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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > > Giving this more thought, do you ever catch walleye or other species?
>
> On trotlines or in general?

Trotlines


> 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.

Yeah, that is basically what he would catch.  I just wondered about 
walleyes because they are deep/cold water fish and they like those deep 
mountain lakes.


> 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.   

And good fighters!


> 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.

I like all of those fish..but wait..here, a bluegill is a type of 
bream...bream being sunfish because they like the shallows and the 
warmth of the sun I think..  Bluegills are larger than the average 
bream, but not as large usually as a shellcracker or pumpkinseed or 
other kinds of sunfish.  They are usually the size of your hand-good 
eating size, very sweet meat.

One of my neighbors keeps crawdads in her aquarium.  They are growing. 
It has given me the idea that maybe I should go down to the creek and 
turn over some rocks to catch some crawdads, bring them home, grow them 
up big and then have a feast!

Bev

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