Showing fish gives the game away for big bream

A glimpse of big bream rolling at dusk lead to the opportunistic capture of this impressive 17lb 4oz best for Ben Emptage on a trip to the Girton Fishing Complex, Lincs.

The fish beat his PB by 4lb, but Ben didn’t realise quite how big it was until he went to lift it out of the margins for weighing.

“When it went into the net I thought, ‘that’s a proper one’, and when I lifted it out, I realised I’d caught something special” he says.

“I’ve seen and caught a number of large bream but this one eclipsed anything I’d ever seen on the bank.”

Ben fished 30 yards out, baiting with pellets, corn and boilies. 

Ben Emptage and his new pb 17lb 4oz bream