Wifey and I pea-layed a few pig bream at Chicot las week goofing around, Threw back plenty of the smaller ones. These are for our neighborhood fish fry cooked southern style w/bones fins and skin minus the scales, head, insides IYKYK.
I didn't know cooking bream like that was called " southern style " ,, I just thought that was the way you cooked them , I sure do love a good mess of Bream ,, actually one of my favorite type of fish ,, and catfish . Been yrs back ,, used to sit on the banks of an ole black water creek ,, caught a lot of bream , perch ,, cats ,, this day ,, we were mainly just catching a few small bream and perch. We'd catch'em ,, and throw'em back ,, there's was a couple of older black women sitting on the bank a little ways down from us ,, asked what we were throwing back,, we said , just these little bream and perch ,,, they said if we didn't want them we throw them in their bucket ,,, we said yes ma'am,, we surely would. A little later , I asked what they were gonna do with them , as they were so small . They said they would , gut'em ,, take off the heads , and knock a few scales off of'em ,, and make fish patties . Got to thinking , that was a damned good idea ,, told them I'd surely like to come by for supper ,,, they just laughed ,,
Fish patties? new one on me as far as small bream go but I never question a black lady about how she cooks or why
I'm in Alabama and I want my fish dead, skinned, beheaded, gutted, dismembered, rolled in cornmeal, and fried! I'm pretty insistent about that particular order, otherwise things get messy!
Sadly, We don't have the Pan fish like you fellers down south, Not that I'm complaining any, but Besides Blue Gill, Cat Fish, and small mouths that are so full of bugs it ain't worth the effort, We do have Steal Head and Salmon, and not those iddy biddy ones, were talkin 30 plus pounders that might as well be Orcas on a #5 fly rod! This guy was an hour and a half fight, he ran me 300 feet of line, far into my backing, but I managed to land him non the less!
Very nice Paw, Nothing like getting out in nature and wetting a line and only thinking about the line and nothing else, Carry on!
Bream and perch with a bunch of cane poles and half as many kids watching them make a great day. We just build a fire, jam a stick down it's throat, and burn the skin off. Then flake off the meat into a pile. Add butter, salt, pepper, and a little Trappey's and it is amazing.
Sitting back on the riverbank ,, by the campfire ,, cooking up them freshly caught ,, somehow made them taste better than pan fried at home in the kitchen .
A buddy of mine down in GA, sent me a Pic of a bunch of Crappie he caught in a small lake today ,, said he got about 20 or so , plus a couple of Bass in about 1 1/2 hours ,, Dammit man ,, I need to refocus my priorities ,,,
