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 2I hundred weight of Bream, Rudd, and Tench 

 in the course of 2^ hours ! The fish came suddenly on 

 the feed after a heavy thunderstorm, with the remarkable 

 result above recorded. When spawning in April or May 



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. — BHcca hjoernka (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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