Does anyone eat largemouth bass?

[Curly]

I don't really notice a difference between the taste of Largemouth or Smallmouth.  Both taste pretty good.  But, that said, it is rare that I ever keep one and eat it.  Usually only if it gets hooked real deep or in a gill...........then I'd rather eat it than release and risk it dying.

[atc250r18]

Bass over trout any day of the week!

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[GoPlayOutside]

I would eat Bass over Trout any day also.
Love the flaky white meat.

[Russ McDonald]

Grew up in Minnesota, heck yeah I would eat them  . Fillet,egg wash or butter milk, bread them and pan fry.  Largemouth, smallmouth, sunnies, crappies, pike, walleye all excellent eating, but perch in northern MN were used as bait for pike and muskies.  They were a wormy fish up north.

[KopperBuck]

Don't eat the LM but we eat SM. Mostly because we're trying to do our part in the needed reduction. No spawners and only the cookie cutters.

[KFhunter]

The one lake I eat them out of has way too many little ones so I'll eat em heck ya.

8-10 inchers

[Bean Counter]

I would eat Bass over Trout any day also.
Love the flaky white meat.

 

[madcow41]

Horrible fish to eat... but im from florida and in the last 4 years enjoyed trout and a few years before that enjoyed Maine Brookies

[Ripper]

To me trout are one of the worst fish to eat, the stockers anyway. Bass are a great fish to eat. In Eastern Wa they want the numbers reduced because of overpopulation. I like the 10-14" size for eating, you get a good fillet off them. I let all the big females go.

[ribka]

Out of cold water bass are great eating. just made macadamia nut crusted bass last night.

Not so good eating when water temps over 65

[duckmen1]

In most cases it's the law to release 12 to 17 inch largemouths. I don't want to keep a small one and the bigger than 17 inchers have a lot of mercury. Those are the big spawners to so let them go to keep a population going. Plus In Western Washington I could wipe out a smaller lake pretty quikely if I was keeping them.
Not enough to be keeping in my opinion.
But the way to keep them if you must would be smaller than 12 inches for eating.

[Dhoey07]

In upstate new york, i killed one on accident and cooked it and a walleye at the same time.  I tought that they both tasted just fine.

[gotshot]

I did a tast test one time from a small lake I used to fish. The reslts were 1st-bluegill, 2nd-perch, 3rd-trout, and 4th-largemouth.

[Ripper]

I agree with Ribka, the warmer the water the worse they taste.  They start to taste like a dirty aquarium smells.

[earlmarne]

ive eatin a few,they are good fried up after fileting.
i wont eatem anymore unless i killem in the landing.they take forever to grow this far north n i love fishin for em so much i let em all go so me n my son can catchem again.