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Nuts, bolts & bream

WIDELY CONSIDERED to be summer fish, black bream are changing their habits. While happy on the reefs and rough ground throughout the hazy lazy days, once Miss September graces the calendar, they quickly move to deeper water where the sea temperature is usually still constant.

This move can be out to deep water reefs, but, in both the English Channel and southern Irish Sea, it can be on to wrecks in water of 150 feet or more in depth. Here they congregate in huge numbers before heading away to the Algarve for some winter sun. This massing of numbers reaches its peak in October and bream can still be caught as late as mid-November. Bigger fish also, are on the cards.

Wrecking for bream is common in the English Channel. The bream won’t move far from the safety of the nuts

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