Author Topic: Eating Bass? (Read 58697 times)

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 10, 2006, 11:51 AM »

See. I told you guys they were good

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 10, 2006, 12:23 PM »

It doesn't matter I guess, I rarely eat them anyway. I prefer sunfish and walleyes

Lobes · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 12, 2006, 05:06 PM »

Quote from: PIKEGUY on Feb 10, 2006, 12:23 PM

It doesn't matter I guess, I rarely eat them anyway. I prefer sunfish and walleyes

Hard to beat bluegills and walleyes but smallmouth bass 18" and smaller are excellent filleted.

hali-man · « **Reply #33 on:** Oct 02, 2006, 06:46 PM »

Quote from: Lobes on Feb 12, 2006, 05:06 PM

Hard to beat bluegills and walleyes but smallmouth bass 18" and smaller are excellent filleted.

I'll admit that I eat bass.

Van_Cleaver · « **Reply #34 on:** Oct 02, 2006, 07:21 PM »

I don't mind people eating bass; but it kind of irks me when someone has a trophy (6 lbs or up) lying next to a pile of perch and blue gills. It's legal, so it's everyones right, but sometimes you wonder if its not that old macho thing:"My piles bigger than yours, etc." For the record, winter caught bass in the lower sizes taste OK, when taken from good, clean, lakes; but give me perch and gills any day, and I will keep tossing back the bass to get bigger still.

big big rdg · « **Reply #35 on:** Oct 02, 2006, 10:16 PM »

Quote from: Van_Cleaver on Oct 02, 2006, 07:21 PM

I don't mind people eating bass; but it kind of irks me when someone has a trophy (6 lbs or up) lying next to a pile of perch and blue gills. It's legal, so it's everyones right, but sometimes you wonder if its not that old macho thing:"My piles bigger than yours, etc." For the record, winter caught bass in the lower sizes taste OK, when taken from good, clean, lakes; but give me perch and gills any day, and I will keep tossing back the bass to get bigger still.

I feel the same way, if you are gonna eat them try to take the smaller ones and let the breeders go.

ifishhi · « **Reply #36 on:** Oct 03, 2006, 04:42 PM »

i don't eat them , but they look good on the wall

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #37 on:** Oct 04, 2006, 07:50 AM »

Quote from: crappie_boy on Oct 03, 2006, 04:47 PM

that is a waste you aint coning git on meat off a mount

What?

Lindz · « **Reply #38 on:** Oct 04, 2006, 08:26 AM »

Quote from: PIKEGUY on Oct 04, 2006, 07:50 AM

What?

Quote from: crappie_boy on Oct 03, 2006, 04:47 PM

that is a waste you aint coning git on meat off a mount

I think he said if you mount the meat you kan eat the mount.

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #39 on:** Oct 04, 2006, 08:32 AM »

Quote from: Lindz on Oct 04, 2006, 08:26 AM

I think he said if you mount the meat you kan eat the mount.

Oh. Yeah, makes sense. Same with mounting a pheasant or duck I guess.

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #40 on:** Oct 04, 2006, 03:13 PM »

Quote from: crappie_boy on Oct 04, 2006, 01:15 PM

that what fish are for eating not puting on the wall

Don't you have a pic up with a pheasant though? It's kinda the same thing. $:-\$

I know what you're saying though, with fish you could have a replica made and eat the fish...or release it. Most fish that are big enough for the wall aren't that good to eat anyways

Mainedog · « **Reply #41 on:** Oct 04, 2006, 08:40 PM »

My buddy and I were into white perch and small smallmouth in a clear lake one time.
He didn't like unhooking fish and everything that he caught wound up in livewell (errr...
in the cooler). Later that night when we had our fish fry, white perch and smallmouth....
I wound up liking the smallies a bit more. Must have been all the fresh air, Wesson corn oil,
beer batter, beer, etc.

The only other time I ate a bass, I felt bad immediately after I started cleaning him. I should have had the camera on the boat and then put him back. He was a bit mealy. He was a very old fish for that lake. I write him, but it was probably a her. Lord forgive, I killed a cow!

When I'm on the ice, I often put the real big perch back...not. Put'em back in my bucket that is.
There are too many darn perch in the salmon lake I fish anyway!

To each his (her) own. I just don't like to see wasted fish. If you keep it, then eat it. Make it's life mean something.

Okay....let me have it. I'm ready.

PIKEGUY · « **Reply #42 on:** Oct 05, 2006, 09:21 AM »

Quote from: crappie_boy on Oct 04, 2006, 05:47 PM

i got the meat off my pheasant

I'm not trying to argue...but how did you get the meat off it? I've never seen a mounted bird that someone took the meat from...but that's just me $:-\$

ifishhi · « **Reply #43 on:** Oct 05, 2006, 04:51 PM »

Quote from: PIKEGUY on Oct 05, 2006, 09:21 AM

I'm not trying to argue...but how did you get the meat off it? I've never seen a mounted bird that someone took the meat from...but that's just me $:-\$

i got mine from my turkey he skinned the bird and gave the rest back.

why do i have to eat the fish if i keep it. i don't like most fish but i do like them as art and to me i don't feel a replica is the same. but thats just my opinion and i don't care what you do with yours so please don't care what i do with mine

taxi1 · « **Reply #44 on:** Nov 29, 2006, 06:01 PM »

Rough skinning a fish or bird is not very difficult for an experienced taxidermist, and it's the skin that is used anyway. I can rough skin the carcass out of a fish in 10 minutes at the most. (Of course there is much more time involved scraping and getting the skin super clean for mounting) However I won't do it for customers. Why? Because I can't guarantee my work bench or tools are sanitary. If someone got food poisoning or claimed to have been food poisoned I wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court. And we all know how sue happy this country is.

As far as the taste of bass as some of you may know I have a niche market where I supply bass, trout, bluegill, and perch that I grow out in ponds on my property that I sell to other taxidermists, taxidermy schools, and replica makers. Last winter I needed some perch taken out of one of the ponds pronto for a school, but had taxidermy work I needed to get done pronto too. Anyway, to make a long story short I had two guys out icefishing that I told what size perch I needed, and if there were any bass under 15 inches to throw them back. When they showed me their catch they had about 15 laying on the ice about 13 inches. I was p***ed as I can't sell bass that small but I didn't say anything. So I filleted them and deep fried them. I can tell you they were not as good as bluegills. Kind of strong actually. BTW those guys are never coming back. They blew it.

Holewatcher · « **Reply #45 on:** Dec 03, 2006, 08:21 AM »

aint it trash fish I never liked the tast of bass.

KissMyBassNH · « **Reply #46 on:** Jan 03, 2007, 10:21 AM »

bass are pretty good to eat they dont taste to fishy like a trout ..i always eat largemouth ..never tried smally but i know lagemouth are good to eat year round ..i usually dont eat one out of a pond with alot of houses around or if u know the water isnt the cleanest ..i dont keep it ..but it can be muddy bottom and stuff that dont matter ..i like them best filleted rapped in aluminum foil with butter salt and pepper and grilled

RLWagner · « **Reply #47 on:** Jan 03, 2007, 10:28 AM »

In S E Michigan, the BASs

that come from lakes with over 30 FOW seem to taste delicious, but from shallow ponds and lakes they have a bit of a muddy taste, kinda like the ROCK BASS that we catch so many of during the winter. Gotta beet them off with a stick!

BASSandICE65 · « **Reply #48 on:** Jan 20, 2007, 01:13 AM »

Wow this topic is still going. Friend of mine says to bleed them out in water removes most of the strong fishy taste. been chatting with some of the perch fellas got some good recipies they sware buy for perch. If I catch any today gonna fillet them and chow down.

Lindz · « **Reply #49 on:** Jan 20, 2007, 04:14 PM »

Quote from: BASSandICE65 on Jan 20, 2007, 01:13 AM

Wow this topic is still going. Friend of mine says to bleed them out in water removes most of the strong fishy taste. been chatting with some of the perch fellas got some good recipies they sware buy for perch. If I catch any today gonna fillet them and chow down.

If you do - A Great recipe called fire in the hole!!!!!

Soak the bass in gas!!!! poet and I did...nt.......

A Super variation.......

Soak in oil. Come's out a bit smokier.

Let me know what you think.

Lindz

marmooskapaul · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 06, 2007, 01:08 PM »

once I quit soaking my bass {or any fish} in water for an extended period of time they tast great.Soaking fish in water makes them strong. I just soak em in salt water as I fillet them and then get them in a collindar inside a dish with some ice on top of them and in the fridge. Meat stays firm not mushy and the ice water drains out of the collindar and the bass are delicious!!! Paul

mnfishingdude · « **Reply #51 on:** Dec 28, 2007, 04:16 PM »

Quote from: Robb on Feb 03, 2006, 01:51 PM

Yuck!! I'd rather eat pickeled herring .

MMMM! Pickled Herring! Yes, bass taste great. I don't care if it's Largemouth, Smallmouth, Rock, or White, bass just taste good. But then again I like all fish. My advice would be to take one home with you the next time you go out and fry it up with some Shore Lunch.

Danderson · « **Reply #52 on:** Dec 30, 2007, 10:42 PM »

i didn't wanna kill em, but a friend of mine wanted to try smallmouth. he shared some with me and it was excellent! gotta come out of cold, deep clean water in my opinion or it isn't worth it

RLWagner · « **Reply #53 on:** Dec 31, 2007, 08:36 AM »

This Bass was marinated for two days then smoked.

These Bass were cooked like Bluegills....Panfried.

These are said up to about 5#

These Bass taste about like a Bluegill, but come from prostine waters that are clear and not muddy. Anyone that tastes the Bass I cook can not believe they are Bass cause they have "HEARD" about how muddy they taste. That is not true about the Bass I get from deeper watered lakes in SE MICHIGAN.

Farm pond bass and southern Bass taste terrible, but not these Michigan Bass. JMO

freaknsweet17 · « **Reply #54 on:** Jan 25, 2008, 04:44 PM »

my dad caught a 6lber out of really dirty water and said it didnt taste very good so... $:-\$

Whitefish Whisperer · « **Reply #55 on:** Mar 05, 2009, 05:23 PM »

i think bass r good eatin myself the smaller ones r better i dont keep any over bout 16 inches after that they start gettin kinda soft so i just throw em back i eat the large mouth ive only ate a couple smallies

BASSMAN STANN · « **Reply #56 on:** Mar 25, 2009, 09:03 AM »

I BELIEVE - Bass are Gods gift of food to all who want it.
For that i am grateful............
Besides, If cooked to taste they are delicious !

BASSMAN

dan in pa · « **Reply #57 on:** Jan 05, 2010, 07:56 PM »

I found a marinade recipe:
bout half a bottle of soy sauce, a gush (maybe 2 or 3 ounces) of lemon juice, a half a gush of olive oil, and a couple tbs of minced garlic. Soak it for 2 hours or so, and if you are so inclined make gravy out of the marinade drain off. (floured water makes gravy, simmered to thickness)

It was great, and my GF loved it too. She's picky!

We had the pictured perch with it, and they tasted the same. Preparation is everything. HTH

BASSMAN STANN · « **Reply #58 on:** Jan 12, 2010, 10:16 PM »

Quote from: dan in pa on Jan 05, 2010, 07:56 PM

I found a marinade recipe:
bout half a bottle of soy sauce, a gush (maybe 2 or 3 ounces) of lemon juice, a half a gush of olive oil, and a couple tbs of minced garlic. Soak it for 2 hours or so, and if you are so inclined make gravy out of the marinade drain off. (floured water makes gravy, simmered to thickness)

It was great, and my GF loved it too. She's picky!

We had the pictured perch with it, and they tasted the same. Preparation is everything. HTH
(Image removed from quote.)

I wow-ed my wife with this recipe;
Put fish in zip-lock bag w/ enough olive oil to coat it. Then add to taste, lemon pepper, sea salt, a touch of oregano and finish w/bread crumb. Then like they say _ shake and bake.

Rebelfisher · « **Reply #59 on:** Jan 06, 2011, 01:28 PM »

sinfully delicious! nice thick fillets

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