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at earliest, when excursionists are leaving, or have 

 nearly all left. At that time of year, I found little 

 or no annoyance of any sort on Ormesby Broad, 

 and occasionally made very good bags of bream. 

 Like other places, it was a question of not only 

 finding a shoal but finding the fish on the feed, or 

 something they would take. The fishing may 

 have altered of late years, but my two best takes 

 of bream were at Ormesby Broad. Norfolk air 

 is wonderfully keen and bracing ; I know of no 

 more healthful resort than Norfolk and its Broads, 

 but they are to be avoided earlier than September, 

 that one may miss the crowds of excursionists. 



In playing bream, it will be noticed that they 

 fight well for a few heavy plunges, especially _. . 

 in rivers ; only get your fish on the surface and 

 of the water and give him a good mouthful ^'"'''"S 

 of air, and he will soon collapse. Bream are not 

 tender-mouthed, and the hook-hold rarely gives 

 unless the fish has been struck too quickly, in 

 which case he is not properly hooked. My 

 experience is that large bream take more time 

 over the bait than small ones, though they will 

 sometimes drag the float down boldly without the 

 preliminary quiver being noticed. Before I got 

 into the knack of it, I lost many fish through 

 striking too quickly ; while, if light tackle and 

 light thin floats be used and time allowed, hardly 

 a fish will be missed. A good big landing-net 

 should be taken when bream-fishing, the fish are so 

 deep that a net with a small hoop is useless. Do 

 not give up fishing if you have no sport for some 

 little time ; being such wandering fish, the shoal 

 may have left your immediate neighbourhood ; it 

 may return at any moment, and the last hour or 



