Thoughts on eating largemouth bass? Compared to fish such as speckled trout, crappie etc

Small ones are good. You gotta fillet the skin off, and cut out any bloodline or yellowish fat (which you usually only see on the bigger ones). And the silver skin, of course.

A trimmed, boneless, skinless LMB fillet is excellent fried fish.

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My momma used to bring me a gallon of speck filets every week. I was working but she fished everyday whenever conditions were right. Every day.

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Can't do that nowadays. Too many damn game wardens and their fancy "regulations".

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don't like to eat pond bass

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Same. And probably why I won't eat bass at all. They just smell bad to me.

I enjoy some bass especially about a pound range. I enjoy them even more when I think of the glitter boat that will never catch the one I'm eating.

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I enjoy them even more when I think of the glitter boat that will never catch the one I'm eating.

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They already seent it in their rangefinder and let it walk, like the true sportsmen they are.

Bass probably isn’t as good as fresh specks or crappie. With that said I have fried bass and trout together and bass with crappie and no one seemed to notice a difference between any of them. I love catfish, but you can tell a difference between bass and catfish. So yeah, I will keep bass when I want to fry some fish.

I only bass fish, and therefore, probably 99% of the fish I eat is bass. Every now and then I’ll catch a sac a lait or real big bream and toss it in the ice chest. I mostly just eat the bass I catch out of my gf’s dad’s pond. They taste as good as any to me. I fry bass at work pretty often, and give some bags to friends, and I’ve never heard anyone complain about the way they taste. They’re also good to do fish tacos with, or just bake with some lemon pepper.

I release all largemouth that are bleeding badly when I remove the hook but I keep every spot I catch. My local lake is on the verge of being over run with spots....herring and spots are a bad (or a good depending on your perspective) combination....2 of the lakes on the Savannah River are just about over-run with spots now and the Hill is getting there. Most are under 2 pounds so they are as good as any bream, in my opinion not quite as good as crappie but only by a little bit. I doubt my keeping 8-10 a couple of times a month, if that, is making a dent in them but if everyone did it it might make a difference. The debate is pretty open about them replacing largemouth...the Hill is still full of LM and it produces some good ones but the state DNR is encouraging keeping spots and I lean toward thinking the biologists know more about it than most. I was told by a game warden that the DNR had considered doing away with size limits and increasing the bad limit but they were concerned with mis-identification. Its easy to identify a spot...if it has a rough patch on its tongue its a spot no matter what the coloration is....but the DNR is concerned that people will keep LM claiming they are spots.

If you ever have to do a fish fry for a bunch of people who don’t eat a lot of fried fish, you can throw small bass in with the crappie and you probably won’t hear any complaints.

Most of the people you feed it to won’t know the difference.

Bass is in my top 3 of freshwater to fish eat, especially them 1 1/2 pound knot heads out the marsh.