Connecticut River Big Bream
Dec 6, 2020 15:02:31 #
Dudes and Dudette's
Harry from New Hampshire here. I just wanted to share a picture of a Big Bream that i caught in the Connecticut river in late September on my last trip before the weather started turning and I put the boat away. My wife took a picture of it, but I really didn't realize how big this fist was until I was showing this picture to my daughter the other day. I measured my hand from the wrist to the tip of my middle finger and the length is 5 1/2 inches. It's proof that there are some really big fish in the Connecticut river, and next year I'll catch more of them. Merry Christmas to all.
Harry
Harry from New Hampshire here. I just wanted to share a picture of a Big Bream that i caught in the Connecticut river in late September on my last trip before the weather started turning and I put the boat away. My wife took a picture of it, but I really didn't realize how big this fist was until I was showing this picture to my daughter the other day. I measured my hand from the wrist to the tip of my middle finger and the length is 5 1/2 inches. It's proof that there are some really big fish in the Connecticut river, and next year I'll catch more of them. Merry Christmas to all.
Harry
Dec 6, 2020 15:07:29 #
HarryNH wrote:
Dudes and Dudette's br br Harry from New Hampshir... (show quote)
Welcome to the Forum, Harry, Thanks for sharing, and thanks for putting your location down.
Dec 6, 2020 15:17:04 #
Welcome and thanks sharing. There is a pan full of hot butter just waiting for them I hope.
Tight Lines 🎣
Tight Lines 🎣
Dec 6, 2020 15:24:22 #
My Dad always dredged them in a mixture of yellow corn meal and flour - 3/4 corn meal, 1/4 flour, and then deep fried them in Wesson oil with fries and hush puppies. That's how I cooked that big boy and his buddies, and they tasted just as good as they did wat back then. Memories.
Dec 6, 2020 16:04:53 #
Dec 6, 2020 16:48:32 #
I agree. You know, there something that is just satisfying about being able to feed the family and I didn't have to go to the grocery store to do it - talking from a guys standpoint.
Dec 6, 2020 17:05:44 #
Yes Sir, Too big for bait, Guess you had to eat'em! Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 6, 2020 17:12:05 #
Dec 6, 2020 17:15:26 #
Yep! Am afraid so. But when I was a kid, we caught catfish in the Red River by using perch about the size of my hand! It was too much work to try to get bait any other way. Trapping perch in another's pond made the most sense. We paid him with fresh, dressed catfish. Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 6, 2020 18:13:02 #
You fished in teh Red River? Which part of the Red River? You should see what they did to it now.
Dec 6, 2020 18:27:24 #
HarryNH; i suspect there are more than one Red River, the one I fished in is the boundry between Oklahoma and Texas. I fished in the Red at a place, now a ghost town, called Bulcher, which is in the far north west corner of Cooke County, TX. We caught a lot of catfish in the spring time when the river was at flood stage. Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 6, 2020 18:55:35 #
I was just wondering because I was born and raised up in Natchitoches La. That same Red River flowed through Shreveport, down past Natchitoches and Alexandria, and finally joined with the Atchafalaya River and headed to the Gulf of Mexico. An interesting fact is that when I was in the Air Force in basic corpsman training at Sheppard AFB, we were on Bivouac up near the Oklahoma border. The Red River starts up in that area as basically a muddy ditch. Some Sargent pointed that ditch and said it was the Red River, and as I stepped across it I was thinking to myself I just crossed the Red River in one big step. Take care of yourself sir, Merry Christmas, and maybe we'll swap stories sometime.
Harry Hyams
Harry Hyams
Dec 6, 2020 19:35:13 #
I knew you was from somewhere south of the Mason Dixon when you called that thing a bream. But I'm a little surprised you don't call it a perch like rjs does. My daddy was from Alabama and he called em bream. I learned from my Hoosier grandpa that they're bluegills and that's what I call em, but everyone I know in California calls em perch. What ever you call em, they're good bait and good eats.
Dec 6, 2020 19:44:03 #
HarryNH wrote:
Dudes and Dudette's br br Harry from New Hampshir... (show quote)
Nice job Harry, there's lots of big fish in the river. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Dec 6, 2020 19:48:48 #
Yes. I was born and raised in Louisiana. Even though I've been living up north since 1980 all it takes is a little push to get my "southern" going again. I think it was David Allen Coe who said "My long hair just don't cover up my redneck". Fishing seems to do that.
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