Originally Posted by BigDave39355
Originally Posted by chlinstructor
Originally Posted by Ranger99
Originally Posted by BigDave39355


The red bellies don’t get big enough to filet. Cook em whole.


Haha. Does anybody know how to scale a bream
anymore? When's the last time anybody saw a
fish scaler in the fishing section at the store?
I use a spoon myself, but fish scalers used to be
pretty common

Need to go try for a few bream myself


GrandDad always used a butter knife to scale them when I was a kid. I remember he laughed at me because I bought a fish scaler at Gibson’s Discount Center. Also remember all the old time bait houses sold them when I was a kid.
If I remember correctly, I paid $ .29 cents for mine in about 1969.


I scale em with a spoon.

Gibson’s.

Several around here. They had all the cool fishing stuff.

Last Gibson’s i went to was in Irving Tx. Seems that one stayed open longer than the rest.
My grandmother lived there. Last time i was there. 10 yrs ago for her funeral. It was a Mexican grocery.
Made fresh tortillas. My goodness. They were good.



I think their are only two Gibson’s left in TX now. One in Kerville and one in Weatherford. We had two big ones in Abilene when I was growing up. My Aunt managed the toy department in the biggest one. Mom would drop us off with her in her department when she went shopping. But I’d always run away to the Hunting and Fishing department. 🤠

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