Underwater fishing :: Bream

My diving friends and me caught the most of breams while we were moving with a stream or hiding. Two factors explain it. First of all in the daytime the breams gather in the flocks and often move in the water column. Secondly they are very fearful and even an experienced hunter scares the flock before he has seen it.

   After we had pointed downstream a place of hunt beginning, side by side my friend and me were swimming with a stream of a narrow channel. Suddenly a bream flock rolled on us. They passed at about a meter from us by both sides and disappeared as soon as they appeared. Only I shot and seems just because of I was scared. Of course, I missed. In a minute all repeated. But now we both shot and though we did it more knowingly, we missed again.

   I caught my first bream after I had swam to the end of the channel and started to hunt moving up the stream. Coming up from the grass I saw a single fish, which was ‘flying’ just to my harpoon. I needed just to pull the trigger. I remember I was wondered much that I shot almost point-blank en face, but the bream was hit with the arrow just in the middle, half face. In a moment, I couldn’t even notice, the bream turned in 90 degrees. That is quickness!

   It is more probably to meet two flocks of breams in the reaches or in the wide, calm streaming parts of river. In the best case there is a chance to hit only one or two fishes of such flock, even if it is big. Such situation made hunters to develop and make double-barreled underwater gun. But very soon they denied it, because it is too bad in use and mostly because it is too dangerous for a hunter.

   You can often meet a single bream swimming calm in the grass. But it is not available to look at it for a long time – in a moment the fish see danger and runs away with a desirable sprinter speed. If an adult or a young bream didn’t run away at once it is probably sick. Mostly it has a tapeworm. At the last stage of sickness such bream has a positive floatation, can’t already go in water and spends its last days in the reservoir surface.

   I also shoot in the breams, which were staying motionlessly in the underwater grass. More than that, in the thickest grass. So thick that at the bright day I had to peer for a long time at the darkness and get used to it to find a ‘frozen’ black bream there. Why black? Because when you look underwater at any fish from a tail, it always seems black. Though as is well known the bream weighing till two pounds is of brighter, silver color and from three pounds – of darker, goldish color. The fishers call them ‘bronzy’. As diving hunters say, in the thick grass the bream can stay in a very unusual pose: with trim by the ‘bow’ or by the ‘stern’. We have never seen another fishes with such behavior.

   In the middle belt and South of Russia diving hunter mostly catch the roaches, the ides, the pikes, the chubs, less – the pikeperches, the cat-fishes, the sazans, and the least – the breams. That is why a bronzy handsome one is desired and respected trophy of the most experienced hunters.

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