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Robert Boland just gave me a revelation. Most of y'all don't call bluegills bluegill down south, right? If you're calling them bream, then maybe people in the South U.S. may be searching the internet under "bream" and this site doesn't show up. I think that I'll try to start incorporating the word "bream" into a few more discussions and blogs to try to help this situation. Big bream rock, too! :)

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And don't forget "brim."
them big O biguns,i call them thumpers,nothing like that thumping at the end of that fly leader.





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Could be a shocker! Think you gotta 2lb bass on the end of your spinner bait when to your amazement when it reaches the boat its a 1/2 lb shellcraka
oh yes them big O big'uns notin like'em. the blue gill,bream,or as i like to call them gills,are of the sunfish fmly. along with ,Bluespotted Sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus)and





Green sunfishGreen Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus)





Largemouth bassLargemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)





Longear sunfishLongear Sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)





mud_sunfishMud Sunfish (Acantharchus pomotis)





pumpkinseedPumpkinseed Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)





rock bassRock Bass (Ambloplites rupestris)





smallmouth bassSmallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieui)



Black CrappieBlack Crappie (Pomoxis negromaculatus)
I think this is true once you're south of the mason dickson line. After 23 years I'm still not fully countrified, But I have learned the lingo.
We call large males Bulls! large females Sows! Go figure...
Richard we call them bull bream down here too,like you said if someone catches some big bream they will refer to them as ,bull bream.
Yessir down here in Florida and the rest of the south theys Bream

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