Fly Rod and Bluegills

[Jock Scot]

Sandy.

Crumbs I am nearly out of my depth! Yes we have bream down in England(Ireland too I think), but they don't look anything like those you have shown and I think we only have one variety of fresh water bream. I have read your post and the attachment with interest and the Latin name for your version is very different than the Latin name for ours.Ours are silvery about the same shape(longer perhaps) as yours but without the spines and I think, going up to about 5 pounds. I am not aware that they can even be caught on a fly and no one but no one would contemplate eating one! Oh well it looks like I will just have to stick with wild Brown Trout, Atlantic Salmon, the occasional(these days) sea trout, the odd Arctic Char and the occasional pike.Ho Hum, such is life!

Some of you may be interested that the rainbow trout is not native to the UK and have been introduced here many years ago. Even more interestingly there is only one river in the UK where they breed naturally, the Derby-shire(pronounced DARBY-shire) Wye. It is something to do with water temperature apparently.All the other hundreds of thousands of rainbow trout that are bred here need the help of humans and hatcheries to breed.