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Depending on where they are caught they are excellent with a dusting of flour, salt, and pepper in a hot skillet with oil or butter.Anyone ever eat largemouth? In all my years if fishing I never kept one to eat. I'm out this morning and my kid caught a 2 pounder that died.
I’ve been eating large and smallies my whole life. The meat is great. Make sure to check the places you fish because even though there may be no signage like the Charles noting pcbs and such I would only eat them if they came from a fairly fresh source.Yeah I figured they can't taste much different than bluegill or crappie which I've eaten hundreds of. It's from Keyes pond in Westford.
I wouldn't eat any fish caught in mass.
Then again I don't eat any fish at all.
I used to cook them right in the woods where I caught them. Make a little fire, wrap them in foil with some lemon and wild onion, salt and pepper and drop it in the coals.Anyone ever eat largemouth? In all my years if fishing I never kept one to eat. I'm out this morning and my kid caught a 2 pounder that died.
Trout is a delicious fish, but bass are good also. I’ll take trout over bass, but when I was a kid in Plymouth, there weren’t a lot of trout ponds near me, so we ate bass or anything else we could catch. Drew the line at sunfish though.I've had perch before but not pickerel. I drew up eating trout, crappie, bluegills and even some hornpout. My father hated bass fishing so we never really did it and he always said they didn't taste good so I took his word for it. He was always more of a trout guy.
I used to cook them right in the woods where I caught them. Make a little fire, wrap them in foil with some lemon and wild onion, salt and pepper and drop it in the coals.
Bones come right out when cooked and the skin sticks to the foil. A poor man’s feast.
Bass is a pretty mild tasting fish when fresh. Light and flakey. I’ve also cooked perch and pickerel which most people don’t eat but it’s tasty and perfectly edible.
You forgot the bones….I've heard a few people cooking pick. But most say it's awful or something. I think it's more due to them being a PITA to deal with in teh water than anything. They either break you off or try and take off a finger or slime the hell out of you.
You just have to take small bites and pull the ribs out of your mouth. It’s not something I would ever eat unless hungry and broke.You forgot the bones….