[pics] Is this a bream?

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10-27-2010, 05:23 AM
xiaolu

[pics] Is this a bream?

I caught this one from brackish water in Stockholm, Sweden last month (September 2010) while on a business trip there. It is at least 3 lbs:

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_13.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_1.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_5.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_15.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_18.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_19.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_20.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_24.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_26.jpg

http://www.xiaolujin.com/fishing/919_28.jpg
10-27-2010, 06:18 AM
Fisherman_Wantabe

If it is, it's the biggest one I have ever seen :D But I don't think it is.
Good looking country side.
10-27-2010, 08:21 AM
deathb4disco

It's spelled the same as our bream, but it's pronounced "breem". Young ones are called "skimmers" and look nothing like the adults. They are a very popular fish all over Europe.

The one you got is a nice one. I think the world record is around 16 pounds.
10-27-2010, 10:11 AM
xiaolu

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

It's spelled the same as our bream, but it's pronounced "breem". Young ones are called "skimmers" and look nothing like the adults. They are a very popular fish all over Europe.

The one you got is a nice one. I think the world record is around 16 pounds.

Thanks! I once did a search on google -> images -> "bream fish", and found photos of the same fish all over the place. Now you say for the same word "bream", there are two different types of fish! No wonder:-)
10-27-2010, 11:43 AM
deathb4disco

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Originally Posted by xiaolu

Now you say for the same word "bream", there are two different types of fish!

There are probably more than two. The word "bream" comes from the French word "breme". The English then adopted the French term. It looks like whatever lands the French and English colonized, they pegged a local fish with the name "bream". There's an Australian bream that's very popular (they even have a tourney trail similar to our bass fisherman), and I'm pretty sure there's at least one African fish that is called a "bream".
10-27-2010, 06:07 PM
xiaolu

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

There are probably more than two. The word "bream" comes from the French word "breme". The English then adopted the French term. It looks like whatever lands the French and English colonized, they pegged a local fish with the name "bream". There's an Australian bream that's very popular (they even have a tourney trail similar to our bass fisherman), and I'm pretty sure there's at least one African fish that is called a "bream".

Thanks again for the detailed info!:-)
10-27-2010, 07:34 PM
dwaw

did it taste like a blue gill?
10-27-2010, 07:36 PM
Percidae_Papermouth

crazy fish! Nice pictures,
10-27-2010, 08:35 PM
brianm

What did you catch him on?
10-28-2010, 05:36 AM
xiaolu

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwaw

did it taste like a blue gill?

I didn't eat it, so I really don't know (I was told this fish is full of bones, by the way)

(when fishing while on the road on a business trip, I don't keep anything but only do "catch and release":-)
10-28-2010, 06:18 PM
T.C.

Hey deathb4disco. your like a walking fish encylopedia. lol. how you know so much? boring days at work?
10-28-2010, 09:12 PM
deathb4disco

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Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun

Hey deathb4disco. your like a walking fish encylopedia. lol. how you know so much? boring days at work?

Compared to fishing, every day at work is boring. :D

Actually, I know about the European bream because:

1) I fished in Europe a little and caught a young bream (skimmer)

2) I have a couple of English friends who taught me a lot about their fish and fishing methods

3) Based on #1 and #2, I got very interested in English/European methods, so I subscribed to several English fishing mags for a few years.
10-29-2010, 05:48 AM
xiaolu

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Originally Posted by brianm

What did you catch him on?

Caught it with worm. I didn't have any lure or bait with me while on travel, so I simply dropped by a bait shop in the city and bought some worms. Interestingly, the worms I bought there are so tiny and thin (compared what I'd get from here in Canada: Canadian crawlers, that is:-)
10-29-2010, 06:12 PM
Big Crappie 2

Looks like a big shiner!
10-29-2010, 06:41 PM
Slipped Cork

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Originally Posted by Big Crappie 2

Looks like a big shiner!

I was thinking the same thing. I was also thinking an asian carp or a big shad?
11-02-2010, 09:14 AM
hair jig

lOOKS LIKE A BIG GIZZARD SHAD TO ME
11-02-2010, 09:19 AM
hnd

i only know that that is called a bream because of my fishing game on my iphone that had to be developed in europe.
01-05-2011, 02:50 PM
Haynesvillefarmer

Looks like a river shad, but a little different color.
01-10-2011, 06:00 AM
Spoonminnow

Common bream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

looks like a common bream. In the north we call them a gold shiner.
01-10-2011, 11:21 AM
Lowellhturner

Noticed the dorsel "hump" and deeply forked tail, am not saying it isn`t a "bream" but does not appear to be a bluegill/ sunfish for those reasons, LOOKS like member of the shad or alewife? family? Tail is TOO deeply forked to be a white bass...