THE BREAM. 



CHAPTER VI. 



BREAM AND BREAM FISHING. 



Bream fishing— White Bream — Carp Bream — Weight of Bream- 

 Distribution of Bream— Peculiarities of Bream— '' On the flit"— Antiquity 

 of Bream — Bream in the frying-pan — The Trent style — The Ouse style — 

 A rustic breamer — A Picture drawn from life— Night fishing^The outfit— 

 Ground-baiting for Bream — A Bi'eam bite — The hook and crutch — The 

 weather in connection with Bream fishing — Special precautions — Lake 

 Bream — An extraordinary ground bait — Hook baits — Ledgering for 

 Bream — ''Au revoir." 



"The trembling quill in this slow strtam, 

 Betrays the hunger of a Bream." 



This distinguished member of the carp tribe is also a fish 

 much sought after by working men anglers. In some waters 

 of England they swarm in countless shoals; and given a 

 favourable day, or more frequently night, the catch of a 

 couple of rods can be counted by the stone, or even at odd 

 times the hundredweight. And when the fact is added that 

 they run up to a good size; also that a ready sale for any 

 captured bream can be effected, and the capture itself made 

 with tackle of the cheapest and simplest kind, to say nothing 

 of the hook baits and ground baits costing next to nothing, 

 or at most not more than a shilling or two for a whole month's 

 supply, it is not to be wondered at that these fish play an 

 important part in the sport of those riverside anglers whose 

 lines happen to be cast in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 a good bream water. 



There are three kinds of bream in English waters, but one 

 of them, known as the Pomeranian bream, is so very seldom 

 seen or caught by the ordinary angler that we will at once 



