YouTube carper nets 'superb looking' bream

Keen carp angler Chris Fennell, known to many as the ‘Carpking’, thanks to his YouTube blogs, caught this chunky 12lb 2oz bream on his first session back on the bank.

He told Angling Times:

“Because I’m a carp angler I can confidently say that bream aren’t one of my favourite species, but when I netted this slab I just had to weigh it and take a picture. It was my first session back after restrictions on fishing were lifted and I was targeting a 6ft-deep margin at Aspen Lakes Fishery in Swindon.
“Carp were my primary target so I fed the spot with pellets and boilie crumb, then fished a single Hinders C-Food boilie over the top.
“After a few hours I’d caught three tench, but then I had another twitchy bite which I knew right away wasn’t what I was after either.
“When I struck I was surprised at the heavy weight on the end and my initial reaction was that it was another tench, but then this huge bream coasted across the surface into my net.
“I never normally target bream, but I have caught them to 10lb 4oz in the past while carping, so I was very happy with this personal best at 12lb 2oz. For a bream it looked superb!”

Check out Chris’s YouTube channel - Carpking71