Red sea bream
Pagellus bogaraveo · Bass and bream
Also called blackspot bream
A shoaling bream that moves north in summer from warmer waters. Young fish come into shallows, while adults stay mostly in deep water, often around wrecks and mixed hard ground.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
- Season
- Jun–Aug[1]
- Found over
- mixed hard ground, wrecks, deep water[1]
- Baits
- razor fish, cockles, mussels, fish strip[1]
It moves north from warmer waters in summer.[1]
Sources
These notes are a draft: we gathered them from the sources above and are still checking them. We don't work out best times for this fish yet. The size rules come from the same checked byelaws as every other fish.