A series of downpours can wreck a well-honed plan overnight, ruining what was a perfect-looking river and leading to a likely blank!
However, provided the rain isn’t freezing cold, it can also present a great opportunity...if there are bream about!
Here's what you need to do to catch bream on a high and coloured river...
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Add some fishmeal
I’ll mix up a ‘normal’ bream blend of sweet groundbaits, adding a good helping of Mainline Match Sweet Marine. This is fed via a cage feeder at regular intervals.
Pile the particles in
I cram in casters, chopped worm and dead maggots with the groundbait. Big bream have big appetites and I want to keep them grubbing around in the swim for a long time - increasing my chances of a bite!
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Take some redworms
For a hookbait, I swear by two large redworms tipped with a dead red maggot. A bream can pick these out very quickly even amongst all the free offerings in the groundbait.
Go for a cage feeder
Cage feeders don’t flex in running water and give false indications on the tip. A wire cage of around 30g is ample.
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Use a long hooklength
A hooklength 2ft 6ins-3ft will help to put the bait closer to the bigger bream holding up at the back in the swim. Don't go too light with the breaking strains for these river fish as you risk getting broke.
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Hit every bite
The key is to make sure that the fish is on, and that means not striking too early. Always let the bite develop fully, you will likely get plenty of liners or knocks before the tip goes around properly. Get your feeding right and they won't be too shy about it.
FIND THE BEST VENUE NEAR YOU FOR RIVER BREAM FISHING AND TRY THESE TIPS NOW.
So there we go, six tips for river bream fishing. Don't worry next time you find your river with a bit of colour in it, find the slacks, feed them up and get breaming!
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