Thread: Giant bream

Originally Posted by "D"

Brucec, it's what we call red ears/shell crackers....we also call crappie white perch or sac-au- lait. pronounce sack olay. We speak funny down here. lol

I thought they spoke funny every where else.

Not small around here Ray, that's real nice for us. Check out the bream forum here, those folks catch some huge ones in California and Arizona. I'd be after them big time and wouldn't concern myself looking for crappie.

Originally Posted by Tony the Tiger

I thought they spoke funny every where else.

What I found interesting was when Slab came down for our gathering at Toledo Bend - that man has an accent us folks weren't used to.

i know when i was in Utah for a while it was really hard to find a place to catch Southern species like bass and bluegill, but we stumbled upon a small lake out of Vernal,Utah called PELICAN LAKE strange enough since having been born and raised in Louisiana (THE PELICAN STATE) that had bluegill and bass in it that was originally stocked in the 1950's with this species and the local cafe on the lake had a picture of what they called the lake record and it weighed 3.5 pounds? Perhaps it was never officially certified? I know as soon as the ice was off the lake you could catch 50 to 100 bass per day and then after temps warmed a little you could take a flyrod with popping bugs and catch bream that were 1#+ on a regular basis! ~~<*{{{{<< On most lakes in the West they kill off this type fish to preserve the trout population...... that had to be restocked every year, so they would spray rotenot? on the lake to kill the scaled species such as bream and bass!!! Also even though there were crawfish in some of the lakes there, it was illegal to transport them live because they love to eat the trout eggs and there was the fear that they might be accidently released into a lake that Utah Dept. of Natural Resources regularly stocked trout into??? Too bad they didn't prefer a fish that can reproduce automatically....... ~~<*{{{{<<

Originally Posted by FSH4FUN

i know when i was in Utah for a while it was really hard to find a place to catch Southern species like bass and bluegill, but we stumbled upon a small lake out of Vernal,Utah called PELICAN LAKE strange enough since having been born and raised in Louisiana (THE PELICAN STATE) that had bluegill and bass in it that was originally stocked in the 1950's with this species and the local cafe on the lake had a picture of what they called the lake record and it weighed 3.5 pounds? Perhaps it was never officially certified? I know as soon as the ice was off the lake you could catch 50 to 100 bass per day and then after temps warmed a little you could take a flyrod with popping bugs and catch bream that were 1#+ on a regular basis! ~~<*{{{{<< On most lakes in the West they kill off this type fish to preserve the trout population...... that had to be restocked every year, so they would spray rotenot? on the lake to kill the scaled species such as bream and bass!!! Also even though there were crawfish in some of the lakes there, it was illegal to transport them live because they love to eat the trout eggs and there was the fear that they might be accidently released into a lake that Utah Dept. of Natural Resources regularly stocked trout into??? Too bad they didn't prefer a fish that can reproduce automatically....... ~~<*{{{{<<

Whaaaaaat??

Thanks D I like the way y'all talk ifin I can understand it and I really like the way y'all eat, YUM......YUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That sounds small to me for La. Alabama record is 4#12oz, Miss is 3#7oz. For some reason this chart does not list La., but I would have expected it to be in this range.

Bluegill Sunfish Fishing Records

Originally Posted by SeaRay

That sounds small to me for La. Alabama record is 4#12oz, Miss is 3#7oz. For some reason this chart does not list La., but I would have expected it to be in this range.

Bluegill Sunfish Fishing Records

Louisiana record bluegill is 1.63 lbs. ( 1lb. 10oz.) caught in Old River.

I've got a first cousin in Palm Beach, his dad was from up north but his mom from here,my dads sister. When he speaks he don't soud like us, not saying that's a bad thing, just saying.

On the accent subject, I was born and raised in SC. I was out in Oregon fishing with my buddy on the Columbia River. We went into a little deli to grab some lunch to take back to the boat and the lady had trouble understanding me. I asked if she was struggling with my accent. She said, "I'm sorry, Sir. What country are you from?"
Yep, got asked in the good old USA what country I was from.

Chinquapin trees used to grow wild in Louisiana. I remember collecting their sweet chestnut-like mast as a kid. Some sort of blight killed nearly all of the wild trees but I think you can still buy them in nurseries. In the Caddo Indian language, Natchitoches supposedly translates to mean "chinquapin eaters."