of yards then back down into nine.

Hmmm, was I just missing out on fish by a matter of feet? Were they on this bar knocking my lines as they made their way along it?

Over with the pole and its crunch, crunch: a smallish gravel bar running parallel with the bank could be felt.

Then the biggest of the session at 14lb 2oz

Over the side of the boat I chucked out a hand-lined treble hook with a little weight and check out the weed. Not good, a fair amount of weed on it.

A reposition of the middle rod’s marker just at the back of the bar and I head back to the bank to collect a small extendable garden rake I had bought along in case of such events.

An hour or so clearing as much as I could whilst out in the boat and a quick throw around with the treble and it’s now clean as a whistle – lovely.

The results of this were two nice bream in the shape of a 13lb 14oz male and a slightly bigger female of 14lb 2oz and no liners.

A satisfying result at the beginning of this year’s bream campaign.