Bream Cup 2026
The Bream Cup 2026 is a two-day competitive fishing tournament.
Set on the Gippsland Lakes, the tournament targets BIG bream, brings together experienced anglers, showcases professional fishing boats and has a cash prize pool of $15,000.
What Visitors will see
🐟 Tournament boats returning to the Show precinct
🐟 Professional anglers discussing lures, rods and boat setups
🐟 Live catch updates on the Main Stage
🐟 Live weigh-ins
🐟 Winners crowned on Sunday afternoon
BREAM CUP 2026
Tournament Information for Competitors
Tournament Director
Many will know Ben from his years of service as an advocate in the recreational fishing and boating scene, but he is also an accomplished tournament lure fisher, both nationally and internationally.
Competitor Profiles
Name: Daryl Baird
Hometown: Duston, VIC
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 40+ years.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Camo worms
Favourite place to fish? Hollands
Career Highlights: 2 x ABT Champion, Boater Champion Team
Hobie Kayak Fishing Series: 2nd Mallacoota 2017, 2nd Bemm River 2018.
Social Media profiles:
NA
Sponsors: N/A
Name: Peter Breukel
Hometown: Lakes Entrance
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 10+ years.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Soft plastics and Hurricane sprat 75
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes
Career Highlights: Winning an ABT Round last year.
Social Media profiles:
https://www.facebook.com/pete.breukel
https://www.instagram.com/peterbreukel/
Sponsors: Hurricane Lures and Topstrike Tubes
Name: Mark Crompton
Hometown: Picton NSW
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 40+ years.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? I think it’s a bad idea in tournaments to have a favourite, whatever works on the day!
Favourite place to fish? Tasmania
Career Highlights: Winning dual ABT grand finals
Social Media profiles:
https://www.facebook.com/mark.crompton.73
Sponsors: Daiwa, Lowrance / Navico, PowerPole, Rise Above Plumbing Pty Ltd
Name: Paul Malov
Hometown: Moorabbin, Vic
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 20+ years.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Heavy structure fishing with soft plastics or the Outback Breamer Baits ‘Muss’
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes has to be my favourite bream fishery. Huge waterway, with a variety of different habitats and structures that suit all anglers and weather conditions
Career Highlights:
2013 ABT Bream Classic National champion team
Represented Australia at 2016 Hobie Kayak World Fishing Championships in Louisiana
Victorian TOY 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022, fishing with my dad.
Social Media profiles:
https://www.youtube.com/@PaulMalovFishing
https://www.facebook.com/paulmalovfishing/
https://www.instagram.com/paulmalovfishing/?hl=en
Sponsors: Lowrance, Millerods, Lovig Kayak Fishing, Tackleaddiction, Dizzy Scent
Name: Carl Everton
Hometown: Sale, Vic
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 6 years
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Soft plastics in particular the hurricane sprat 85
Favourite place to fish? “Mallacoota love the place”
Career Highlights: 3rd place in Vic Bream at Gippsland Lakes
Social Media profiles: N/A
Sponsors: N/A
Name: Dan Mackrell
Hometown: Colac, Vic
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 20 years, 16 years competitively in tournaments.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Fishing natural structure and snags, a variety of soft plastics and hard bodies.
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes, with the chance to chase the xos bream, the system is renowned for in such a large and diverse arena.
Career Highlights: 16 tournament victories, 8 x team of the year in Vic bream classics 2010, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23,24 & 25 fishing with fellow Colac teammates Declan Betts and Steve Parker.
Social Media profiles:
Instagram: @danmackrellfishing
Facebook: Dan Mackrell Fishing
Sponsors: Frogley’s Offshore & Mako Eyewear
Name: Peter Nord (Best known as “NORDY”)
Hometown: East Gippsland
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? As long as he can remember!
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Confident finesse fishing with tournament-tested Hurricane lures
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes, a system Nordy proudly calls the mecca of bream fishing in Australia (including Tasmania).
Career Highlights: Career highlights include 1st place at the VIC Bream Grand Final (Marlo) and a 1st place finish at the ABT Marlo / Bemm River round.
Social Media profiles:
Instagram: @hurricane_lures
Facebook: Hurricane Lures Australia
Sponsors: Hurricane Lures Australia
Name: Scott Scicluna
Hometown: Bairnsdale
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 10+ years of fishing Experience (4 Years Tournament Fishing)
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Love using Hard Bodies on flats – Samaki MS40 Pearl Shrimp & Hurricane Sprat 85
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes
Career Highlights: Non Boater Angler Of Year ABT Tournaments 2024
Finished 5th ABT Grand final 2025 -Marlo-Bemm River
Grand Final Win VIC Bream Classic Teams Event 2025 – Gippsland Lakes
Social Media profiles:
Facebook: ScottScicluna
Sponsors: Samaki
Name: Josh Jeffrey
Hometown: Mallacoota
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? About 12 years casually, 3 seasons of tournament fishing last year, being my first full year fishing all the Vic bream venues.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Soft Plastics and Hard Bodies’ favourite technique would have to be lightly weighted soft plastics in heavy structure.
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes
Career Highlights: Two tournament victories
Social Media profiles:
Instagram: @solo_fishin
Facebook: Josh Jeffrey
Sponsors: Munroes Soft Plastics
Name: Riley Whelan
Hometown: Metung
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? I’ve fished for bream for 8 years, and I have been competing in bream comps for 4 years
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Favourite technique is soft plastics, and favourite lure is the hurricane sprat 85 in the colour sickle UV
Favourite place to fish? Gippsland Lakes and Mallacoota
Career Highlights: Two top 10’s in Vic Bream, 5 x 1st places in the Juniors Hobie Australian Series
Social Media profiles:
Instagram: @rwhelan15
Facebook: Riley Whelan
Sponsors: Hurricane Lures Australia, Bass Strait Bait and Tackle, Whelcon
Name: Warren Carter
Hometown: Benalla, Victoria
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? My years of lure bream fishing are 15 years. I retired in Feb 2019.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? My signature fishing technique is using a jerk bait. My favourite lure is the Smith Jade/65mm DD Panish.
Favourite place to fish? Derwent River in Tasmania
Career Highlights: 2006 ABT NSW Angler of the Year, 2007 STC National Team of the Year (partners Norm Kemp/Cameron Whittam), 2009 Vic Bream Team of the Year (Partner Craig Seignior), 2010 ABT SA Angler of the Year, 2013 Vic Bream Team of the Year (partner Cameron Whittam), 2013 Vic Bream Grand Final 1st, 2013 ABT National AOY, 2014 ABT National Bass AOY, 2015 ABT National AOY, 2016 ABT National AOY, 2017 Vic Bream Grand Final 1st (Partner Cameron Whittam), Australian Fishing Championships 4 Appearances, AFC wins 3, Represented Australia in South Korea 2017 and placed 6th on Large Mouth Bass.
On the highlights, so many more, but the most important is the memories of friendships and like hearted friends that you meet along the way.
Social Media profiles: NA
Sponsors: Carters Roofing
Name: Declan Betts
Hometown: Colac, Victoria
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 15 years of tournament fishing.
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Soft plastics, pretty much any and all flavours
Favourite place to fish? Always loved the Derwent in Tassie, and Gippy Lakes are right there side by side, neck and neck!
Career Highlights:
2 ABT wins
9 VIC Bream classic wins
5 VIC Bream Classics Team of the Year
1 MLF win
Social Media profiles: @notaploverlover
Sponsors: Frogleys Offshore
Name: Jarrod Healey
Hometown: Paynesville, VIC
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 25 years, 20 years comp fishing
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Hardbodies on flats as well as sight casting to bream using light-weight plastics.
Favourite place to fish? Mallacoota for its edge and snag fishing, and the Gippsland lakes for its extra-large bream
Career Highlights: 2 ABT wins, 1 Vic Bream Classic win.
Social Media profiles: N/A
Sponsors: N/A
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Name: Tom Deer
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Name: Allan Morrison
Hometown: Longford
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? 40+
What’s your signature technique/ favourite lure? Daiwa wise minnow
Favourite place to fish? Tasmania
Career Highlights: ABT top 10 finishes non-boater
Social Media profiles: NA
Sponsors: NA
Name: Steve Duff
Hometown: Paynesville, VIC
How many years have you been Bream Fishing? I've been catching bream on lures since I was 13, and I'm now 59.
Favourite place to fish? Favourite place to lure Bream is the Gippsland Lakes. The biggest venue, along with the biggest Black bream in the country. I may be biased, though.
Career Highlights: Just enjoying Bream fishing and tournaments with a few wins along the way in ABT’S, AFC, VIC Breams and the old Bets tournaments in NSW.
Social Media profiles:
Duffrods and Steve Duff on Facebook
Duffrods and Duffrods Flyfishing on Instagram
Duffrods Kustom Fishing on YouTube
Duffrods – Steve Duff on LinkedIn
Sponsors: Duffrods, Raymarine, Lovig Kayak Fishing, Tackle Tactics, Vex Performance Lures, and Navionics.
