"I finally beat my bream best" - Dave Jones

“My personal-best bream stood at 14lb 8oz for years, so I planned a 24-hour session on a Leicestershire stillwater to try and better it. 

“After settling into a swim with a deep 12ft-14ft marginal shelf, I baited it with 4mm and 8mm halibut pellets alongside a handful of corn. A few minutes earlier I’d spotted a shoal of big bream nearby so I felt confident. Before dark I cast a blowback rig with a Cell wafter over the top and waited. 

“At 3.30am I was woken by a screaming run and I thought I’d hooked a carp, but my strike was met with a wallowing resistance, so I knew it was a bream. At 15lb 3oz, I’d finally got what I was after.”

Dave Jones with his new personal best bream of 15lb 3oz