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The bream we all know is actually called the black bream, even though it can be quite silvery with distinctive yellow anal fins. Other species of bream include the pikey bream found mostly round our tropical north, and the silver or southern bream which frequent the cooler southern waters of the continent.
The West Australian bream, although very similar to the common black bream, is in fact a different species called tarwhine. The tarwhine's habitat extends from southern Queensland right round to Western Australia. The differences between the two is that tarwhine have a larger head than bream, and when cut open for cleaning, the tarwhine has a black lining to its stomach, whereas the bream has a clean white cavity.
The colour of bream will vary according to the location. Surf bream are shiny silver with very prominent yellow anal fins. Estuary bream tend to take on a more bronze-silver colour, deepening the further up the river you go The record for bream is around the 4kg mark (9lbs) caught on the N.S.W. mid coast.
Deciding to target a particular fish species and then going out and catching it gives me a real buzz - even if it doesn't happen all that often. With bream fishing, the more you do it, the better you will understand your target, hence more fish.
Bream can be caught all year round, with the early morning and dusk usually the most productive times. So what are the secrets to catching bream consistently?
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