Who eats bass

[Yooper77]

I quite a few pics of bass, that people take home. Just curious how many of you actually eat them. While I agree that they are a great sport fish to catch, personally do not care for their taste. I think they're the only fish that I do not eat actually. Not trying to start a debate, or criticize others, just collecting a poll, I guess.

[mrjohnny]

I eat it....Batter fried.....But I do like the little blue gills a lot better......Used to eat a lot of bullheads but not any more.I think ones taste buds change with age...

[Whopper Stopper]

We eat them.

 Cold water only and our favorrite way is on the grill with some Honey Peacon seasoning we get at Cabela's. The fillets taste very good.

Now warm water is a totally different thing. Catch and release only.

          WS

[UncleJoe]

Yes, with bread crumbs, seasonings, egg wash.  They are mixed in with Gills and perch filets and fried.
It is related to the selective catch story bellow, I have a 2 ac pond and we eat all the shorts we catch.
During the summer we have a picnic and deep fry lots of them, my friends gobble them down faster than my wife and I can cook them.

[coboy]

Speaking for myself and brothers, you can throw the largemouths back in. The smallmouth are delicious!

[rabbittrapper]

I keep smallie and large mouth. Beer batter fried=yummy

[masoneddie]

Unfortunately, we're not allowed to keep Bass here in N.Y. during the ice season.... I wish we could!!
Personally, I'm not particularly fond of many species of fish during warm water periods, but this time of year, most are very palatable, Bass most definetly included, IMO.

[GCD]

I'm spoiled with an abundance of Crappie so anyone that wants my share of bass is more than welcome to them.

[bigmike7272]

I like the taste of bass.

[mjw]

Smallmouth sometimes taste better than walleye if you cook them right!

[Yooper77]

Perhaps I should give them another try. It's true ones taste does change over the years.

[Kevin23]

I eat them, but only out of cold water in the winter and spring. In the summer they taste like weeds, and in the fall they taste like shad. A 14-16" bass will taste just like a crappie if prepared correctly. I just cut the fillets in half or 1/3's to match the size of a crappie fillet. You'll never know the difference. A 12" bass is even better, but our DNR changed the length limits on us to 15" for inland water now so we can't keep the good eating fish anymore... just the breeders, and now we have more 12-14" fish than you can shake a stick at. I have not caught one over 15" yet this year. Our lakes used to be full of 15"+ fish when we could keep 12"+ bass. Guys would keep the 12-14" fish and let the 15+ go to breed.

[Clarkie_0415]

Cut the fillets in thirds the night before and soak them in milk. Then its flour egg wash and breadcrumbs pan fried. Friends mistake it for walleye or jumbo perch fillets. That's spring summer recipe in ny... fall is deer season.

[rgfixit]

Around here we can keep bass through the ice from the Finger lakes. They're great tasting from the icy cold water. I prefer them broiled.

RG

[Muskyrush]

Largemouth.......Yuck!!
Smallmouth are actually pretty good, similar to perch nice white meat.but only like them between 15-17"

[Ice_Fly_Guy]

I eat them in the winter but no way I'm keeping them past April. Most of the time where I fish I don't catch very many smalls to fry up anyway, usually they are nice sized but would probably taste crappy.

[HOTTIPDOWNS]

Largemouth and smallmouth bass are great eating in the winter from the finger lakes in NY!

[Pickeralpicker91]

I like eating bass within a few weeks of the opener in ny....after than though its not as good.

[hardwatercrazy]

Cold water only and they arent bad.

[TheThinIce]

Delicious!

[osiris]

large and smallmouth are on the menu at my house

[ice dawg]

I'll eat Smallies if they are fairly small. Tried Largemouth once and it was like a mouth full of slough mud.

[capt.crappie]

I eat bass in the winter. They taste cleaner.

[Osage]

Biguns are a bit on the muddy mush side,but the footlongs are pretty good.

[IM-POUNDING- R -U]

I dont eat "Green Carp"    Bass

[darkeyez]

I'm with some of the others. Smallmouths are delicious, Largemouths aren't near as good.

[crappieman sod]

bass /crappie/bluegill/catfish/salmon is all good.bass is for the oven with tin foil/butter/lemon/salt/pepper/light italian bread crums. very very good.

[matzilla]

I eat white bass, plenty of them in fact

Haven't ate a largemouth in 20 years....I've seen a lot of them kept to eat in the last year, some 4-6lbs, doesn't make much sense to me

Smallmouths are good

[PhosphorescentPheasant]

Whoever says largemouth or smallmouth bass tastes bad is crazy; it's a white flaky fish that like other fish tastes better when harvested at a young age. It is a Sunfish aka PANFISH. And like all fish the type of water that it lives in and diet are factors.

[Chris338378]

I eat them and like them a lot.  I personally don't care for stocked trout, way to fishy for me.