50% of the time if I catch a bass between 12 and 15 inches it is thrown in the livewell. I think bass are as good as crappie if prepared right. I dont keep much tho since I am the only one in the house that eats fish and bluegills are 100000 times easier to catch and taste better with beer. Wilgreen used to be BAD with tons of bass between 10 and 11 3/4 inches long but since the shad have blown up in the lake they too have blown up in size, you just dont catch the numbers like a few years back. I am all for keeping fish to eat, just dont overharvest. Say you fish a place like Stoner once a week and keep 4 bass every outing and you go all spring, summer and fall, you alone are pulling over 120 bass out of there. That will hurt over a few years on the small bodies of water.

Shawn