Identification Help Please!

[Liberty]

Caught this today.  Is it a carp?  

Not a good picture, but the only one I have in case it wriggled!

[Poppy]

No - it's a bronze bream. Quite common on the Broads.

[Gracie]

Caught a few of them on the Broads myself, nice fish, well done  Whereabouts are you fishing if you don't mind me asking?

Grace

[Liberty]

A bronze bream - thank you.  Never heard of them!

Womack Water this afternoon.  Seemed to fight a lot harder than a silver bream, and the big scales had me fooled!  Biggest thing I've ever hauled out of the Broads (other than shopping trolleys near Yarmouth).

 

[BroadScot]

45 minutes ago, Liberty said:

Biggest thing I've ever hauled out of the Broads (other than shopping trolleys near Yarmouth).

I do hope you returned the £1.00p coin from it! 

Iain

[Liberty]

Not a chance.  I'm a magpie - anything shiny...!

[troutman62]

15 hours ago, Liberty said:

A bronze bream - thank you.  Never heard of them!

Womack Water this afternoon.  Seemed to fight a lot harder than a silver bream, and the big scales had me fooled!  Biggest thing I've ever hauled out of the Broads (other than shopping trolleys near Yarmouth).

 

I think that what you're calling silver bream are actually  young Bronze Bream. Silver Bream are pretty rare, all small Bronzies are silver and don't darken up till they've got a couple of pounds on or thereaboutst.

Nice fish !! well done.

[JennyMorgan]

If you want more bream then head towards the River Waveney, they are being very obliging right now! 

[Wildfuzz]

Hickling has some good sized ones, or did last time I got out, simple feeder rig with lots of ground bait in your swim, they feed better at low light / night. Worms for the big guns, maggots for the rest (Red seems favorite).

[Wildfuzz]

There was a recipe for them recently from John BAILEY.

 

Wash the Bream and place in a cardboard container, slow cook for two hours then throw the Bream and eat the cardboard!!!!!!!

[JennyMorgan]

Whilst I do use a feeder in the river I find that a float works a treat on my local broad. At the moment am having success by fishing the margins and shallows. Agreed that 'reds' are favourite, bread is good too.

[Liberty]

Much appreciate all the info, thank you all.