Coarse Fish

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BREAM. This fish seems thoroughly to enjoy the society of his fellows, roaming about in great shoals, taking things very easily, and never displaying undue haste in his movements unless alarmed. The only time I have seen him in a hurry on his own account is when he flops himself on the surface of the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BREAM. This fish seems thoroughly to enjoy the society of his fellows, roaming about in great shoals, taking things very easily, and never displaying undue haste in his movements unless alarmed. The only time I have seen him in a hurry on his own account is when he flops himself on the surface of the water; even this he does in a slipshod sort of manner, making a short splash, as if the effort were too much for him. Bream are of two sorts, the carp or brown bream, TWO and the white or silver bream. Carp bream species grov to a heavy weight, ten pounds or thereabouts being a very large fish indeed; you may fish a very long while before getting a six- pounder. The largest silver bream I have taken have been somewhere about a pound in weight. These silver bream are little good for sport; tin- plate is a nickname given to them, and they really do look very much like tin plates in the water when hooked. Carp bream, on the contrary, give good sport for a rush or two, as the tackle used is very fine and light. Bellows-bream well defines the shape of the fish. They are very deep and narrow, with deeply forked tails, small heads, CO and large eyes. It is very interesting to watch a shoal of big bream in clear water, where they look grey or bluish-grey; and when they turn, if the sun be shining, their flat sides make them look much larger than they really are. I frequently notice the shoal is led by one big fellow, and that they turn when he turns, coming up one side of a pool or shallow and returning by the other; or they wheel slowly to right or left, and go down stream, the former leader being almost the last in the ranks. If you stand up and alarm the fish there is a grand helter-skelter, and bream then show they can move if they are put to it. One fine day I...