Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Feeding Bluegill a natural diet

My grandmother would have my hide if she knew I ever filleted a fish. She preferred them scaled, beheaded, guts removed. Roll in flour with some pepper and a bit of salt. Fry in Crisco in a cast iron skillet. Nothing left on the plate but the bones and fins. She'd eat the crispy tail, and thought any eggs in the fish were a delicacy (she's the one that got me eating them).

She liked to scale fish with a grapefruit spoon. The teeth on the end helped get under the scales near the fins.

Any BG 5" and up was to be kept or I caught hell for letting them go. She passed away in 1998 at 99 years young.

Ken, she was a great gardener, and ALWAYS had flowers and veggies. When I helped clean out her basement I found powdered DDT, powdered Rotenone, there was asbestos wrapped on the pipes in the basement, and the area betwen the 1st and 2nd floor was insulated with vermiculite, and it was also poured into the walls where they could. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all those things are good. She and her husband (my grandfather who passed away in 1968) always took care to use long sleeve garments when spraying, gloves and dust masks. She ended up with skin cancer in her later years, and had to take precautions when going out in the sun. But, she didn't let that slow her down a bit. She lived in the house next door to us, and when I was living at home I had to get outside after a snowfall at first light or she'd be out there shoveling. Dad had to do the same thing after I moved out, even during the winter of 1997/1998.