got 84 before lunch time. Most were coppernose with a few shellcrackers thrown in. all caught fishing beds with freshwater mussels.
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got 84 before lunch time. Most were coppernose with a few shellcrackers thrown in. all caught fishing beds with freshwater mussels.
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WTG, you had some filleting to do there but they'll fry up real good.
I cant believe they are still on the beds? Why is that? but nice catch anyway.
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?
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 timeQuote:
Originally Posted by keyser_soze
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.
Now that's what i'm talkin bout !!!
Nice haul but it has to be a heck of a chore cleaning all those up.
Nice catch, about time for a report on how they tasted Thumbs Up
That's a great looking mess. Those look just like the males we catch at the spawn here in East Tennessee and just like yours, you'd better point them away from you when you grab them as they pee all over the place!
sweeeeeeetThumbs Up
Good looking box of fish. Would like to get on them, but with 104+ degrees with nearly 100% humidity just can't make myself go.
I always filet them. Electric knife. Easy after the learning curve.
just add oil,egg and flour......repeat lol
and cayenne peper!Quote:
Originally Posted by JO2003
Oh yeah, and lots of scaling going down. Hands ClappingQuote:
Originally Posted by wvsportsman
Ya'll wore 'em out! Congrats.
those tasty gills are worth the work!
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Originally Posted by keyser_soze
I always filet my gills. I try to only keep the ones that are big enough to filet. Just a personal liking. I also hate picking through bones. And you can't make a fish sandwich frying them whole!Thumbs Up
Oh yeah, NICE CATCH!
what is a "keeper" size down there &/or for you?
bigger than my hand. Prob the smallest one we kept was 8" and the biggest ones were around 11". Most were around 9".
Nice catch. How do you go about catching grass shrimp? I see alot of them in fishes bellies but never see them in the water. No grass around the edges either. Where do I look to find 'em and how do you catch 'em? Congrats on a nice haul!Thumbs Up
I have dipped a few with a bait net in the grass around the edges of the lake. Its more work to me than its worth b/c you have to sift through all the grass and pick em out one by one. I buy mine at a bait shop now. They are $8 for a cup, kinda pricey but well worth it. I never heard of em till i moved down to Florida, never heard anyone mention em back home in SC, if you find em they are like crack to bream.
i know that it is late but nice catch
Thanks Ranger
Way to stick it to them. I smell a nice fish fry coming.
Now that is sweet!!
Already gave em the grease bath....these babies are loooong gone now ship, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
84 degrees? Now that's just not nice... You got room for all of us down there?
lol at the time these fish were caught i was wishing it was 84 gedrees, more like over 100 degrees, lol.
Congrats on the catch SYG.
thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by hollidas
Dang sweet and hate you are down in ol warm FLA and suffering from all that warm weather and beddin bream. Really wish you were here where the weather was 22 degrees 2 days ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!BIGUN
I'm so envious right now :p