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Post by bassy on Jul 21, 2006 12:27:04 GMT 1
I caught my first bream on my boat trip and they are really outstanding fish, they fight brilliantly and are so pretty,the colours on them are so tropical,lovely fish. oh and the Dorsal fin is very very spiney like i found out!!! What do you all think of these beautys?
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Post by cliffnorry on Jul 21, 2006 14:54:50 GMT 1
They have them for sale in asda today, I asked for a couple to be weighed, because they would fit in the palm of your hand, the chap must of realised that I was going to conplain. because he said that they weighed 3 to 3and a half pounds, I left him in no doute that I did not belive him and conplained to the manager anyway,
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Post by bassy on Jul 22, 2006 12:39:39 GMT 1
Does anyone know the record for a black bream is?
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dreadfish
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Post by dreadfish on Jul 22, 2006 12:50:48 GMT 1
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Post by bassy on Jul 22, 2006 12:50:52 GMT 1
Just found out, from the boat is 6lb 14oz caught in 1977 and shore is 5lb in 1994,they must of been hell of a fight!
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Post by capnjack on Jul 22, 2006 14:44:21 GMT 1
real scrappers them
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Post by andyclarke on Jul 22, 2006 19:01:54 GMT 1
not like their fresh water cousins then. they come in on their side with a fight like a carrier bag.
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Post by bassy on Jul 23, 2006 8:53:55 GMT 1
Yeah their cousins give a little bit of a tug and then rise to the surface on their side and thats it!!!
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Post by Animal on Jul 25, 2006 0:21:44 GMT 1
at present you can pull them in off the shore around the solent! yum had them for dinner tonight..
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Post by taffthebass on Jul 25, 2006 13:27:45 GMT 1
I've never caught a black bream yet but they are on my target list this year even though I only fish from shore. To gut them do you run the knife under their bellies like most fish? they seem such an odd shape, & is there a minimum size to watch out for?.
I was down at Brighton marina the other day & people were catching black bream there on rag worm on a float. I've always had a phobia about ragworms since I was a kid & I was trying to thread them onto a hook wearing an old pair of welding gloves, not easy & the fish seemed to just suck them off the hook.
I did get a nice gurnard which took a mitrelite spinner I was using to get some mackerel bait.
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Post by bassy on Jul 25, 2006 13:58:31 GMT 1
i presume you gut them the same way, the minimum size off the shore is 23cm and the boat is the same. What don't you like about ragworms? have you tried a baiting needle,it makes life sooooooo much easier and you get good presentation,you hardly have to touch the worm when using one. my mum used to chop the heads off so they wont bite her!!
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Post by taffthebass on Jul 25, 2006 14:11:06 GMT 1
Thanks for the advice on a baiting needle, I'll try one but I will still wear gloves its all those wrigglin legs I don't like.
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Post by bassy on Jul 25, 2006 14:13:25 GMT 1
i must admit i dont like the legs!!! but i think "keep wriggling and you will catch me a nice fish!!"
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Post by Animal on Jul 29, 2006 0:02:03 GMT 1
i always fillet them with a good catering fillet knife, just gut them like normal and follow the spine up from the tail. the sharp flexible fillet knife will make light work with all fish.. hence they use them in the trade.
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Post by cliffnorry on Aug 2, 2006 13:28:23 GMT 1
on that one trip, the one I put on hear, we were puting black bream back, but we did make 4 large famalies happy on the camp site as they had breem for dinner, they weighed between one and one and a half lbs, we were going to fish with two rods each, but never got the chanch to tackel up a second rod, I wished I lived near you Bassy, I would be in heaven, what a place!!!
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