And yes, I use a spoon to scale fish.

 

I thought my family were the only ones that did that. I swear every time you post something it reminds me of home.

 

That is one fine looking bowl of fish right there.

And if you hear banjo music in the background it's just me drinking beer and watching.

 

You got a Purdy mouth

 

Damn Bill. Great job. At the end of the day is the simple things that make the best memories.

 

Awesome.

As for the taste I hsd a buddy swear they were nasty and only poor people ate them. I grew up eating them (and bass and catfish and anything else I caught).

He and I got hung in a mess of crappie one day and I caught one giant sunfish. He started his crap again when we got back I threw the bream fillet in his bag with the crappie. A couple of days later when he started telling me how good the fish was I told him and then asked him of he coukd tell. He keeps them now too.

 

Big damn bream Bill. Nice

 

I waiting for somebody to jump in and ask how much a "mess" is.

 

Bout "that many"

 

Everybody knows that most of the time a mess refers to collards or beans.

 

Or whatever it was that either of my two young males got into over the weekend.

 

Nice looking bird! Nice mess of fish, too!

I'm jealous.

 

Nice looking bird!

Uhhhhhhm what bird? Am I going blind?

 

Every single time you post these threads I remind myself that we are kindred spirits.

 

Except he has way more hair than you do.

 

Nice looking mess of fish.

 

And when a big man says he has a mess of something, its always a lot more.

 

Got my stomach growling already this morning. Used to live on a small lake and ate bream pretty regular. Never acquired a taste for bass as they were too fishy for me out of warm water, but bream was just right. Looks great.

 

Pretty work.

 

Nice. I have ate a lot of bream and bass. Bass filet is the way to go.

 

I've been out 3 times on a lake and once on the river, not much luck with crappie on beetle spins or jigs, only caught a few. May have to break the crickets and brim busters out. Water has been high around here, that's not helping. I'm waiting on the water temp to hit 70 in the water way, I love eating salt water fish a little more.

 

I could lie and say that we'll go the healthy route and bake or grill some of them, but, as you can tell from the pictures with me in them, you know darned we'll we are gonna fry em and eat em with hush-puppies and slaw.

You would have liked my father. I baked some fish one time. Daddy was rather put out, and though he wasn't a learned man, he had a rather rudimentary understanding of the written word. He held his finger in the air and said:
"Jesus saith unto them, bring of the fish you have now caught, and we will FRY them!"

I was thinking about when the bedding bream may start this year. Guess I got my answer. Course I have caught them staging in schools like that just before they went on the beds. Nice mess of fish.
I like bream better than crappie. I rather catch them on a flyrod on the beds though.

 

I was thinking about when the bedding bream may start this year. Guess I got my answer. Course I have caught them staging in schools like that just before they went on the beds. Nice mess of fish.

Not bedding yet. They are kinda shcooled-up here. I think an unusually warm start to spring has them a little discombobulated.

 

I am not into many battered, fried foods, but a little beer batter, some hot oil and a 6 pack to wash them down with sure sounds good to me. Fried panfish of any type is damn tastey. Nice job.

Us ex-Yankees do that with yellow perch. Up North there are some big ass perch that make great fried fish sandwiches and meals.

 

Finally. Somebody got around to talking about cornmeal overcoats for them fish.[emoji41]

 

No batter for this southern boy, too thick. House Autry fish breader and a Ziploc bags. Catch....and release them over some hot oil.

 

House Autry fish breader

Darn right.

 

Couple titty bream in that mess......

 

Dang few people know what a titty bream is!