Steve Souter reveals the bream fishing out of Littlehampton is very much alive and well...

Back in the day, the port of Littlehampton was widely regarded as the very seat of English bream fishing. The 60s and 70s were unmistakably boom decades when famous marks like Waldrens, Kingmere, Black Ledge, East Ditch and West Ditch, were so synonymous with black bream that it was difficult not to mention them and the specie in the same sentence. To call the venue prolific doesn’t begin to tell the story of a period when gluttonous 100 lb bags of spiky bream were expected, and wouldn’t draw a second glance among regular dabblers.

Legendary Littlehampton charter skippers like Dutton Etherington on Mark Twain, did much to put … Continue Reading