I don't waste my time trying to make something taste good that doesn't to start with. We used to eat the bass we caught as kids, but my mom couldn't make us eat them after while, they just tasted too 'musty' (Meaning, like the bottom of the lake), unlike ocean fish, or trout or salmon, those taste great too.

Probably if you smoke alot you won't know how bad they taste, then go ahead (one friend does and he says he likes bass).

Even it they tasted good, I enjoy catching them too much to ruin the fishery by taking them home, at least the ones four or larger that is. I've caught too many that I'd released the next week, having as much fun the second time as the first.

throw them back or you won't have any bigger then 5lbs ever to clean. might as well eat a tennis shoe. cook the small ones if any.

That is such an invalid statement. Fish populations are no different from deer, and we all know deer herds have to be thinned out to help their growth and overall health.

We've gotta get off this mentality that the bass is a holy creature that can't be eaten... It's a fish folks.

You got to look at the time it takes for a bass to get really large compared to a deer.

Since it's a fish, cook it like you cook fish. How do you rig a rattlesnake?

YUM YUM!! it's your Bass do as you please! I will always let the bigger ones go!

O Yea / corn meal / Creole Spice / hot grease

Paper sack with some cornmeal and tony chacheres (sp) mixed in it. Chunk in the grease and eat.

You know its been so long since I've eaten a largemouth I can't even remember what it taste like. I enjoy crappie and I never did eat catfish til I moved to texas, always thought of em as a bottom feeding garbage fish until I ate at this place in Arlington called catfish sam's or something like that. I don't like trout or salmon or most pink fish, they always taste fishy to me.....

Oh !!!!...... BASS.....

I thought you meant these http://www.fbbcustom.com/

I so stupid

Baked whole or a wet beer batter works well

That's one of the more uninformed statements I have heard regarding fisheries managemet. What do you think the purpose of a "slot limit" on a lake is? It is to encourage the harvest of fish under that slot and permit the angler to keep one trophy or "over" if they so chose. The fish in the slot are protected because they are the best brood fish (breeders). The fish under the slot need to be removed constantly to keep the fishery healthy and producing a high percentage of bigger fish.

Lakes without the slot have daily and possession limits set to encourage the normal harvest of fish needed to keep a fishery healthy. I do not eat bass over 3 pounds and I think they taste great!

I just wish we as fishermen would ALL educate ourselves about basic fisheries management.

Further, you will NEVER hear me berate someone who has a fishing license and keeps their legal limit of ANY specie of fish. People who do otherwise must have a Godlier than thou personality disorder or something.

Good point, it takes 5-10ish years depending on the lake to grow a really memorable bass as opposed to 3-6?? years for a trophy class deer (I'm not a deer biologist). But, there are a whole lot more fish/acre than there are deer and growth can often be density dependent. If there are too many fish in an area, they will never reach memorable size.

At any rate, every lake is different and we could debate this all day. But, out of respect for the original topic of this thread, I'll leave it at that. You can have the final word, Tricky.

Cookin LMB, after a few years of research we found that
fish under lb. we knock the eyes out and fry em up whole
fish 1lb to 5lbs we cube up and deep fry "Bass Cubes"
fish 5lb - 10lbs we filet em and grill em with old bay,lemon and butter !!
DD's we fire up the smoker and invite the neighbors over !!
That's the way we roll round here !!

Try smudging up funyon potatoe chips and mixing it with your cornmeal! Good stuff!