best bass recipies?

[Tap]

Hey y'all,

I'm headed to the John Day this weekend for a lil' smallmouth fishing with my son. Saturday to Sunday.

anyone have any good bass recipies? can you eat them and are they good?

[schwerty]

I'm prolly too late but....moss fresh water Bass are not worth eating. Lots of bones and very fishy! Release them and they will grow stronger for the next fight.

[SKISC]

I'm prolly too late but....moss fresh water Bass are not worth eating. Lots of bones and very fishy! Release them and they will grow stronger for the next fight.

+1, but if you must cook them the frying pan is the way to go.

[DamRepublican]

two tips;

1 dont eat them, they are horrible fish to eat.

2 if you must use alot of butter onions and garlic fry until flaky, this makes them reasonably edible, but they still taste like shitty fish from a wal-mart supercenter.

[EPSkis]

Ugh. I've been a bass fisherman all my life & decided to try bass once. I don't recall which was worse: The fact that I was eating lousy-tasting fish, or the fact that I killed 2 decent sized game fish that should have gone back in the water.

Bass ~ put 'em back & let 'em live to fight another day.
Trout ~ best when wrapped in BACON!

[Jer]

Make a batter of flour and beer. Dip bass in batter. Fry with bacon grease. Throw away. Grill salmon.

[TS Quint]

Also probably late on this one...but I'll have to agree that bass (small and large mouth at least) are not good eaters. The texture is spongy, they taste about like pike smell and don't forget that by this time of the year they're almost all wormy! MMMMMMMmmmmm

The good news is that nearly anywhere you can find bass, sunfish and bluegill are near...catch a few dozen of them and fry 'em up...tasty.

[pointedem]

striped bass on the other hand..

[bigsugar]

I think it depends on the source. We pulled some out of Batchawana Bay in Lake Superior and they were actually pretty good.......but out of landlocked lakes they suck.