RUDD AND WHITE BREAM 
unfavourably with another experience in which I am 
told I took part as a small boy. Fishing in a lake at 
Aldenham Abbey, near Watford, about forty years ago, 
my father, grandfather, and uncle (three rods) had a 
catch of 24 hundred weight of Bream, Rudd, and Tench 
in the course of 24 hours! The fish came suddenly on 
the feed after a heavy thunderstorm, with the remarkable 
result above recorded. When spawning in April or May 
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in shallow water, I have often heard Rudd make a pout- 
ing noise with the lips as they have shown part of their 
dappled bodies above the surface of the river. It will 
fraternise with other fishes, and hybrids between Roach 
and Rudd have been recorded. The name is probably 
derived from the colour of the scales. 
White Bream.—Blicca bjernka (Fig. 51). ‘This some- 
what uninteresting and distinctly local species is also 
known as the Silver Bream. It is much less common 
than the next fish upon our list, and is a good deal 
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