Can you eat largemouth bass?
Feb 27, 2020 14:35:50 #
You might be right DM. I don't like the taste of fish so ANY fish I eat can't taste fishy or I'm not gonna like it. But get this, I like tuna fish samitches. So go figger. IF the tuna fish salad is flavored nicely.
Feb 27, 2020 14:57:49 #
old phogie
Loc: Whitewater, KS
Live wells are great if people have them to use. Nothing I hate worse than seeing a person with a stringer or basket full of dead and dried out fish! Still edible but going to taste bad.
Feb 27, 2020 15:04:29 #
Yeah, the best way to preserve your catch is to keep it alive as long as possible. Next best is to get it on ice as soon as possible. In the spring up at Tahoe I fill my cooler with snow and put my trout in the cooler right after I catchem. I do knockem in the head first though.
Feb 27, 2020 15:30:30 #
old phogie
Loc: Whitewater, KS
DonaldRotter80 wrote:
I prefer sunfish, crappies, perch or walleye. I have deep fried SMALL largemouth bass along with sunfish and crappies and many don't taste any difference. My late wife used bass instead of salmon in her "salmon loaf" and I thought those were okay. I have found the larger representative of each species to be less palatable than the smaller members. Too each their own. Good Fishing!
Have to admit, I haven't eaten any fish from Kansas waters since 1962, 63, but even the crappie I ate from Kansas waters then tasted strong and kind of bitter. Tasted better from Missouri and Texas. But then I moved to Corpus Christi, TX and now almost all fresh water fish taste bad to me! Hard to beat the flavor of a salt water fish! Still like my fresh water catfish, walleye, and trout, and a few others, but wouldn't trade one salt water type I was catching for any fresh water fish.
And I got to tell you, I used to think that a smaller fish tasted better than a larger fish too, until I caught a 27 pound red snapper and had a chance to compare it to it,s smaller siblings. That large snapper was really great eating, much tastier than any of the smaller snapper. Fried or blackened!
Feb 27, 2020 15:52:08 #
FS Digest wrote:
Are largemouthbass edible also what are some good recipes?
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The noble largemouth bass should be released back into the water ,for hopefully some other anglers thrill of catching him(her)
he(she)should never be butchered
Feb 27, 2020 18:30:09 #
Moscooter
Loc: Sunset Beach, N.C.
badbobby wrote:
The noble largemouth bass should be released back into the water ,for hopefully some other anglers thrill of catching him(her)
he(she)should never be butchered
he(she)should never be butchered
Well, ya your point (now) during this day and age is fairly valid. For sure, the Pro Circuit of Bass Fishermen and tournaments have brought about "catch and release".
but going back in time, when I was a kid. My family and relatives that went fishing, for sure cleaned and had on the dinner table bass/bream(blue gillls)/catfish and crappies (known in the South as white perch as I recall). In addition, there are some that fish for eating what ever they might catch.
Just might be that nice bass that otherwise might give another angler a thrill.
Feb 27, 2020 19:20:45 #
Blue gill
Loc: Walker, Louisiana
I love bass, it’s my wife’s favorite fish other than flounder. We enjoy bass at least twice a week. Friends and neighbors ask for fish all the time. We give them the red fish. We keep the bass
Feb 27, 2020 19:53:41 #
We love bass , yellow corn meal with plenty courses ground black pepper and salt to taste, deep fry at 350 / 375 cook until the fish floats, give this a try and if you can’t eat this, fish may not be for you.
Feb 27, 2020 20:00:55 #
TexDanm
Loc: East Texas
Bass are great eating. I like them because they have nice firm flesh unlike crappie which tend to be mushy. It is all a matter of taste and knowing how to cook. To me, they taste more like bluegills than anything else except you get more meat with fewer bones.
Feb 27, 2020 20:16:28 #
Where I fish is very clean and clear water, have caught crappy, flathead catfish, bream and bass. I prefer to eat bass, debone them and shallow fry coated with breadcrumbs. To me they taste better than the other three kinds of fish. As well they are the best fighting fish.
Feb 27, 2020 20:24:00 #
DeeJay
Loc: Southwest Virginia
Largemouth bass should be fileted, the lateral line in the middle of the filet, and any dark meat that was next to the skin. The lateral lineis what causes the odor, bad taste, after cooking. This works with all fish, i do it with all fish I eat. I feel that the lateral line is like a liver, it filters the blood and holds it until it is excreted from the body. Next time you cook a whole fish break it where the lateral line is and eat the dark section only. Or just taste it, then try fileting and removing the dark meat and the lateral line. Big difference, some people like the taste of the fish cooked whole,I don't. Filet and trim. DEEJAY
Feb 27, 2020 20:54:57 #
DeeJay wrote:
Largemouth bass should be fileted, the lateral lin... (show quote)
That’s one thing I like about largemouth almost zero red meat even better if you cut behind the gills and bleed it out first.
Feb 27, 2020 20:57:31 #
Fish are like any other food. Some people like tomatoes, some don't. Some like peas/broccoli, some don't and so on.......
Some like fish, some don't. Some like certain kinds of fish, others like different kinds.
It's all u to the person eating it. You like it or you don't.
My first catfish was frozen and when cooked, tasted terrible. I am now teaching myself to like it.
As a kid, most people didn't like mushrooms or avocados, etc... but, somehow when they grew up
they all of a sudden liked them. In short.....taste is acquired.
Three years ago, I did not like avocados or quacamole at all. I made a new years resolution to
learn to like them and it only took 6 avocados to do the trick.
Some like fish, some don't. Some like certain kinds of fish, others like different kinds.
It's all u to the person eating it. You like it or you don't.
My first catfish was frozen and when cooked, tasted terrible. I am now teaching myself to like it.
As a kid, most people didn't like mushrooms or avocados, etc... but, somehow when they grew up
they all of a sudden liked them. In short.....taste is acquired.
Three years ago, I did not like avocados or quacamole at all. I made a new years resolution to
learn to like them and it only took 6 avocados to do the trick.
Feb 27, 2020 20:59:04 #
Feb 27, 2020 21:21:51 #
kingfrogger wrote:
Fish are like any other food. Some people like to... (show quote)
Especially with fish it’s how it taken care of from the minute it’s caught until the time it hits the fryer will effect how it tastes.
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