went fishing down my local spot at about 6pm, started throwing out little pieces of prawns and rigged up my rod. had a few runs but no fish untill bang got something that didnt feel like a bream..was a slimey cobbler.back he went and rod back into the water.

after having a few more runs finally managed a nice 28cm bream, he had me on my feet as he dived in and out towards the snags. 2 minutes later had an ever slight nibble and i was thinking dam the blowies are here then the rod bent and i let him take some line and zzzzz this bream went off his trolley..did a 10 metre run out deep(think he was lost for a second:P) then back up the river to a deadly snag, got him out of that one then zzzzz back out again, got him to the bank and yep another run i just could not stop this fish on 4lb leader, this went on for a good 3 minutes. i knew he was a beuty so dragged him along the bank to a little creak and got down and was able to lift him by his belly..i knew staight away this had beaten my previous 38cm..tape measure was out and he came in at 41cm..he was a fat thing too, 6cm wide aross the belly.

crappy picture was taken on my iphone and he was off to fight another day:)the feeling of releasing these beautiful, slow growing fish just makes my day:) good session with catching 7 bream and 2 big cobbler and all released:)

happy fishing, Drew :D