Bleak

[Paul Matthews]

Make superb Perch baits !
I'm afraid that Bleak are probably the only species of silverfish that I don't enjoy catching ! Very fragile fish and a pain in the proverbial when Dace fishing ! B Avon has plenty of the little sods !

 

[David Hall]

a real pain when fishing paste as well, like little paste piranhas...lol

 

[Dave Binns]

i had this beast from the calder this season

its the only one i have ever had from there too! best weight i could get in a plastic bag was 3.5oz

 

[Clive Kenyon]

Haven't caught a bleak since I was a kid and today I've just found a seam of them in my local river.

Looks like the 5 metre pole, banded chicken pellets and empty ice cream tub will be pressed into use for some zander dead baits next week.

 

[Colin Bridger]

Ray Mumford won the Glading Masters, back in the 70's with, I think, 16lb of them. That was from the Nene if memory serves me right. We used to pull a section of mono over a finger nail to make it coil about 3ft above the hook, and grease the coil and this was used as a float.