I haven't locked the target, baited the line, slowly spread the net or caught the man in some time.
I have traditionally used a small modern fishing rod with 6lb line with a two foot trace below the sinker and small suicide hooks. A small rod makes landing fish of any size far more exciting, and the rod is typically much more sensitive especially with a hollow glass tip. I fish estuary and bait a strip of old bay mullet using a little bit of the rubbery stomach as a sort of cork on the hook to keep the strip of flesh from being sucked off the line by non desirable and undersized fish.
A little spray of aniseed does the trick in attracting Bream.
