Fishing question

"Tightwad" wrote in message
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Stinkweed wrote:

"Tightwad" wrote in message
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I catch and release. If a fish is hooked deep or bleeding I keep it to
eat.
I catch Bream and Bass, in the weedbeds, on top by the dozens, even a
more than a hundred on occassion. There is no way I could justify keep
them all.


I have not heard of Bream, where are you from?
Bream are known as Sunfish , Blugills, etc. This is on the tennessee River
System. These fish are all over North America so I assume you are from
elsewhere.

OK, just never heard of them called that I guess. Yes, the Bluegills and
Sunfish do put up a great fight, you think "boy do I have a whopper this
time" only to find it is a Bluegill. I find Perch fun to catch too. I
would like to catch a Big Northern one day, but we will have to get a more
portable boat to fish in another lake. All we have right now is a pontoon.
It is already pulled out for the winter now. :-(

Stinkweed wrote:


I have not heard of Bream, where are you from?

Almost everywhere in the US, they are great "little" pan fish, pound for
pound, out fighting everything, they are easy to catch and most kids
first fishing experience is catching them, they hit worms, and other
small insects . They are one of the best tasting fish in US waters




--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Rodney" wrote in message
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Stinkweed wrote:


I have not heard of Bream, where are you from?

Almost everywhere in the US, they are great "little" pan fish, pound for
pound, out fighting everything, they are easy to catch and most kids first
fishing experience is catching them, they hit worms, and other small
insects . They are one of the best tasting fish in US waters




--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

I guess our last fish fry was Bream then, the Bluegill.

Stinkweed wrote:
"Rodney" wrote in message
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Stinkweed wrote:

I guess our last fish fry was Bream then, the Bluegill.


Yep, it covers a dozen or so related species

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Stinkweed" wrote in message
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"Tightwad" wrote in message
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I catch and release. If a fish is hooked deep or bleeding I keep it to
eat.
I catch Bream and Bass, in the weedbeds, on top by the dozens, even a
more than a hundred on occassion. There is no way I could justify keep
them all.

I have not heard of Bream, where are you from?



Down here in the South we have tons of Bream, back where I am originally
from (Maryland) we called them Spot.

"Jeff" wrote in message
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"Stinkweed" wrote in message
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"Tightwad" wrote in message
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I catch and release. If a fish is hooked deep or bleeding I keep it to
eat.
I catch Bream and Bass, in the weedbeds, on top by the dozens, even a
more than a hundred on occassion. There is no way I could justify keep
them all.

I have not heard of Bream, where are you from?



Down here in the South we have tons of Bream, back where I am originally
from (Maryland) we called them Spot.


I'm not familiar with Spot either. We just call a Bluegill a Bluegill and a
Sunfish a Sunfish. Seems like I might have heard them refered to as Panfish
though.

I think Sunfish covers it. I'm not anything on Fish Biology.
We have Red Ear Sunfish, Pumpkin Seeds, Shell Crackers and several other
distinctively different ones. The Shell Crackers are the largest,
usually, sometimes weighing over 1 1/2 lb.
You can catch a bit of everything that swims in the weed beds.
I've caught many many Bass up to six pounds, Catfish, Crappie, White
Bass, and Hybrid Bass and Stiped Bass even a few Sauger.
I had such a high pressure job, that every evening I would go to the
weedbed with Poppers and catch countless fish.

Some fish I keep. But I always pinch the barb in my flys when i fly
fish,
Mike

Stinkweed wrote:

How do you all feel about fish and release. I love to fish, but I don't
like to eat the fish so they are released, when I mention this some people
feels that it is not a nice thing to do. You should fish to eat or not fish
at all. I'm just curious as to what the opinion of this group is.

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