HOW-TO: Catch MORE Bream On Fly Part 2 - Targeting BIG Bluenose Bream!

[@StarloGetsReel]

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[@feartheduck6664]

Fun to watch. Switch and spey rods are great fun. Casting with them is an artform and beautiful to watch. I have caught barramundi and GT on 12 weight outfits. Having a fly reel with a good drag is essential. Larger than normal fly fishing reel handles are also useful.

[@StarloGetsReel]

So true!

[@theanarchistangler]

Brilliant stuff, enjoyed it very much. Now I can set the challenge for my comrade - Peter, Black Bream on fly. Now, your next challenge should be DRUMMER ON FLY, and one of the big beasties. Please keep making these personalized videos. Genuinely love them. cheers Mark.

[@StarloGetsReel]

I hear ya! It's on the list!

[@rickymartinfishing3391]

Brilliant mate, best bream on fly footage i have seen.

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks so much!

[@markhoffman9655]

As a Kiwi swoffer I enjoy your bream fly fishing because I think there are similarities with our local snapper when they are up in an estuary environment. Interested in the rod you using in this video as seems to be quite a long one, almost a two handed design, which would not necessarily be very convenient in a boat.

[@StarloGetsReel]

Hi Mark. Yes, many similarities between bream and snapper in estuarine environments. I use a couple of "Switch" rods: an 11 foot 5-weight and a 12 foot 6-weight. I cast them single-handed and like them when working with long leaders. No real issue in the boat until it comes to netting a fish on your own. :) Longer handled landing net would help.

[@matthomas6575]

Would love to see a vid on flatties on fly

[@StarloGetsReel]

Here's a couple: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZvSdoWpeZWLjNk and kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHfEgp-Prdh0aM0

[@stevelum8660]

Interesting use of a DH/switch rod for bream on fly. In Scotland on the lochs they traditionally used long single handers (11' or more) in the 6/7 weight single hander scale for roll casting short lines or dibbling the fly to atlantic salmon. It has a shorter fighting butt than a switch rod, which may be a nicer alternative, and also a couple of ounces lighter. I recently had a Scottish salmon guide I know who's a keen amateur builder, make me up a "Hebridean loch salmon" rod, off of a Meiser troutspey blank, 11' long, 3-4 DH scale, about a 7 SH, and the final weight was just over 4oz. I had a seat with removeable FB installed, so it could have been a smidgen lighter if I went for a fixed one. It may be a great rod for this sort of work! I'll have to take it down on my next trip downunder! There's a species similar to Oz bream here called "Dorada" in Spain (Gilt head bream, Sparus aurata) with slightly different head features (rounder and more convex), I wonder if they're like Oz bream and take flies/lures? Edit: some googling found some posts on uk swf forums which said some giltheads caught targeting other species like euro seabass. However oz black/yellowfin bream were the same status probably 30 years ago, and look at them now, comps and everything, lures, plastics, fly. I'll definitely give it a go, especially as I regularly go to Spain where the inlaws are!

[@StarloGetsReel]

Fascinating feedback, Steve! Thanks for sharing. With warming waters you'll probably see more gilthead, too.

[@dpfishn]

Great vid Steve. Hope to put some of your tips to good use the next few weeks.

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks! And good luck!

[@glenhepplewhite8122]

the godfather has did it again. awesome work well done mate!

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks!

[@deanwatt]

Fantastic work old boy! Great video.

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks mate!

[@marklocke5678]

Looks like hard work Starlo! That fish is worth at least a six pack mate!

[@StarloGetsReel]

Agreed!

[@fishingwiththeperrys452]

keep up the good videos mate i loved it!!

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks!

[@fcy9722]

hi sterlo just saying very respectively that i have been really lazy and fished with strait 25 pound briad an landed a 32 cm bream idk if it couldnt see the braid or if it was that i was quite heavy on berly but it did the trick

[@fcy9722]

also u did deserve that beer

[@StarloGetsReel]

Hey, it can happen, for sure! But over the long run, finesse pays dividends.

[@StarloGetsReel]

I enjoyed it! :)

[@redtobertshateshandles]

I should watch and learn something.

[@aussieboyfisher]

mate love your work love my flyfishing as well keep it up

[@StarloGetsReel]

Thanks mate!

[@LunaRendezvous]

might go wet a line tomorrow, a 40cm bream or snapper would be nice.

[@StarloGetsReel]

Good luck! Hope you smack 'em.

[@christophercook723]

It's Bream not Brim😢

[@StarloGetsReel]

I’m assuming you mean “breem”, as pronounced in the UK? Not in Australia or the US, though, where it is applied to completely different species anyway. You say tomato, I say… anyway, you get the idea. 😉

[@christophercook723]

@@StarloGetsReelyes there is English in England and then there is attempted failed English in the USA and alas Australia is descending in copying Yankee phonetic speak. It has a Lab or party and the plural of sign is signs not signage . How you can get Brim ( A Hat edge) out of Bream is hard for even educated people to understand. In Western Australia its pronounced correctly. Basic is pronounced Bay sic but in the Eastern States they , for incomprehensible reasons, say bAssic. In Western Austraia where l lived for 37 years its pronounced correctly.

[@StarloGetsReel]

@@christophercook723 good luck with ever getting an Aussie to say “breem”. 🤣

[@christophercook723]

@@StarloGetsReel ln Western Australia, educated people promounce it properly.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

​@@StarloGetsReelPoms. 😂