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What's a bream ? Always read about you all fishing for them , I googled a pic and got conflicting pictures some they show bluegill and other assorted sunfish/pan fish and some pics show a different kind of fish it still panfish like in shape . Sorta looks like a Virginia spot but freshwater of course . Do you guys just call all pan fish bream?or what exactly is it ? I know we don't have them up here in Pa.
Tim
RU shooter,
At least in Northeast TX, where I was born & raised, "bream" are any members of the perch family that are called SUNFISH, except white/black crappie.
yours, tex
I think it's a general term for sunfish......at least here in SC, folks will use 'bream' to describe species such as redear, warmouth, pumpkinseed, etc.
In Arkansas bluegill bream sunfish are all used interchangeable.
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in texas, bluegills/sunfish are considered bream. In other states I think its an actual fish. Also, we call them "perch" but they ain't the same yellow perch ice fisherman catch.
Got it thanks , yeah nothing like the yellow perch we have up here they sorta look like a walleyes smaller cousin . But just as tasty :)
It’s brim around here. Never seen bream that I recall.
All names for the same little bluegill, perch ...whatever.
Same here in Mississippi. Perch family, bluegill, sun perch, chinquapin.
Maybe I'm just mis spelling or mis pronouncing the name ?? Probably the same I'm sure . Like calling a creek a "crick" like we do in western Pa. :razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nines&Twos
brim/bream just depends on the pronunciation, same fish :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nines&Twos
In South and Central TX, what he said (but we say "brim"). :razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by texasnative46
It’s all trivial, location specific slang.
I was in my mid 20’s before I ever heard the word venison. I thought then, what tha ‘ell is a venison? What a stupid name for deer meat. LOL!!
Yep, brim. Lots of bones but tasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nines&Twos
We also have a hybrid bream called a red ear. It’s got a red dot on the gills. Sort of a super size bream.
Mmm mmmmm good
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Derek P Houston; sparkyv,
Oddly enough, I've found BOTH spellings in TPWD & AGRILIFE documents for the same group of panfish, that we Texicans also call "perch".
(As far as I know, we have NO yellow perch in TX, other than in some aquariums. - Like the big aquarium at Fair Park in Dallas.)
yours, tex
Bream is any small fish that resembles sun fish/ pan fish that is to small to eat but big enough for bait.
Tex learned it the way I did.....perch, all the varieties, and they are great eating......PaulQuote:
Originally Posted by texasnative46
buckwheatpaul,
Fwiw, I do NOT eat brim/bream. Instead, I use them for trotline & set-hook bait for catfish.
(Flatheads love them & they stay alive for quite some time, IF you handle them carefully. = The biggest yellow-cat that I ever saw/caught was hooked on a "limb line" baited with a BIG red-ear. )
yours, tex