Bream Fishing Brighton

With an addiction for their hard fighting qualities especially on light tackle, many anglers specialise in bream fishing. The other side to bream, at least in some of the English south coast, is the dogged reliability of a few inshore bream when conditions have proved rougher than forecast, or when other target species have failed to show.

Easily identified by its oval shape, the black sea bream is a silvery, scaly, metallic fish that is often tinged bluish with vertical banded lines across the back when fresh from the sea. they have a full length dorsal fin with spines, gill plates with a razor sharp edge and jaws with 4-6 rows of sharp teeth.

Black bream, like all British sea breams, are related to the many breams that frequent the Mediterranean. It is fair to say then that they are a warm water species. The thinking used to be that during the winter months, when the water is much colder, black bream migrated to warmer water. The truth however is that the fish push offshore into deep water where temperatures remain more consistent and tolerable.
Bream turn up in the huge shoals in spring, and it generally goes that the intensity of the fishing increases with the water temperature as summer arrives. As autumn hits and temperatures plummet, inshore fishing for black bream winds right down as the fish make off for the deeper water.

During April each year the bream hit our coast after they return from their deep-water area. This makes them not only accessible to the charter angler, but indeed anybody who owns a small boat. Some of the best and most consistent bream fishing does occur in shallow to moderate depths within sight of land, but bream are also found out of sight of land on deep water wrecks and reefs.