Like most fishermen, the first fish I caught was a bream – from Georgia’s Lake Sinclair at a family picnic in 1959. The bream I caught was a bluegill, but depending on where you grew up, your first ...

Nearly everyone that loves to fish likely started their fishing career by catching bream. This initiation rite is not everyone’s story, but the vast majority of every anglers first fish was a bream.

Bream often get a bad reputation as nuisance fish, especially among carp anglers, but speak to seasoned match or pleasure anglers, and you'll hear a different story. Big bream, often called "bin lids" ...