re: Why is eating bass frowned upon?

I find toledo bend bass are very fishy. I think it's cause thier diet is more shad and marsh bass is more crawfish

Only issues I ever had an issue with was people A)not abiding by the slot limit on the lake and B) keeping every single bass they catch over 4lbs. Keeping smaller bass helps with the genetics and available food in lakes/ponds, that's supposedly why so many bigger fish were caught back in the day (catch and release was never really practiced before the OG fishing shows)

im from a very, very country part of the midwest and maybe every fifth person keeps and eats bass. i think it's just a regional thing.

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the same folks who cry about someone eating bass are usually the same ones who want to snatch big female bass off the nest, drag them to the weigh in, then throw them back in the water at the landing after the weigh in.

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The bass tournaments and tours teach people how to pull females off of beds... fricking insanity. Doesn't surprise me, there are people who want to change the speckled trout size limit to make it to where you can only keep female speckled trout or the largest, oldest males. Insanity.

I eat bass as long as they aren’t larger than 10 lbs.

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I personally think that bass are some of the tastiest swimming fish, especially in Louisiana? Why do fisherman (especially yankees) frown upon harvesting bass? I don't keep bass over two pounds. The one pound marsh bass are tastier than speckled trout IMO.

Can anyone enlighten me on this?

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Part of the media influencing behavior.

My Grandad would fish Toledo Bend river bottoms almost everyday (not Sundays) when he retired. Lived less than a mile as the crow flies from lake and all the landowners in the area would drop off a key every time they changed locks on their gates. He was used as a fish finder by local sports reporters on TV, being referred to "look for this old man and his dog, if they stay in one spot more than 15 minutes jump in there when he does move on, if he keeps moving you do too."

Grandad's 20 acres of pasture had a minimum 5 lb bass head on every fence post. Until well into his eighties his freezer always had fish, bass mainly. Although at 83 he pulled out the biggest catfish he ever caught from one of secret honey holes way back in the woods in a slough off the Old River, 47 lb'er that grunted like a pig, so loud the deaf old man could hear it plainly.

Grandad only threw back the State Regs said had to go back.