84 yesterday mornin!

[T.C.]

got 84 before lunch time. Most were coppernose with a few shellcrackers thrown in. all caught fishing beds with freshwater mussels.

[wvsportsman]

WTG, you had some filleting to do there but they'll fry up real good.

[wilbur]

I cant believe they are still on the beds? Why is that? but nice catch anyway.

[T.C.]

I have always thought that as long as the water temp is warm that gills/crackers bed. Its hott as all get out down here so maybe thats why. I caught bedding bream last year through the end of september. This was easy pickings considering the lake we fished was super clear and all beds were visible, so all we had to do was back off of em and drag a grass shrimp through the bed. ALL fish were males and the reason i know is b/c they were ALL peeing when we got em in the boat. I cleaned my half and there was zilch with eggs in em......kinda starange. my guess is that the females just got done layin eggs and the males are standing guard.........maybe im wrong but thats all i can come up with, anyone else ever had that happen before?

[keyser_soze]

You mention fileting the bream.... I either A) am not a good enough fish cleaner to get enough off a bream to filet it, B) am not catching big enough bream or C) think you waste to much meat to filet a bream. So I scale them, and cut the heads off, and gut them, then fry em up whole. Do y'all not do that?

[T.C.]

You mention fileting the bream.... I either A) am not a good enough fish cleaner to get enough off a bream to filet it, B) am not catching big enough bream or C) think you waste to much meat to filet a bream. So I scale them, and cut the heads off, and gut them, then fry em up whole. Do y'all not do that?

I fillet some and scale some, just depends on how if feeling that day. If im tired i will bust out the electric knife and fillet em to save time

[Bronson]

Great catch, especially for this time of year. May motivate a few of us to give them a try in the summer months. Thanks for sharing.

[jaywill]

Now that's what i'm talkin bout !!!

[Fatman]

Nice haul but it has to be a heck of a chore cleaning all those up.

[Blackhawk19]

Nice catch, about time for a report on how they tasted Thumbs Up