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Black Bream

Sport Factor: Medium sport valueMedium sport value   Table Quality: Medium eating valueMedium eating value
Scientific NameAcanthopagrus butcheri
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Common Namessouthern black bream, southern bream
HabitatFresh & Salt Water
Size & Weight450g - 4kgs and up to half a metre in length
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 The Black Bream
Found in southern waters from the lower coast of WA to southern NSW. Generally an estuarine species where it feeds on marine worms and shellfish. Colour ranges from dull gold to silvery olive brown.

 Catching a Black Bream
Bream usually feed together in small schools in depths of approx 2 to 6m. Using a light rig with a ball running sinker should be suffice. Look for bream in snags or lit up areas at night.

Sport Value

Bream exhibit moderate sport on light lines. May behave erratically when hooked, usually dashing and darting about in short bursts

Tackle

Use 2 - 6kgs on the main line. Light rig and No. 4 to 1/0 hook. No. 4 to 8 longshank hooks with worms or prawns work well too

Bait

Worms (garden or sand variety), shrimp, prawn, chicken, bass yabbies (nippers), mussel

 Eating a Black Bream
Sweet mild and distinctive taste. White flesh, low oil and moist with medium fillets. Bream from estuaries may have a coarser flavour and for optimum taste - needs to be bled and gutted soon after capture.
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