Berley Cage Bream by Dave Magner

While I'm a self-confessed lure and flyfishing nut, there are times when I do a fair bit of baitfishing. We might not use bait as our first choice very often these days, but it doesn't mean that we don't take things seriously when we do. After all, the purpose of using bait is to catch fish, so you might as well put the effort in to ensure that you do.

In the estuary, our main baitfishing target is the humble bream. As top class scavengers and opportunistic feeders, bream respond strongly to a well presented bait and are usually attracted to some well placed berley. As luck might have it, our most successful method of targeting bream has been a combination of these two ideas. But rather than use them independently, we actually combine the berley and bait in one package...