BASS???

[jonnyICE-MAN]

Was wondering how to cook bass without getting the fishy taste and the mushyness?

[iland99]

I've found the best tasting bass are the 5 to 7 pounders. When they get that size they taste a LOT like muskies!

[tonyjor]

You's a funny guy, Hollywood.

[Dan Thiem]

I thought the taste was more like bald eagle or loon.

[ice_shack]

Yeah, I hate it when my fish taste fishy.

Seriously though I found that bass are mushy unless they come out of real cold water and are under 2lb.

[snowgoose]

I have a co worker that smokes them. The salt in the brine helps stiffen them up. They are pretty good. I would rather eat walleyes and crappies myself.

[Sifty]

Seeing on how this post is going.Snowgoose how does your coworker keep those bass lit when he is smoking them?

Sifty

[bigdog]

I have found that if you avoid the belly meat (with the white lining stuff on it) there isn't that fishy taste. When filleting I just cut right through the skin over the ribs and basically take the "backstrap" and tail meat. Usually don't eat any over 3#'s, the smaller ones seem to have firmer meat.

[jcfishr]

When smoking bass, which end of the bass do you light?...I know, the bass end!

(let's all keep our day jobs)

[fishtrap3]

Keep the smaller ones to eat, and as stated cold water is best. I have soaked fish in milk before and this has seemed to help. Alot of people don't like eating bass go figure. Maybe they havent even tried it as is the case with someone I use to know. BIG time bass fisherman, use to shake hes head when he would see them in with my catch. Cooked some up and took it over to hes family, they said it was some of the best tasting fish they have had.

[The Grebe]

Many years ago, A fella I was fishing with cooked up some SM bass, over an open fire, while we sat fishing on the river bank. These were smaller fish, maybe 10 to 12 inches long. He scaled them, gutted them, washed them off and got busy.

He went into his pack and came out with the neccessaries, he put some kind of butter mixture, salt and pepper, and a little bit of onion in some aluminum foil and put them in the embers at the edge of the fire.

He knew when to take them out and when I tried one, it was some of the best fish I have ever had, must have been, as I have remembered it for alot of years!

I've tried bass since, on a few occassions, little ones like the ones that he cooked up. A few in the early season, before things get hot and weedy.

I Never was able to duplicate his cooking and have left the bass alone for quite awhile. I can usually get enough Crappies and Sunnies, with an occassional Walleye thrown in, where I don't keep any bass anymore.

[icehousebob]

I prepare Bass the same way I prepare any other fish. The direct method. I just look it straight in the eye and say," Fish, you're going to die."

[icehousebob]

Seriously this time. A friend asked me for a two pound+ bass that I caught through the ice. He gutted it, took off the head and baked it rolled in aluminum foil and stuffed with onions and lemon slices. He said it was great. I think part of it was the winter caught thing. When I plan to keep any summer caught fish for eating, I put a smashed 10 pound block of ice in an ice chest with enough water for the fish to swim in. They go in imediately when they're caught and swim until they freeze to death. This firms up the flesh and stops any bacterial action that is often the cause of the funny swamp taste and mushiness in some fish.

[snowgoose]

Good One Sifty

Never heard that one before!

If you only knew my coworker. He's a heavy smoker. If he can light it, he will smoke it.

[Sifty]

Snowgoose sorry I just had to do it.

Sifty

[Aquaman01]

My mom used to poach my 12"ers with milk and then broil 'em until they got a slight skin on them. Yummy!

[snowgoose]

Sifty

No appology needed. I waas just trying to have a little fun back at you.

Todd

[bassman186]

I've only found Bass to be good one way. My livewell swimming around, waiting to collect me some money at the end of the day.

Ok seriously though I have found one good recipe:

Take a sheet of Tin foil big enough to wrap the fillet. lay it on a cookie sheet. Lay the fillet on the foil top the fillet with 3 slices of bacon, 1/2 t. salt, pepper, garlic powder, 1/2 a chopped onion, 1 T. bbq sauce, and a handful of mozzerella cheese. Wrap this all in the tin foil, and broil it for 10-15 mintues.

~Matt Jung

[TonkaBass]

Eating my friends should be illegal. If you guys eat bass, then I'll start eating muskies!

[Pig_sticka]

I love eating the larger muskies. mmmm mmmm good.

[Oldtyme]

You guys are hilarious.

Add me to the list of 'haven't kept a fish yet this year' but I am tempted to try one just to see how they taste. Can't remember ever having bass.

(pig sticka, what is that fish using for bait?)

[fishtrap3]

Let us know how the muskie taste..

[riverrat56]

I like my muskies with a side of Loon Nuggets, O btw loon tastes alot like bald eagle.

[fishtrap3]

And I suppose the Bald Eagle taste like chicken!!

[Pig_sticka]

Oldtyme-

The fish is using a dollar bill for bait