it is true.....

Ever heard the saying,"Even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then".Attachment 124698THEY STARTED SMALL.Attachment 124699I STARTED TO FEEL BETTER AFTER THIS ONE.Attachment 124700OH....THAT'S WHAT A BREAM LOOKS LIKE....Attachment 124701Count them 5....crickets 18 to 24 inches under slip cork....thanks to slip cork....phillips canal....friday 5-3-13...6 pm and i fished the solunar table....And as promised....wait i forgot, this pic is of them waiting to meet their maker... now as promised each individual picture...Attachment 124702big daddy,Attachment 124703,Attachment 124704check out the stripes,Attachment 124705,and last but not leastAttachment 124706Sacs may have been in places I did not want to be but i did start out with shiners. Once I found this hole I stayed and did try shiners at this one spot in earnest but no luck in the sac dept. Apparently sacs and bream do not live together. Thanks for looking and sharing in my small but meaningful accomplishment and I get confidence from this site, so thanks...

and worms also...crickets go quick with small thieves...

Way to go Tal :) Nice little mess of bream. Congrats and thanks for the report and pics.

Way to go vet.

Them some nice fish.

Way to go bream!!Awesome job of catching and counting:rolleyes: them, Tal. As I told someone else last year, you can't catch them till they bite. Once you get the feel for the bite, it gets better and better. Now. you eat dat !!! By the way, I think the striped fish was a tiger fan !! :)

:ThumbsUp Way to go Tal. I see you had the filet knife ready to go. Nice little mess of bream. When you parked the boat last night, were the escaped crickets chirping in there? I know the sound well. Even with the little ones, it's fun to jerk them. Bet it was rough with that cold wind. Love the pictures, thanks for posting.

Nice catch and thanks for the pics,,, Oh how we love pics :ThumbsUp

Was making plans all week to be puttin a whoopin on a mess of bream saturday but lo and behold ole man coldfront changed those plans so instead i spent the day stripping cabinets :Doh:

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:ThumbsUp Way to go Tal. I see you had the filet knife ready to go. Nice little mess of bream. When you parked the boat last night, were the escaped crickets chirping in there? I know the sound well. Even with the little ones, it's fun to jerk them. Bet it was rough with that cold wind. Love the pictures, thanks for posting.

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wind in phillips was blocked well and an all these fish were bunched up in one spot...so I was warm and had very little wind to fight.

You go, Vet! Those patassa will fry up nicely. Wish I could have been doing what you were doing, but I was in Natchitoches today talking about it. And I'd much rather do it than talk about it!
Got to meet T-Bone, though, so that helped make the day very enjoyable!
Keep up the good work (ie "Catch a bunch!").
Pete

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:ThumbsUp Way to go Tal. I see you had the filet knife ready to go. Nice little mess of bream. When you parked the boat last night, were the escaped crickets chirping in there? I know the sound well. Even with the little ones, it's fun to jerk them. Bet it was rough with that cold wind. Love the pictures, thanks for posting.

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I was getting the boat ready for another trip in the am and found 1 very lonely and quiet cricket in the cricket box...LOL

by the way, do these normally get filleted or scale and gut or just personal preference? I filleted them because of time constraints and as you all know, I am in need of practice and bream don't seem easy to filet.:dono

I like them both ways but I prefer bream scaled and cooked whole.

when I was cleaning them last night I felt the same way.

that's awesome vet.....man, one of those is a monster......you got it now.......thanks for the report.....

Now that is what it is all about! Thanks for the pictures! Man I love those big blue gills!

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Way to go bream!!Awesome job of catching and counting:rolleyes: them, Tal. As I told someone else last year, you can't catch them till they bite. Once you get the feel for the bite, it gets better and better. Now. you eat dat !!! By the way, I think the striped fish was a tiger fan !! :)

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Most defiantly a Tiger fan!

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Now that is what it is all about! Thanks for the pictures! Man I love those big blue gills!

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Now if you could just catch some... :hatchet:

:biggrin Pete

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I like them both ways but I prefer bream scaled and cooked whole.

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I prefer someone else to clean my bream :ThumbsUp

My dad had a unique method and sometimes I copy it, but mostly I filet if they are large enough. Anyway he would scale the fish and cut off the head. Then he would filet off one side. He prefered on the bone, momma prefered filet. :twocents

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My dad had a unique method and sometimes I copy it, but mostly I filet if they are large enough. Anyway he would scale the fish and cut off the head. Then he would filet off one side. He prefered on the bone, momma prefered filet. :twocents

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opposites always attract..

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Now if you could just catch some... :hatchet:

:biggrin Pete

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yeah...the elusive sac a lait..... i will get them....

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My dad had a unique method and sometimes I copy it, but mostly I filet if they are large enough. Anyway he would scale the fish and cut off the head. Then he would filet off one side. He prefered on the bone, momma prefered filet. :twocents

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lol, makin everyone happy :Rofl

Filet all of them my family is spoiled and hate the bones but I like to nibble the fins after they are fried, I got that from my father. I laugh when company comes over and they see all those little filets and they say you gonna fry all those little filets. Minutes later I can't keep up with the batches they are eating them as fast as I can fry them up. The left overs usually consist of the bigger filets which my wife used to make a fish salad for lunch the next day.

Way to go vet! Working you way up to using both hands to count. Don't worry, I usually only need one hand to count also.

nice mess:highfive that should make you
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY:peacesmile

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Ever heard the saying,"Even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then".THEY STARTED SMALL.Attachment 124699

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Any thoughts on the id of this little guy? Redspotted sunfish? Stumpknocker?:popcorn

This is actually a pumpkinseed

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Any thoughts on the id of this little guy? Redspotted sunfish? Stumpknocker?:popcorn

This is actually a pumpkinseed

rotfl

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oh no........ please not another fish id "discussion"

That's funny :popcorn. Duck Butter you would know, as you know your fish. I trust your ID.