Differences between silver bream and white bream - differences in appearance, lifestyle, fishing technique

Methods for catching bream

An adult specimen of the carp family is of commercial importance and is caught everywhere.
The white bream is not caught on an industrial scale, since its size does not correspond to the permitted size. Recreational fishing for this species is permitted, but the size of the “plywood” must correspond to the minimum size allowed for catch. In different regions it ranges from 10 to 32 centimeters. However, if an angler aims to catch a white bream, then for successful fishing you need to know the characteristics of the fish

This fish is also called the “scoundrel” and this is due to its cunning, timidity and caution.

You can catch white bream using a float rod, feeder or donka. The best baits: worms, maggots, bloodworms, bread. The white bream and its older brother peck on raw lard. The best time for fishing is morning and evening.

The bream's bite is accurate; it will not grab the bait. When you see the float leaving smoothly, you need to wait intently. The bream tries the bait. Having tasted it, he will begin to eat it, and the jerks will be more active. At this moment you should hook the fish.

If fishing occurs in the winter season, then you should fish in pits with jigs. The main requirement is thin tackle. The thinner the line, the greater the chance of success. The main rule when hunting for bream is maintaining silence. You should not make noise both on the ice and on the shore in the spring. You should drill 3-5 pairs of holes, feed them and sprinkle them with snow.

Be sure to feed bream and bream. Since this fish is very neat and cautious, it will not immediately respond to bait. It will take time. It is better to use aromatic bait, based on barley, pearl barley or corn. Animal supplements of chopped worms and maggots are guaranteed to bring the bream to feed.

The most effective way is to catch bream using several fishing rods with different jigs. One should play and the other should catch. The game should be smooth, without sudden movements.

The same baits that are used as bait should be used on the hook. It should be noted that a particularly catchy bait is the so-called sandwich, when bloodworms and maggots alternate on the hook.

Since bream and bream are desirable fish for fishermen, water farms are engaged in breeding and preserving the population of this species. In the last century, commercial catch of this fish reached 120 thousand tons. These days the numbers have decreased by 3-4 times. People monitor the reservoirs where the bream lives, and in cases of threat to the population, special seines and artificial floating spawning grounds are installed. In addition, a ban on catching fish below a certain size also helps preserve the population of this fish.

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Scientists have proven that the white bream is a small bream. The silver bream is a “relative”, since both belong to the same family.

Advice. If a fisherman caught two identical large fish similar to a silver bream and a white bream, then most likely these are two bream.

It is much easier to catch it than bream, because, unlike it, the bream is located closer to the shore.

Having a small size, the bream is incredibly voracious, so getting it to peck will not be difficult.

Advice. Despite its gluttony, the bream is very careful. One careless sharp movement of the tackle, and he will leave.

Habitats:

clay-sand slopes;
depth approximately 4 meters;
between the pits.

They choose places with a large accumulation of algae. They live where the silver bream lives, so meeting these two individuals in the same body of water is not uncommon.

Advice. If you cast a fishing rod and a whitebait is caught on the hook, then after a few minutes you should repeat the cast to the same point. Perhaps you have found yourself in a hole where there is a whole flock of them.

You can often find hybrids of these two fish in reservoirs. This is explained by the fact that they spawn at the same time.

Preferences:

oxygenated water;
at noon they swim to the surface;
specific travel routes.

They are smart and careful. They gather in large flocks at depth.

Advice. The bream is better hooked in winter, but it can also be found in early June.

Nutrition:

small crustaceans;
worms;
insect larvae.

There are periods for fish when they feed exclusively on fry.

Advice. To bait the bream, you need to use small bloodworms; it is advisable to mix it with dry food. Favorite porridges are pea and wheat.

Reproduction

Breamers, being children of breams, do not reproduce. Bream spawn in shallow water; algae act as a “cushion” for eggs; females lay 120–140 eggs.

Description of the species

Despite the uniqueness of the genus, there are different species groups of fish, which are determined by their prevalence and habitat. The most famous include common, Danube, eastern and Volga bream. All of them have a strongly laterally compressed rounded body, which is characterized by an abnormal height of 1/3 of the length of the body. The main differences are color and size.

The standard is officially considered to be the large common bream, which is characterized by:

sides of brown, brown or golden shades;
fins are gray with a dark border;
yellowish belly;
a compact head with large eyes and a small retractable mouth-tube for sucking in small-sized plant food, which clearly answers the question of whether the bream is a predator or not.
scaleless keel between ventral and anal fins.

Juveniles can differ significantly in color from larger bream and are often completely silver in color. The short and high dorsal fin is noticeably displaced towards the tail and has three hard and about ten soft rays. The long anal fin also has several spines and a large number of less rigid rays (22-29 pieces).

The average weight of fish varies between 1.5-3 kg. More massive individuals with a length of 30-45 cm are considered trophy. The maximum weight is 6-7 kg. But there are exceptions.

If you do not take into account official statistics and refer to the records of domestic zoologists, you can find out that the largest bream caught in Russia weighed more than 16 kg. The reservoirs of the Vitebsk province (Pskov and Smolensk regions) were once famous for such giants.

White bream fish

The largest population of bream is represented by immature young animals up to three years old and weighing 300-700 g, which are distributed in all reservoirs of Russia, with the exception of rivers with too fast a flow or a rocky bottom. Historical confusion has led to the fact that the fish, which is similar to bream and is in fact one, received its own name - bream.

Many inexperienced fishermen are sure that bream and bream are different species, and try to find differences between them, which, of course, exist, but disappear with age. In addition to their smaller size and weight, the difference between the white bream and the bream is visible in the elongated body and silvery-white color of the former. A more difficult task is to find the differences between young bream and silver bream. This is another unique representative of the cyprinid family from the class of ray-finned fish, which alone forms the monotypic genus Blicca.

Gustera: similarities and differences from young bream

Fishing for bream on lakes and rivers in many parts of Russia often gives quite interesting results. The cage may contain identical fish in appearance with minimal differences in color. Some have pectoral and pelvic fins with a red or pink base and a gray tip, while others have a solid dark gray color, sometimes with a black border. It is the reddish-pinkish fins that are the first clue to the question of how to distinguish a silver bream from a bream.

The silver bream is not a large fish; it rarely grows to weigh more than 600-800 grams and remains a desirable trophy for pike, pike perch, and large perch all its life. That is why in reservoirs with an abundance of predators it has to become as invisible as possible, which leads to the disappearance of the red tint of the fins. And then the external resemblance to young bream becomes phenomenal.

White bream at spawning

Fishing for silver bream

In the spring, after the reservoir is freed from ice, silver bream is well caught shortly before spawning and, especially a week after it. At this time, she pecks throughout the day on bloodworms and worms. In summer, it bites better in the evening dawn and at night on maggots, pearl barley, rolled oats, semolina and millet porridge. In the fall, as the temperature drops, it again begins to be better caught with bloodworms and worms.

Fishing for silver bream in winter is very popular among fishermen. In winter, the best time to catch silver bream is the first two to three weeks after freeze-up and especially on the last ice. The best bait in winter is a bloodworm. Pieces of worms are used for bait in spring and autumn; in summer - maggots, bread, millet porridge, steamed pearl barley and oatmeal; in winter - small bloodworms, pieces of worms, ground crackers.

They catch silver bream from the bottom in open water using a summer float and bottom fishing rods; in winter, they catch silver bream with a float rod and a jig. Float fishing rods are equipped with fishing line 0.2-0.3 mm thick in summer, and 0.15-0.2 mm thick in winter. The hook is No. 3.5-5 with a short shank.

Often the silver bream is caught on a fishing rod when fishing for bream and other fish. The bite of the silver bream is usually sharp, the float quickly goes under the water. But sometimes she barely submerges or slightly lifts the float and drags it to the side. When fishing with a jig, the nod first slightly tilts down, then sharply rises up. At this moment you need to make a hook. The silver bream is a brave fish; it approaches the bait and bites almost right next to the boat.

Sopa - has a lighter body than that of the white bream and silver bream, and is even more elongated. A special feature is the shape of the nasal part of the head - it is sharply sloping down and creates the feeling that the mouth is pulled back.

Useful tips

Not all fishermen are well versed in the quality of the fish they catch. How many times have I heard from grandfathers and young fishermen on a pond the erroneous nicknames given to fish, often calling the sopa a bream, and the silver bream a sop. Let's figure it out or conduct a differential diagnosis, so to speak!

White bream is a fish with a flat, high body, often with red pectoral and ventral fins, large eyes, and a rounded tail. Compared to the white bream, the back is thicker.

The white bream is a juvenile of bream, the body is more runny than that of the silver bream, although there are also rounded specimens, like a pancake, the vyditel shape of the body depends on the prevailing habitat - current or standing water. The back is dark, the fins are gray. A peculiarity of the caudal fin is that its lower part is 0.5 or 1 cm longer than the upper part; when the parts are brought together, this is especially clearly visible.

Sopa - has a lighter body than that of the white bream and silver bream, and is even more elongated. A special feature is the shape of the nasal part of the head - it is sharply sloping down and creates the feeling that the mouth is pulled back.

Bluefish - the body is shaped like a sop's, in the sun the difference is clearly visible - the back shimmers in turquoise-blue-green color, the pectoral fins are pointed, somewhat reminiscent of the fins of saberfish.

White-eye - the body is almost white, with the exception of the back, it has a longer anal fin than the bream, the pupils are oval in shape with a vertical arrangement.

Here are the main differences between fish, which fishermen often confuse and call by other names. Although occasionally you come across fish that are difficult for even me to understand, apparently it happens that the eggs of one species of fish are fertilized by another, similar in morphological and genetic parameters, resulting in a kind of hybrid.

from left to right 1 - blue-eye, 2 - white-eye. In the photo, where there are 4 fish - from top to bottom - sop, 2 bream and the last one - silver bream.

There are no problems with large fish. The silver bream rarely reaches a weight of 800-900 grams; this is a truly rare trophy. Whereas in terms of bream, it is approximately 2.5-3 kg :). So, if in front of you is a flat two-kilogram fish, it is most likely a bream :)))

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There are no problems with large fish. The silver bream rarely reaches a weight of 800-900 grams; this is a truly rare trophy. Whereas in terms of bream, it is approximately 2.5-3 kg :). So, if in front of you is a flat two-kilogram fish, it is most likely a bream :)))

Questions arise when both fish are palm-sized. While the white bream looks more or less the same in different bodies of water, the same cannot be said about the silver bream. There is such a “picture” version of the silver bream, which cannot be confused with the white bream. She has pink or yellowish pectoral fins, a large eye, very large scales, and even the body proportions are not bream, but closer to crucian carp (but thinner, of course).

In other bodies of water, the silver bream is so similar to the white bream that even an experienced fisherman cannot immediately distinguish them from each other. It’s easier when both fish are lying nearby, but if only one of them is caught, then what to do? There are varieties of silver bream with dark fins, like those of a bream, without a hint of pink. You also can’t immediately determine whether it’s big or not, if you don’t have anything to compare it with. Is it the same with scales, are they big or not?

Fortunately, there is a very simple method based on a quantitative indicator. We count the number of scales from the lateral line to the dorsal fin. The silver bream has larger scales and will have up to 13 scales, usually 8-12. The bream has smaller scales, this will be especially noticeable when approaching the dorsal fin. The bream will have 14 or more scales.

Here is such a simple way that allows you not to dissect the fish and not count the pharyngeal teeth :), which, by the way, are in one row in the white bream, and in two in the white bream. This will surely separate one fish from another, but the method is quite cruel