Check out this bream...

[onionpants]

Bought a Nipper Kipper food smoker today. I keep catching eels and feeding them to my dog, but someone told me that eels are excellent smoked. So I went to my favorite spot, Robina Lakes, targeting eels for once, because I wanted to smoke one. As you would expect, when I'm actually trying to catch eels, I don't catch any.

I caught a nice bream though, pic attached. I catch the odd bream in Robina Lakes, and they are always big. This is the 4th bream I have caught in Robina Lakes, and they are the 4 biggest bream I have ever caught. Weird. Since moving to Australia 3 years ago I have caught hundreds of bream, but the 4 bream I have caught in Robina Lakes are bigger than any of the hundreds I have caught anywhere else.

I guess I will find out how smoked bream tastes.

[MyEscape]

Actually I don't think I'd smoke Bream. From my experience the best fish to smoke are those with an oily flesh, like travelly, mullet, and mackeral.

Probably just my opinion, but I think the fish with nice white flesh is better off cooked in breadcrumbs etc.

But I tell you, the kippering process gives some fish some real taste, or chicken for that matter.

Best of luck with it.

Steve

[Jeremy]

there is no way of knowing how big the bream in that photo is due to the way it is being held out towards the camera. How long was it?

Jeremy

[TheSaint]

there is no way of knowing how big the bream in that photo is due to the way it is being held out towards the camera. How long was it?

Jeremy

Yeah what was the size to the fork??

[The_Bulge]

Is that Wilson from Home Improvement holding the fish.

[Slider]

Very average I'm afraid.

[Tinn]

Thats nothing exciting. I catch bream that size all the time. Anything over 40cm and up is exciting and you won't catch them every day. How big was it mate?

[onionpants]

It is 35 cm. Maybe not that exciting, but it's among the 5 biggest I've caught. I usually catch small ones.

[Fishin_Dan]

but it's among the 5 biggest I've caught.

Then congratulations mate! Don't worry about the others... It may not be the biggest bream out there, but if it's big to you, then who cares! Congrats again, and hope your next few are bigger again!

[land_based]

Well said Dan and nice bream onionpants well done!

[Tinn]

If that is your biggest well done mate now you gotta chase those bigger ones

[jackash]

Good on ya mate.... I wouldn't be complaining with a 35cm bream any day. There are bigger ones out there but that definitely doesnt make 35 cm small. Top stuff.
Cheers
Jackash

[mulisha]

Thats nothing exciting. I catch bream that size all the time. Anything over 40cm and up is exciting and you won't catch them every day. How big was it mate?

but at least he is having a go!!

[manchild]

Thats nothing exciting. I catch bream that size all the time. Anything over 40cm and up is exciting and you won't catch them every day. How big was it mate?

Mate try 2kg lines and a whippy light breamrod ,i bet ya gonna lose it .Its the light tacle that makes bream fishing exiting .there ya go -my 2c.Congrat Onionpants , nice fish any day
cheers
George

[StevenM]

Op

Nice fish mate, I was looking at your hand spacing and was going to guess 38.

Nice work buddy

Cheers

Steven