The 2025 Vic Bream Classic grand final will be staged on the Gippsland Lakes this Saturday and Sunday, based at Metung.
The event will feature 50 of the top bream tournament teams from the five qualifying rounds, all fighting to be crowned champion team in 2025.
The Vic Bream Classic Series has brought thousands of anglers from all over Victoria and interstate to the East Gippsland region for more than 20 years, along with many new anglers each year that get a taste of just what these picturesque towns have to offer.
This has started a long-term tradition of visiting the region following the series and holidaying with their families.
Over the past 20 years the series has injected an estimated 12 million dollars into the local economy of all the Victorian towns it has visited.
Tournament director Bill Hartshorne reflection on the 20th year of the brand.
“The beauty of this style of catch and release tournament fishing is you get to fish with your best mate, dad, mum, brother or sister – it is up to you,” Hartshorne said.
The tournaments are open to all age groups with the only restriction is that people under the age of 18 fish with a parent or approved guardian.
All anglers must fish out of a boat with a licensed boat operator on board.
Teams compete using lure, fly or soft plastic lures to weigh in five live legal-sized breams on each day’s competition, with the
heaviest two-day bag crowned the winner.
“If you love your lure fishing for bream and want to get better than there is no better way to fast track your skills than to compete in the Vic Bream Series, as there are any number of highly skilled anglers competing who will point you in the right direction, tell you the hot lure to use and best techniques to enable you to land that big bag of bream,” Hartshorne said.
The teams format creates a fantastic social feel to the weekend while still maintaining a high level of competition among teams.
Since its inception in 2005 the Vic Bream Classic Series has turned into a large family of passionate anglers who love to fish, socialise, and have fun across Victoria.
The event will see more than $40,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs with anglers leaving
nothing on the table and every trick, technique, skill, secret lure and ounce of knowledge will be unleashed to try to get in the money.
