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Eating Bass

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Have you eaten bass?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 63.9%

  • No

    Votes: 13 36.1%
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I live very close to the Cuyahoga River, before it goes into Akron and then north to Cleveland. Even still, almost no one (myself included), will eat the fish caught from the river. As a result, there are so many small mouth bass in some areas that the fish can't get enough food to grow very large.

It's not unusual to catch an 18 inch small mouth in the Cuyahoga that weighs little more than a pound. A similar length fish taken from Lake Erie would be 3 plus pounds. A friend of mine who know the river very well, claims to have caught and released over 100 small mouth in a day.
 
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Tonyank;2143030; said:
did you get sick of corn ?
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NEVER! Corn on the cob is one of life's simple treasures. We have next to nothing in Nebraska - but we have damned good corn every summer.


Gatorubet;2143047; said:
Just don't ask him where they got the corn for the bait...
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Silly Gator! You don't fish for bass with corn! You use a lure, preferably with triple hooks. You don't waste yummy corn on fish.



As for eating bass, I suppose it's no different than anything else. You have to acquire a taste for it, I suppose.

Just saw a fish survey chart from my hometown showing a pretty good-sized population of bass over 24" in one of the local lakes. Might have to go out and get some lines wet.
 
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Crump's brother;2142908; said:
Just went out today with my father, caught and released seven largemouth.

I used to eat them fairly regularly, they make a fine meal-but the body of water does play a big part in their taste. I prefer a largemouth from the Connecticut river over Seneca Lake, that's for sure. The flesh is firmer the colder the water is, too.

Smallies are also really good-but I wouldn't put them over walleyes/yellow perch. I have issues with killing bass, but I don't mind keeping 30 perch and firing up the vacuum sealer. The only time I eat a bass these days is when one of my dipshit buddies hooks them so deep it isn't worth releasing them.
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Spent a lot of time as a kid catching bass, white and yellow perch, and an occasional walleye in the Connecticut River (Southern Vermont). Great memories.
 
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Stripped bass is pretty good. My father caught a nice one out of the Colorado river just the other day

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For 5 days I ate nothing but Bass, oatmeal for breakfast, and a few meals of tortillas with honey and peanut butter while canoeing in the Thousand Lakes of Minnesota. I would have been happy to have another fish, but aside from a couple big Pike we didn't catch anything else. Granted, we used some kind of powder/rub to cook them in, so they could have been much worse, but they were tasty enough to eat. I've definitely had better, I've had worse too.
 
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We mostly ate what we caught when I was a kid... I'm not sure I was aware people didn't eat bass... I've had bass... we even cooked and ate crappie (sp?) and sunfish (IIRC) we caught when I was a kid... I don't think we ate carp because I remember everyone being afraid of the mud vein...
 
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BusNative;2143220; said:
We mostly ate what we caught when I was a kid... I'm not sure I was aware people didn't eat bass... I've had bass... we even cooked and ate crappie (sp?) and sunfish (IIRC) we caught when I was a kid... I don't think we ate carp because I remember everyone being afraid of the mud vein...
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Crappie tastes good, and that's not even up for debate.
 
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