. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 43° AMERICAN FISHES. The Bream is higlily i)rized by many European anglers, but is perhaps less in favor than it was two hundred years ago, when this proverb was current : " Qui a breme, pcut bramer ses amis," or as Walton translated it, missing the pun : " He that hath bream in his pond may bid his friend. THE KUKOPKAN IIRKAM. ABKAMIS DRAMA. ; In Chaucer's day the Brea
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 43° AMERICAN FISHES. The Bream is higlily i)rized by many European anglers, but is perhaps less in favor than it was two hundred years ago, when this proverb was current : " Qui a breme, pcut bramer ses amis," or as Walton translated it, missing the pun : " He that hath bream in his pond may bid his friend. THE KUKOPKAN IIRKAM. ABKAMIS DRAMA. ; In Chaucer's day the Bream was apparently cultivated in ponds in England, but now is somewhat neglected, even by anglers, though Wheeldon devotes a chapter to Bream fishing in his " Practical Lessons in the Gentle ; In Germany the Brasse is in high favor, and is l)y some preferred to the Carp, especially for winter eating.* Great quanti- ties are brought to the markets. The American Bream, or Golden Shiner, Noteviigonns clirysolcucus, is a better fish than its English namesake, and as an angler's fish, more like the Roach. It is in fact, often called Roach and Shiner in the Middle and Eastern States, Dakota and Texas, while an allied species, N'. amcri- canus, inhabits the rivers of the South Atlantic States, and others occur in limited areas elsewhere. N. chrysolcucits abounds in most rivers east of the Great Plains, fre- quenting ponds, bayous, canals and ditches, and is the most abundant of all cyprinoids in the tide-water region, preferring waters in which the bot- tom is covered with acpiatic plants. It reaches the length of nearly a foot, and the weight of a pound and a half, and is sometimes brought to mar- To Cook Bream.—Cleanse him and lay him in salt .ind water one hour ; stuff with a rich veal stuffing, and bake him---plentifully anointed with j;"oU butter—in a slow oven, until the meat comes off easily from the bones. Serve hiin up, hoi and hot, with cayenne pepper
Size: 2144px × 1166px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, booksubjectfishes, booksubjectfishing, bookyear1
