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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

Brooms great catch awesome meal in itself but throw in some grilled elk steak with that and you.ll have your own " surf and turf". Mb

sure beats working! Fish look great.

I can't wait till I can go fishing......

I usually use those for bait but big ones like that are pretty darn good eating.

We’re in good shape here insofar as the fishing is going. Shad are finally on the bank and the blues are coming up on the flats in the evenings chasing them. Been pretty good fishing for them the last two nights. Even been getting a bonus saugeye here and there on catfish rigs.

Crappie have been weird this year but my wife caught a 17 1/4” that weighed a shade over 3lb last weekend.

I’m dragging the boat out to pull plugs for Saugeye after work today if the wind doesn’t come up too bad.

Crappie, red ear, bluegill, sauger, are all first rate eating fish. Channel cats are good too, so are bass, but the panfish are usually your best eating.

Love a mess of pan fish! Growing up in WI we focused on them in the spring and winter (ice fishing). The "keeper" criteria was always, "will the fillet cover a slice of wonder bread"?

Love me some 'eyes !

Nice.

Cool, thanks for the info. I always did good in SoCal mountains with the meal worms, bur reds worked too when needed.

Pend Oreille? Coeur d'Alene?

I kick myself sometimes for not getting up that way when I lived down south of that area in E WA.

Nice. What water?

South end of CDA Lake, Rocky Point/Chatcolet and east area....

Thumbs up..

I didn't know the 'gills were that big in that lake or perhaps I'd not be kickin' myself.

Damn nice bucket of eats

Those have some shoulders! love to catch them on crickets

I'm about 6'2" and close to 250. I have a 10.5' Perception kayak. I don't think I could tip the thing over if I tried. VERY stable. The seat is actually fairly comfortable, so it's easy to sit in all day. Getting in and out of it, though..... that can start to get difficult.

A friend of mine who is a much bigger fisherman than I am can filet a bluegill. Even the ordinary size ones, not just the bigguns. I never could do it, and I always scaled them. I saw a video on an easy way to filet, and I haven't tried it yet. I need to find that video again...

arrgghh you filleted them ...noooo.

rake the scales off, cut the heads off and gut them. then fry them. the fins come out like potato chips. fillets are for pu$$ies. these are right out of my pond.

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 just had a flashback to my childhood. There's no telling how many tons of those I caught with grey crickets that Dad cooked up just that way. Dad cooked the fish, not the crickets.

I remember eating fried fish tails when I was a kid fishing with my grandfather! Been a long time.