Red-Breasted Bream 



Red -breasted Bream 



Lepomis mtritits (Linnaeus) 



The red-breasted bream or yellow-belly is found from Maine to 

 Louisiana and is abundant in all streams east of the Alleghanies. It 

 reaches a length of 6 to 8 inches and is a good little pan-fish, it can 

 be taken readily on the hook baited with angleworm. 



Body elongate, not elevated; mouth rather large, oblique, the 

 maxillary reaching past front of eye; gillrakers quite short, X + 8 or 9, 

 stiff and rough, set wide apart; opercular flap very long (longer in 

 the adult than in any other sunfish except L. megalotis), usually not 

 wider than the eye; lower margin of flap usually pale. Colour, 

 olive; belly largely orange-red; side with reddish spots on a bluish 

 ground; vertical fins chiefly orange or yellowish; head usually with 

 bluish stripes, especially in front of eye, most distinct in adult; fins 

 becoming dusky in spirits; no dusky blotch on last rays of dorsal 

 or anal. 



Scarlet Sunfish 



Lepomis miniatiis Jordan 



This handsome little fish is found in the lowland streams along 

 the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida, passing over even to the 



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