In this photo, (May 1969) left to right are me, Uncle Bob, and his son Bubba Hawthorne. The impressive stringer of Bream, Bluegill, and Sunfish we are holding came from a farm pond near Kenbridge. Uncle Bob has since passed away but I am sworn to secrecy to this day. All I can tell you is we did have permission to fish it, and you had to go through two gates in two cow pastures to get to it.....and the thing was loaded for bear! It had Bass, Crappie, and Bream. We caught these during bedding season using another "secret' Uncle Bob taught me. Bream usually will not bite when they are bedding EXCEPT for this one situation. Did your family fish? Did they have favorite ' fishing holes"? We had Gails Pond just above the house, Roy Perginsons Ponds, the Meherrin River at Elderberry Rock, The Nottaway River off #1 and of course "The Dam" or "Buggs Island" "Gordon s Lake"...The Dam could refer to any one of many places, Palmer s Point, Custawilla, Robins Creek, Ebeneezer Creek. I liked "The Dam" because you could catch anything...you just never knew what was moving your cork...Bream, Crappie, Gar fish, Striped Bass, Catfish. It could be anything and any size! Grandma never fished that I remember and she always cooked Navy Beans and "Tater Cakes" (potato pancakes fried in the cast iron pan.....made from leftover mashed potatoes) just in case we got "skunked." That way we were either safe on Supper or they could be saved in the "fridgerator", (refrigerator) for the next days meal...I will give you one good secret though...make about a quarter inch deep slit along the fins on each side of the backbone before battering and frying. When the fish cooks the meat will "curl" along this slit...a gentle pull on the "curl" and the meat will come off in one piece....leaving the pesky bones there. When you are done it will look like a fish skeleton in a cartoon.....