Heavy baiting key to near 30lb bream brace

A HEAVY baiting campaign on a southern gravel pit has led to the capture of a big bream brace weighing just 8oz shy of 30lb.

The catch was recorded by landscape gardener Craig Hall, who used a Spomb to introduce 3.5kg of crumbed Krill boilies, hemp, corn, pellet, chopped worm and worm extract to a silty spot around 50 yards from the bank.

As darkness fell, Craig’s swim came alive and he had two bites within a 10-minute window.

The 30-year-old said:

“Just moments after I slipped the net under the smaller one my other rod rattled off. This one felt a little heavier, so I erred on the side of caution and played it slowly to the net, where I scooped it up first time to join the other.

“The first one went a healthy 13lb 8oz, but I was made up with the second – a new PB at 16lb.”

Both bream fell to trimmed-down bloodworm wafters fished on helicopter rigs. 

Craig Hall’s brace of 16lb and 13lb 8oz bream