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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
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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
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sure beats working! Fish look great.
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I can't wait till I can go fishing......
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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.
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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.
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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"?
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Love me some 'eyes !
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"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Red worms on a small gold wire aberdeen, no weight, small float about 4' up. Work the railroad trestles.... The big crappie and bass are a bonus. I chuck the bass back.
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.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Conduct is the best proof of character.
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South end of CDA Lake, Rocky Point/Chatcolet and east area....
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Thumbs up..
I didn't know the 'gills were that big in that lake or perhaps I'd not be kickin' myself.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Those have some shoulders! love to catch them on crickets
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I keep saying i want a kayak.
Fraid I’d be top heavy.
I’ll stick with John boats. 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...
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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$$ies. these are right out of my pond.
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The red bellies don’t get big enough to filet. Cook em whole. Haha. Does anybody know how to scale a bream anymore? When's the last time anybody saw a fish scaler in the fishing section at the store? I use a spoon myself, but fish scalers used to be pretty common Need to go try for a few bream myself GrandDad always used a butter knife to scale them when I was a kid. I remember he laughed at me because I bought a fish scaler at Gibson’s Discount Center. Also remember all the old time bait houses sold them when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, I paid $ .29 cents for mine in about 1969.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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arrgghh you filleted them ...noooo. rake the scales off, cut the heads off and gut them. then fry them. the fins come out like potato chips. fillets are for pu$$ies. these are right out of my pond. 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.
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I remember eating fried fish tails when I was a kid fishing with my grandfather! Been a long time.
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