Perseverance is the key
Ireland still has, as always, the potential to make angling dreams come true.
And no-matter what you read elsewhere, the big Bream shoals still exist, they are just a little harder to track down!
I have many Guests that stay with me, who have been coming to Ireland for the last 20 to 30yrs, and now in the supposed hard years for fishing, are getting the best weights and specimen Bream and Hybrids they have ever had.
As we all know, location is the key to success, the beauty about coarse fishing for Bream especially, is that as long as you know of a lake that has the history of huge bags of Bream, you’re half way there.
The second part of the plan is that you can artificially create your own successful location by the use of prebaiting.
Here is a story about perseverance and success for just 2 of my Guests..
There is a lake I know that is fairly shallow and Gin clear, so not the normal conditions for Bream fishing, the key is knowing how to approach these types of Loughs.
Bream are notorious for covering large expanses of water, so you need to set a trap!
By using a small boat we heavily prebaited our chosen swim with flaked Maize and sweet corn, putting 5kg into the swim per night. Returning the next day to see (due to the shallowness) whether the free offerings had been eaten.
We carried on doing this for an incredible 5 days with not a single grain being eaten, when on day 6 we were greeted with the special sight of ripped up weed and a bare gravel bottom, when looking down into the depths from our punt, (all 6ft of it).
The trap was sprung so we added a double amount of prebait, and spread it over a greater area to keep the fish foraging longer, and planned a dawn raid early the next morning.
All the hard work was done and the fish came from the first cast out, belters they were too with a 7lb average for the bream and 5lb for the Hybrids.
Both anglers managed PBs with weights over 200LB and nudging 300lb (combined 530lb)
Now this doesn’t happen everyday, but it never did!!!!
Perseverance is the key, and putting in the hard work will pay dividends’.