BE HONEST

[trentonc2000]

Smallies are excellent! haha just kidding.

I don't take any bass home. But after reading above posts, I'll have to try spots. I do bring bluegills and crappie when i catch them. Mostly in the spring when the crappie are shallow and i can find the gills in their big beds.

[crazyfishinnut]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-06 AT 01:56PM (EST)[/font][p]I LOVE crappie and will bring most any stripe trout ,walleye' Home But I will not keep a bsss to eat UNLESS.... It is a weighed in fish that was dead and going to be thrown out there for the turtles. Last year at our Big Bass Classic we released 92 bass that was weighed in, several didn't make it up the hill cause they were small but out of these 92 I took home 4 fish that didn't make it in the recoup tanks and by the way even though it was July all were hooked deep cause all 4 had hooks still in the gut.3 even with the plastic. Them I keep and with uncle bucks batter YUMMY!!!
Rodney
Tight lines
It is easier to build a child than it is to repair an adult. GOD BLESS

[know1]

I fish for mostly crappie and bluegill and I only brought home fish one time last year in Kentucky to clean and eat - all bluegills and crappie.

I also fried up a few for dinner on a canoe camping trip in the BWCA last year.

The year before I might have brought home a few fish 3 or 4 times.

[smljaw]

I only keep walleye and crappie to eat. Once in a blue moon I'll keep a spot/LM bass or 2 to eat. I never keep any SM bass.

[Danny]

LM, Spots, and even smallmouth, they all taste good.

The fact is that what we call bass are really from the Pan fish family and are cousins of the breem (bluegill).

I have no problems with those that hunt deer for the meat, turkey for the meat, and I don't hold anything against those that fish for the meat.

Now I'll admit, my wife won't let me keep fish to eat. She says if I want to eat fish, she will either go get me some from Long John Silvers or some fresh fish from the market. In any case she figures it is best to eat some that are already dead.

Growing up, we always ate the fish. Stay within the limit laws, and I have no problems.

My sister, just like me, grew up eating fresh fish that we caught. My brother-in-law kept asking me if I would let him keep some fish for them to have a fish fry. We had a decent day of fishing. He went home with a nice catfish, a drum, a couple of crappie, and one 15.5 inch bass. I got home from the lake, and it is important to know that my brother-in-law left the lake in his own truck at the lake, and my wife had no way of knowing he kept those fish. Yet as soon as she saw me walking down the driveway she said, "you let Jerry keep those fish, didn't you?"

I now release all fish... my sister just gets no more fresh fish fries from me.

LOL

Danny

[gettingonefishin]

I havn't eat a largemouth in years. Had smallmouth that was dead at weigh in once from Cumberland and didnt like the taste of em. I eat spots, crappie, bluegill, stripers, hybrids, white bass, catfish, sauger, and the best of all Mr Walleye. I love fish and thats it. But I dont eat LM or SM.

[kycrawfish]

The only bass I keep, are the ones that didn't keep (meaning they expired in the live well - and those have been few and far between).

[BardstownFish]

have kept a few LM over the winter, and most legal crappie

[toby]

Too much work. Love to eat fresh fish but too lazy to clean them.

[BardstownFish]

with an electric filet knife it makes it a breeze

[KBB]

dont really like bass to eat.but i usually catch a few stripers and walleye while bass fishing on c-land.all the legal ones go home.

[easy_13]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-18-06 AT 11:59PM (EST)[/font][p]I watched Basscenter this morning and was sickened to see one of the feature stories they had. They showed a fish cleaning station, I think it was on Sam Rayburn. Anyway, there was a full room of people cleaning fish on a circular table. Saw a couple of bass in the 5-6 pound range being hacked up with a filet knife, too. x(

I suppose it's legal and your right to do so, but I'll never eat a bass. I'm strictly catch and release, with the exception of a few Kentuckies, which I keep and transport to a buddy's farm pond. I've been told that Kys are so aggressive that if you don't weed some of them out, they'll overpopulate to the detriment of LM and SM.