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[BarryBobPosthole]

Birddog and I spent the day battling the wind on a big Y shaped body of water we call ‘The Y’. We’re clever like that.

We didn’t turn a lot of fish but we did get a few monster crappies that we kind of knew existed there but have never ever really tried to dial them in. That’s on our list this spring.

I invited two of them home for dinner. Man they are like ambrosia. I’d love to do a side by side taste test with some real fish eaters of crappie vs walleye. It’d be close.
These were in the grease within three hours of their last swim.

Other than a stiff south wind, it was a grand day. Stuff is starting to act like its gonna bust o9ut here pretty soon around here.
BKB

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[Chicken Dinner]

Nice feesh!


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[quercus alba]

Funny you posted this. I’m thawing out some white perch and bream for lunch tomorrow.

[Thumper]

Shouldn’t this be posted in the fishing forum?

No wait!! Do we even HAVE a fishing forum?

[HideHunter]

Most everything still has ice too thin to walk on and too thick to throw a lure through.. Luckily, the river runs 100 yards out my back door.. ;)

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[quercus alba]

Potato salad and fried carp, now that's not something you see on your plate every day. I suspect cold weather carp out of deep water would be pretty tasty, hot weather shallow muddy lake carp not so much

[HideHunter]

You're pretty much right on, WO.. Carp out of the river here are usually pretty decent year round.. "Slough carp", as we call them.. nasty.. I've fed "carp steak" to a number of sons of the south.. Most won't believe it's really carp.. Carp fries are still fairly common up here.. Last one I helped with - we did 650#.

[BarryBobPosthole]

We have a lake just east of here, Lake Eucha, or ‘Oochee’, where a bunch of them gather up in April and gig rough fish at night in some godawful boat contraptions, and have a huge fish fry. I’ve met some of the charaters who do it. They’re an interesting bunch. Jonboats with big jet outdrive motors, sissy bars and spotlights mounted on the front, and they riun in the shallow shoals at the upper end of the lake flat out spotlighting and chasing fish. Redhorse mainly I think.
They’re a sight.
BKB

[Thumper]

You guys are gonna get Foo all excited. That’s is, if he ever checks in here anymore.

[Big Skyz]

Those are some nice slabs BBP!

[BarryBobPosthole]

They were just enough. Fed the three of us with a couple pieces left over for breakfast.

BKB

[johnboy]

One of the things I really miss living on the coast is ice fishing. This time of year would be prime for whitefish, perch and pike. How do you deal with the bones in carp. Gotta thing about bones in fish. One bone and I'm done. Must be a hoot dragging those footballs through a hole in the ice though.

[quercus alba]

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[BarryBobPosthole]

Tails on is good. Tater chips.

BKB