Des Taylor’s September Angling Tips

Time to think about big Bream

Most of my big Bream have come in darkness or early morning rarely have they come in the middle of the day. My favourite hook bait if allowed is plastic corn or maize over a bed of dark groundbait made from 70% brown crumb added to a couple of bags of Sensas Bream and mixed in a couple of pints of boiled wheat , I remember Bob Nudd saying years ago to me that Bream love brown crumb and never a truer word was said in angling.

I use a lot of wheat in my Bream fishing which is very cheap to buy in bulk and easy to prepare. Simply put your wheat in a freezer box, just about cover it with boiling water, put the box top on and leave overnight. In the morning the wheat is soft and cooked to perfection.

After I have spodded out probably 5 kilo of mix out about 2 hours before dark and I then place my hook baits over the top of this loose feed. I don’t use a feeder topping up with a spod as the session goes on depending on bites or numbers of fish caught.

My rig is a fixed carp rig and consists of hair rigged plastic corn, one piece of sinking corn and on the top of that a piece of floating corn which when fished with a size 8 hook I like the presentation to be the hook lying flat on the bed of the lake and the corn popping up above it and I like it balanced so that no shot or putty is used to present this. This can only be achieve by a soft braid hair, nylon is too stiff. The bite is usually a slow lift to the top and even on a big bream rarely will the baitrunner scream or sometimes the line will go completely slack, wind down and lift up your Bream is on.

My final tip would be a lot of big Bream come from big carp waters and the best tips actually come from the carp anglers themselves for they will actually tell you the areas they don’t fish because the bream get caught there or tell you the baits not to use because they catch or attract too many Bream. All you do then is fish that Bream area on that Bream bait and reel the Bream in.

I remember fishing a lake in Cambridgeshire a few years ago now and the carp anglers said make sure you don’t put any pellet in the swim or you will be overrun with Bream so the first night I filled the swim in with pellet and over the next two nights had double figured bream to 16lb plus, proving my point.

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