Monster bream shows with just minutes to go...

PAUL Scowen was just minutes from packing away his fishing gear when this pristine 16lb 4oz bream picked up his hair-rigged maggots. 

The 48-year-old was fishing a southern gravel pit with his son Edgar in hope of catching a big tench or bream during a 24-hour stay. Paul tells us:

“The first evening was really productive for tench and we had more than 20 to a best of 10lb 1oz. 

“The following morning was much slower but just before lunchtime, when we were due to leave, I had a drop-back on the middle rod which resulted in this massive bream.

“A mate had caught it at 16lb 8oz the previous year and it was a fish I was really keen on catching.” 

All Paul’s fish were taken over gravel bars baited heavily with a mixture of pellets, hemp and maggots.

Had Paul packed up minutes earlier he would have missed out on this awesome bream