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I took my son fishing today. We caught what we refer to as a "mess" of bluegill. For those of you out of the loop, bluegill are part of the sunfish family, or as what we call bream. Pronounced brim. Anyhow, we got home and cleaned them up, and in typical southern fashion, boiled them to a crisp in hot cooking oil. So, for your amusement, I present, a mess of fried bluegill, with protection. Model 686-4 plus. (Sorry for the bad photo, all I had handy was a cheesy camera phone.)

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You never know when you sit down to a bait of fish when the Zombies will attack.

I grew up in South Texas in a small community and had free access to a lot of ranches and farms. As a course I would go to their stock-tanks with a cane pole outfit and catch a lot of "perch" we called them. Used them for trot-line bait.

When I met Yankees later in life they corrected my speech, they were called brim or bream. Or sunfish.

If they were the standard bluegill with the orange belly we called them "sunperch". If they there the regular green and yellow ones found in most stock-tanks we called them "perch".

My Dad had told me one could fry them up as you have done. I never did. We fried up the bass, catfish, crappie, and occasional eel we caught on our trotlines.

Nice lookin' dinner. Nice way to raise a child.
 
We caught quite a few of them last Sunday morning while fishing for crappie. Ended up with a mixed bag for dinner that night, shell crackers, blue gill, crappie and a couple of fileting size cats. Man-O-Man, what a feast.

Class III
 
Brings back memories! Back in my married days, we would go fishing often. Knew a hot spot for huge gills. We would filet them and fry them up and have a pile of homemade coleslaw with them. Doesn't get much better than that!
 
Makes my mouth water! We like them filleted, may be small, but it only takes about a dozen for a "mess" for two. Most fun is catching them on a light weight (4 wt.) fly rod. They are real fighters for their size.
 
H Richard said:
Makes my mouth water! We like them filleted, may be small, but it only takes about a dozen for a "mess" for two. Most fun is catching them on a light weight (4 wt.) fly rod. They are real fighters for their size.
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I like using the B&M cane poles or the old black widow ones, cane poles make a bream fight like a bass, or at least that is what it feels like, they are some feisty little boogers
 
I have filleted them and made Mexican ceviche. They are so thin it doesn't take long for the ;lemon or lime juice to pickle them. I added chopped tomatoes, onion, garlic and jalapenos. Good eats.
 
Looks great! And it appears the gun is properly dressed for the occasion in Spegel's too.

Bob
 
that's a mess of fish....love bream...love to catch 'em and eat 'em...
aggressive little boogers, if they got to be 15 lbs or so it wouldn't be safe to get in the water around here....
 
Yep, we eat the heck out of gills too. We like to fillet them, give them a nice breading and drop them in the hot oil for a short dance. Delicious with home made frys and cole claw...don't forget the rye bread.

spricks
 
Firehouse,

Thanks for the memories...I can almost smell them here in Minnesota. It has been 19 years since dad passed and I have been fishing 3 times since. We used to go 20 to 30 hours a week when he was still with us. Besides catching largemouth bass and northern pike, the most fun we ever had fishing was fishing with a fly rod with letter line for sunfish. I think it was "D", how that converts to the numbers used now, I don't know. He used a Herter's which I now possess with an automatic reel two pound leader and a small dry fly that looked like a little bumblebee. When I was 10 years old I saved my paper route money and went to the Coast-to-Coast Hardware Store and for $6.98 brought home a split bamboo fly rod. I did not have enough money for a reel or line though. When dad came home I got a royal chewing out for not getting a fiberglass one! He took me back downtown to see Mr. Hunte and exchange it for one of his liking. C to C special...same price 9 footer. My birthday was a week away...you guessed it. An automatic fly reel and floating courtland 333 level line and a little barbed eye to attach the leader to. Dad passed in 1991 in February. The last time I went fishing sunnies with him I broke that fly rod. I have not been since, now at 57 years of age maybe it is time to get another one and see if I can still operate it and get some of those wonderful little treats in my frypan.

I sure do miss fishin' with dad, as well as the results of our labors.

Thanks again!
Hairy
 
We been eating Crappie for the past three or four weeks, they are biting good here. You fixed up a real good mess of good eating fish. Get out the TUMS and ZANTAC and eat till you bust. Can't beat that for good food.
 
Thanks for the great replies folks. I talked my Dad into coming up on Sunday, and he and I along with my son will be headed back out to try them again. The place we caught those out of yesterday and will be going back to tomorrow is a private farm pond that one of my coworkers owns. It's about a 5 acre pond stocked with bass, bream, crappie, shellcracker and catfish. I'll get some pics tomorrow of the pond and us in action. Happy Easter to everyone!
 
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