On Sep 27, 9:23 am, "Bob La Londe" wrote:
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On Sep 27, 9:01 am, "Bob La Londe" wrote:
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OK, here is the deal. I live on a lake and feed the bream off of my
pier, mostly coppernose and blue gill. They are really nice size and
I would like to get in the habit of catching a few for supper each
day, but need to find a simple way to cook them.

Each day? You do that every day and they population of catchable bream
will
be dramatically reduced pretty quick.

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Really? Apparently you haven't had much exposure to bream in southern
lakes. The lake is 825 acres and was originally stocked with 250,000
coppernose about 15 years ago. When the feeder goes off it looks like
parana.

I thought about that for a minute, but then considered that most of those
will be pretty small fish. Not catchable size friers. You have already
indicated you are not getting much meat off those you are filleting.

It is just that unlike crappie, bream just don't yield as much meat
when filleted, even when you can barely hold them in one hand. Not to
mention that leaving the bone in bream for some reason adds to the
flavor.


No, I don't think there is any danger of reducing their numbers if the
population of large mouth bass and crappie haven't had any effect on
them.

Ok. People used to say that about bass to. I was tryng to imply that you
might want to consider once or twice a week instead of everyday. But hey,
you can try it and find out. I could certainly be wrong. Also, check with
local DFG to make sure there are no consumption advisories in your area
before going on a daily diet of fresh caught fish.


I think the concesus on bream is that overpopulation is always a
threat.

Generally speaking, the only places that have consumption advisories
in the area are lakes that were exposed to DDT when it was used.

Got any suggestions about how to grill the critters?