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I am in the Pinson area and noticed them moving in....

Before they actually bed, I can usally find them around structure.... Not so my christmas trees, but around submerged logs, rocks, etc. My...

Have you tried to find a good sculling paddle lately?

You just don't see that many around anymore.

The paddle is quieter than my trolling motor and I have more delicate control of the boat......

I prefer #8 tru-turns... I miss very few fish and it seems that it hooks up in the same place, (top of the mouth) every time.

Oscar

Nice Cracker...

Oscar

Oddly enough, the gills are not as blue as the ones I generally catch.

I see some color variation in the ones I catch, but I can honestly say I have never seen one where the whole fish was blue...

I often pick them up while trolling for crappie using small crank baits.

Bream will hit just about anything from my experience.

Oscar

Any time I can take my kids, I go...

Where I am from, usually the fish bite nice when the front is moving through... Not so good behind the front.

Oscar

The females around here are way less colorful, (almost silver comparetively), are generally smaller, and have smaller ears.

The meat is so delicate that I would scale them, cut the heads off and cutt them, otherwise you just run the risk of them falling apart on the grill.

Use a no stick spray or something to keep them...

I am sure it depends alot on the body of water. However, I just recently had a biologest tell me in reference to a 200 acre lake, he didn't care what we did, short of draining the lake, we were not...

I am stuck on crickets.. Less mess than worms.

Oscar

I am from different area as well, but I can tell you as long as the weather is consistent, I would expect there to be fish there.

Oscar

I have noticed them beginning to move in the upper 60's and low 70's.

The weather was weird here in B'ham Saturday (dropped off cool Friday night) and really seemed to turn the fish off. On the...

Now you are hooked :D Nice Catch!!

I use a #8 Aberdeen Tru-turn hook with crickets.

Works for me.

Oscar

$4 a hundred in Birmingham.

Although at this time of year I order them by the box of a thousand for 13.95 plus shipping from fluker farms.

You can do a search on line for cricket boxes..
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I have never actually caught any of these, but someone was nice enough to give me a mess at a public pier on the gulf several years ago.

Not knowing any better, I filleted them, soaked them in a...

I caught 62 Saturday Morning. With numbers like that, you can't help but fillet.

Oscar

I fillet mine with an electric knife.

I caught 57 last night and it took me just under an hour to fillet them all.

Sometimes I will scrape a few to bake or throw on the grille, but if I am...

Nice catch.... I love the coloration of those red ears...

John

I use #8 hooks which is very near the size of the crickets. I generally just hook them through the tails and use very light tackle so as the fish doesn't notice the weight. In general, this...

In areas where they are over populated, they are all keepers.

Otherwise, if I can fillet it with an electric knife, I keep it.

Oscar

I was out on the water for about an hour and a half last night.

I got a mixed bag of goodies.

4 crappie, 9 bluegill, and 1 bass.

Needless to say, with the weather, and the time of year, the...

shhh, Orange Beach, Alabama.... Don't let the secret out.

Oscar

I use a #8 tru-turn with a bb shot and 3lb or 2lb test line.

The lighter I can reasonably make the rig, the bigger the fish seem to be.

Oscar

Usually the shell crackers will bed first. It seems like I always find them on bed a week or two before the bluegills sometime around the first of May.

If they are not bedding and you are familar...

The biologist I have talked to have always told me there is nothing you can really do to hurt bream populations.

I mostly fish a 200 acre lake and we (community) have been advised to keep...

When I was a kid we would use muscles from the river. That always worked really well.

Unfortunately, with pollution, draught and what not, there aren't near as many large muscles around as there...

Great catch. The bream will be on here in about two or three weeks. I can't wait.

Oscar

Bluegill in general have a very different coloration and body shape . Shell crackers are less rounded.

Also, the width (across the shoulders) of shell crackers tends to be thicker.
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