Black Bream Rigs

[LittleFish]

I've a bot trip next week and the target species is Black Bream

What rigs do you advise for this species?

[MRG2000]

Originally Posted by LittleFish

I've a bot trip next week and the target species is Black Bream

What rigs do you advise for this species?

Grab yourself a copy of this months Sea Angler , a cracking feature in the boat section on tackle and tactics for Black Bream fishing .

[scottish_and_mental]

keep everything ligh as possible but you WILL need good strong hooks as ive seen fish over 4lb straighten a hook just by looking at it !
fish either a single hook on a flowing trace of around 5 foot and let it trot back in the tide ensuring you pay out enough line to keep it tapping on the bottom or use a two hook rig with the second hook about 18 inches behind the main hook on a cut blood loop about 6 -8 inches long ..
bait is ragworm tipped with about a 1 inch sliver of squid..
If they are thick on the ground just use squid .
size 2 hooks , 25lb clear hooklenghts and as little lead as you can get away with - even as low as 2 ounces !

[LittleFish]

Originally Posted by MRG2000

Grab yourself a copy of this months Sea Angler , a cracking feature in the boat section on tackle and tactics for Black Bream fishing .

Thanks for that I'm off to get a free read at WHSmiths

[tonybolton]

It's worth experimenting on the day if truth be told. I went out four weeks ago from Weymouth for Bream and we had a good day all round on the boat. We were all fishing as light as possible which in truth never involved less than about 6oz. most of the boat started out with a single trace about two foot long, but by the end of the day everybody was using a two hook flapper with 6 inch snoods and size two hooks, the rig was two up with the top snood about 2 or 3 foot off the bottom. as the tide moved around there were spells where most fish were taken on the top hook and then some but fewer on the bottom. Hopefully you'll have a good skipper who'll put you on the fish imho boat fishing is 90% about the skipper and 10% about the tackle.