Re: Bream
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When does a skimmer bream become just a bream and why are they called skimmers?
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Match anglers used to call them skimmers as they could be skimmed across the surface quickly. Really small ones were known as razor blades. As to when a skimmer becomes a proper bream, I don't think there's a definitive point. For my part, up to two pounds or so they're skimmers; over that, bream.
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Excellent. Thanks GOS. :thumb:gloucesteroldspot wrote:Match anglers used to call them skimmers as they could be skimmed across the surface quickly. Really small ones were known as razor blades. As to when a skimmer becomes a proper bream, I don't think there's a definitive point. For my part, up to two pounds or so they're skimmers; over that, bream.
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It's also about the upper limit for skimming them to hand. I think the body thickness increases with maturity, resulting in a more solid fish which is perhaps why they don't skim so well above that weight. Certainly the biggest ones I've caught couldn't be skimmed, and they were taken on heavy carp tackle.
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Yes - at Aldenham Reservoir in the days before they lowered the level to kill off the marginal weed. In August and September vast shoals of small fish sheltered in these weeds, and most evenings perch would patrol the dam wall, slashing into the fry. On occasions I spotted bream among the perch, behaving in the same fashion. It was almost as if they'd become part of the shoal.BobH wrote:I have watched Bream smashing into shoals of Fry on Landridge has anyone heard of a Bream taking a Livebait ?
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I feel I ought to leap to the defence of Norfolk's staple fish - there are many anglers in this part of the world who fish for nothing but bream - but somehow I just can't. As a blank saver they are OK but I only ever suffer a little droop of disappointment when I realise the run I've had is a bream and not a carp or chub. That being said it may partly be because they are so darned easy to catch round here - if there was a tad more skill in enticing them I'd probably like them more.
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