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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

James, where I grew up in the South;  Bluegill and Bream are the same thing 
(as is Sunfish), just different names.  What is your difference? ...bobford


p.s. my grandfather called some bass "green trout"

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fishing
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 10:56 AM
> > >Giving this more thought, do you ever catch walleye
> or other species?
> 
> On trotlines or in general?
> 
> Trotlines are mainly catfish with some bass from time to
> time and some 
> turtles ... and carp.  We eat the turtles.  We don't
> eat the carp.
> 
> They stocked the lakes here with some sort of hybrid trout
> and walleye.  The 
> trout don't taste good.  Just as well because you have
> to have a special stamp 
> for them and I don't (have it).  But the walleye are
> magnificient, one of the 
> best fish you can eat.  And hard to catch.   
> 
> Then there are small mouth, large mouth, black and white
> bass.  White bass 
> are supposed to be trash fish like carp, but I like them
> fine.  Also the pan 
> fish: bluegill, redeye, bream, and crapie.  Bream are rare
> here, crapie and 
> bluegill are plentiful.  All those are caught with hook and
> line.
> 
> In the creeks (and here a creek can mean anything up to
> 25' across) have 
> brown trout and brook trout as well as chub, suckers, and
> horny-heads.  All good 
> but full fo bones so they are better processed and eaten
> bones and all.
> 
> We have both blue catfish and channel catfish with an
> occasional yellow 
> catfish.  All are magnificient to eat.  There are also
> freshwater mussels in the 
> rivers, but you have to harvest them only in rivers and
> streams that don't have 
> industry upstream.  We have a few of those left.   Round
> that out with some 
> crawdads and you have our mountain seafood.
> 
> I think it was Lynn that once raised those indoor prawns. 
> I've looked into 
> that.  I've got a good place for it and they are
> available on the 'fish wagon' 
> that comes by the feed store periodically.  If I got into
> that, they wouldn't 
> be for sale, though, like the Walrus and the Carpenter,
> I'd eat every one.<BR><BR><BR>
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