What is this fish??

[gullyworm]

I thought it was a guilthead,the photo is not very good but it was very silver,more then in the photo.
The head was greeny blue ,almost luminous when first caught.
I know a lot of you will prob say black bream but the general head shape looks all wrong.
By the way it weighed 2lb and tasted nice

[John Marshall]

Maybe a red bream, encounter a few last year.
Old Smoothie, we need your knowledge.........

[cuckoo]

It does look like a black bream mate ?.

[Ben]

i wasnt sure about gilthead when u told me but i wasnt gonna argue the fact
it hasnt got the stripes for a black bream either

[Davy Holt]

Hiya,

Tis a Black Bream, the mouth is the wrong shape for Red and Gilthead :)

[geffski]

yeah gota agree! just looks like a black bream! and a tubby one at that!

[gullyworm]

Ok i m going for black bream then .
It was the total lack of stripes that threw me,and it wasnt black
Cheers.

[geffski]

thers a bit of redish pink in ther tho?

[devondave]

certainly looks like a black bream to me and a 2lb one from the shore here is a good fish!

however i know you guys in the solent area do catch them bigger than we do

[tjnorton]

dont mean to scare anyone but in this months sea angler some one said that bream can be poisens to eat because its a hybrid of two fish.

tj