Largest bream of the season banked on homemade bait

A HAND-rolled 10mm boilie wrapped in paste has accounted for the largest reported bream of the season in the shape of this 18lb 2oz specimen.

It was a PB for its captor Tim Jackson, who baited a silty spot on a southern gravel pit with 0.5kg of crushed boilies before casting his homemade hookbait over the top. 

The 47-year-old says:

“At 6.30am I had a light tap on the rod and knew straight away it was a bream. 

“A few minutes later I was blessed with this fish, which smashes my previous best.”

Tim Jackson and his 18lb 2oz bream