| Bream in general can be very frustrating fish to target | | | | see the fish following the lure, then watch as the fish |
| as a lot of the time you can see them in the water or | | | | attacks the lure and hopefully hooks itself resulting in a |
| on your boats fish finder yet they won't take a lure. | | | | thrilling fight for the angler. The end of spring can be |
| They can be caught all year round but the different | | | | great fishing as the water temperature is still quite high |
| seasons certainly affect their willingness to take lures. | | | | and the fish start to move out of the rivers and head |
| From one season to the next these fish will react | | | | for sea to start spawning. These traveling fish are |
| completely different almost as if they are another | | | | usually hungry and feeding up as they get ready to |
| species. They will feed in a completely different way in | | | | spawn. |
| summer as they do in winter. Therefore your | | | | Finding warmer water is the key here as the fish will |
| approach to your fishing must change to have any | | | | be more active in the warmer water. Hard body lures |
| hope of success in different seasons. | | | | work well in spring as flats fishing becomes popular as |
| In summer bream will be much more active in all | | | | the water in the shallows is still warm. Winter is the |
| aspects of the lives, they will spend more time in ultra | | | | hardest time of the year as the fish are very shut |
| shallow water as compared to winter when they will | | | | down for two main reasons. |
| go deep looking for warmer water. They will also be | | | | 1. Winter is spawning time and most of the mature fish |
| found from the entrance of an estuary all the way up | | | | are at sea spawning. |
| the back of rivers, inhabiting all kinds of structure along | | | | 2. The fish that are still about in the estuaries are very |
| the way. | | | | lethargic because the water temperature is way |
| Summertime is particularly popular for many anglers as | | | | down. The fishes metabolism is slowed considerably |
| summer brings warm fishing conditions and surface | | | | and they just aren't interested in feeding. |
| feeding bream. Anglers will use surface lures called | | | | It's also very cold for the angler and not very |
| poppers, they come in various forms and imitate a | | | | enjoyable. Late autumn things start to pick up again as |
| prawn or bait fish fleeing across the surface, this type | | | | the spawning fish return hungry and ready to feed. |
| of lure will regularly induce a surface strike by a hungry | | | | Fish caught at this time are noticeably thin and under |
| bream. | | | | nourished. The water temperature is also on the rise |
| This style of fishing is very enjoyable as the angler can | | | | and has anglers dusting off all their surface lures. |