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n. - Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales.

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  • Here fish can be a little more difficult to locate but large bream shoals are here to be found and caught.
  • Tai, or sea bream, is usually served whole; nothing is broken.
  • I've used them before but like beaverlog I like "bream" the best!
  • For flatheads I like live bait such as bream or large shiners fished just off the bottom in deep holes or eddys.
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