THE BREAM 

 abounds in all the rivers and broads — it is described by English, French 

 and German ichthyologists as a district species, not growing to more 

 than a pound or so, but fish breeders who have reared these bream flats 

 in their ponds tell me that they grow into stately fish of over five pounds' 

 weight, in outward appearance just like the true bream; still the differ- 

 ences in the throat teeth, which in the bream are described as being in a 

 single series, those in the bream flat as in two series, are, I admit, not 

 to be easily swallowed. Buckland mentions that Dr Norman, who was 

 keenly interested in fish and fishing, informed him that great quantities 

 of small bream are used as bait for crab and lobster pots. 



In angling for bream the baits, tackle, etc., mentioned in the notes 

 on roach, are used — personally I find a light twelve -foot roach rod, or an 

 old fly rod with a flne gut fly cast and small roach hook increase one's 

 sport — the ground bait given for roach fishing answers just as well for 

 bream, and when the fish run from three pounds to over five pounds, they 

 require careful handling of the rod with light tackle, especially in a river, 

 as they have a way of rolling over suddenly, when their weight may break 

 fine drawn gut. Marsh worms, garden worms— called lob worms when 

 large — are favourite baits for bream, and I have caught a great many on 

 brown bread paste. 



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