Hi Ho Silver Lining

Don't know anything about Jeff Beck but I'd bet a nugget he never caught a silver bream  I probably hadn't till yesterday unless I count the tiny little thing I caught from Danbury Park Lake when I was 12 that came  with a bonus tiny float and an even tinier size 22 hook. I didn't even know they were plentiful in the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire  Fens system. I'd spread my post work wings to the edge of my territory to spend an late afternoon 15 feet down a high bank chewing the fat with the Loafer (aka Essex Scribbler) out on a mini road trip in his Twisted Melon Hymer. I think the Middle Level is vague enough. I certainly had to throw a pink if not red herring to the Facebook swim jumper replies. And Pingle Bridge is a real place btw.

It's deep and quite rugged and needed some positive baiting to stir an interest, see below: once they were on it every chuck a coconut but (most) bites hard to hit on our basic open ended feeder tactic but the Loafer reported better results on the slider. We both thought a long pole to hand would be even better if it wasn't permanently windy, even tucked in down below the flood banks. .

Wurms mostly for the Loafer so this lovely perch was no surprise. 

I dropped down to a 14  with single corn to get a better hook up ratio and we certainly were in a silver bream hotspot

I'm sure we had some hybrids but you wouldn't need to be Dr Redfin to spot a true one. Lovely little things they are and game scrappers too.

I had a couple of tiny skimmers, a couple of rudd and this odd thing, neither roach or rudd.

A lovely late afternoon indeed. The Loafer is right though, definitely Bandit country.