28 May 2023

Estuary Gilthead

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar | 0

Paul Chamberlain enjoyed an evening fishing session with his son Ethan and caught his first gilthead bream scaling 3lb from the Taw estuary .Paul thought the evening was over before it started as first cast he realised that the spool end cap on his Abu 6500 was missing but Paul persevered and two hours into the flood his Century ultralight hooped right over and after a short but spirited battle and wading out to my waist it was landed.Nice to know they are established in our river system and not just in Cornwall.

28 Jul 2022

Golden Bars

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar | 0

Ian Laird and his thirteen year old son Ollie have been enjoying some superb gilt head bream sport in local estuaries. Their best so far this stunning gilt head of 4lb 1oz.

6 Jul 2021

Summer gilts

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar | 0

In recent seasons gilthead bream have become a regular catch for North Devon anglers with specimens landed on a regular basis throughout the summer months. Combe Martin SAC member Jamie Steward has landed several of these hard fighting sea bream from local North Devon marks the best scaling 3lb 1oz.

15 Jul 2020

Superb Estuary sport

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar | 0

Paul Hutchings enjoyed a great days sport with Andrew McKenna fishing the estuary on their rib which produced 7 species including smoothound to 12 lb gilt head and black bream to 2.5lb , dogfish, codling and a bass 3lb.

27 Jul 2019

Gilt Head Bream

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar | 0

David Jenkins fished mark in the Lower Taw & Torridge estuary to tempt this gilt head bream of 2lb.

Dave followed up success with another gilt head of 1lb 12oz

17 Jul 2019

Club Record Gilthead bream

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Sea Angling, Sidebar, Uncategorised | 0

Combe Martin SAC member Robin Bond fished a mark in the lower Taw estuary and landed a new club record gilt head bream scaling 5lb. These hard fighting fish are being caught on a far more regular basis in recent seasons a possible result of climate change? During the eighties these fish were tempted from South Devon marks and seemed to begin to populate Cornish marks as the seasons progressed. They are now caught a across the South West, South Wales and from Southern Ireland and beyond.

Gilt head bream