Silver Bream..........??

[Peter Sharpe]

Perhaps even stranger than that, many years ago from the River Glen, I occasionally caught "bonsai" bream of about five inches long, that were perfect replicas of large adults. They were a very deep bronze/brown in colour and had very well defined scales. I have never come across any similar ones since that time and Ican't believe they were just stunted.

[Dick Dastardly]

Peter I have long felt that the changing of colour from skimmer "silver" to bronze is due to age rather than size (dis regarding "washing out" due to water colout/clarity) as Ive caught bream of over "skimmer size" that are still silver and 1 1/2lb bream that are bronze.

[tommo666]

so does any one know, is this a silver bream

 

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[kendo]

looks like a team daiwa keepnet but without being able to feel the mesh I could be wrong.

[Peter Sharpe]

It's almost certainly an immature common bream. It's eyes are too small for a silver bream and the fins are completely the wrong colour. Having said that, the scales look a bit delicate for a common bream, so there could be doubts about its parentage.

[martin@tryangling]

I think Pete is right. As a rough guidline if the space between the tip of the nose and the edge of the eye is larger than the diameter of the eye, then its a bronze bream. Silver bream have disproportionaly large eyes.