Not even going to read the comments because I’m guessing people are butthurt about him cooking a largemouth. Fact of the matter is that it’s legal and no different than eating a crappie or any other fish.
I must say that I've been fishing my entire life (25 yrs old now) and have not gill hooked a bass. However, if I did, I would have done what you did. If it's going to die, let it fuel the body.
Guys seriously, people say bass don’t taste good but if you cooked it the same exact way and lied and told them it was flounder, they would have thought it was delicious..
I disagree with the comparison. Bass is an awesome fish, I have always loved it. I've only had flounder once, and it was an experience I never want to repeat.
Try cold water small mouth I hate large mouth compared to cold water fish I caught a largemouth when I was younger and was excited to eat it and I tried it and gagged of the taste 🤢🤮
The Bass taste secret: some shallow/weedy/warm water bass can be stout. Deep/cold water bass are as good as walleye. The trick is this: for all white flesh fish, dissolve 2 heaping tablespoons of salt, and one of baking soda, in a gallon of cold water. Rinse the fillets well in cold water, then leave them in this solution for 24-48 hours. Tbey will be firm, mild, and delicious. This will work in any white fleshed fish, but not on trout or salmon, which will just get mushy...er.
I like the taste of bass, but I usually don't keep them because I'm lazy lol. Don't worry guys, there are plenty of bass in your lakes to eat some if you want to.
LethaInjection can confirm, down here in Louisiana, at least. There’s always an anti-bass-eating crowd we laugh at while cookin em at the camp. I don’t care, I eat what I catch. I’m an equal opportunity carnivore!
@@RenegadeSith in Alabama we used to catch and clean LM bass all the time when I was growing up. I don’t like any kind of fish but my whole family loved it. I never knew until I watched this that eating LM bass was so taboo.
Not only that, but most bass will take on the flavor of their environment... ive had bluegills taste awful (tasted like mud) in one place and absolutely delicious in another.
I don't know but here in MN we keep any fish in the legal limit. Sometimes though If I only catch one for the day. I just release it back. I like to at least catch two keepers.
Acctually people better start eating bass once in a while and here is my theory,bass need food and if there is too many bass there is less food for all of them,so if we keep control of how many bass are in certain areas the ones left have more food and grow bigger, don't burn me for this comment is just a theory but just think of it
There is merit to your theory..... its the basis of how states determine regulations and in some bodies of water, they want you to keep bass through plr slots (slots where if you catch one in the range, you release it and only keep one over the range). I recall seeing it in the Tennessee regulations a few years back.
Victor Franqui pond management , my friends do that here the ones who have land and private ponds/tanks .they say a good way to tell on when to do this is if you keep catching fish but they’re all the same size it means there growth stunted because of not enough food and it’s good to cull a few they still don’t eat the bass though they eat the catfish and crappie and you start to catch some huge bass... but I do mean small private ponds don’t go taking small fish out of public fisheries now !
Cesar Morales it's better to eat the smaller(younger) fish, lower levels of toxins and heavy metals for one, and young meat is just plain better than old gamey giant fish flesh.
My kids (now in their 20's) and I fish a 40 acre lake (30 ft. deep) in northern WI with lg. and small mouth bass. No motors in the lake and you can see 15 ft. down. The lake is land locked and I have not bought a license in about 20 years. It is a spring fed lake and very clean. We can usually catch 7 or 8 keeper fish in an hour. I use the same recipe and the fish taste awesome. The lake used to have big gills, sun fish and the occasional crappie. Now we only see bass and they seem to be smaller than back in the 80's. The lake needs to be fished more to allow the bass to grow. Back in the early 60's, walleye were introduced but they slowly went away. I think most people that wouldn't consider eating bass have only tasted bass from an over boated, oily water lake contaminated by pollution. Clean bass cooked properly are very good!
For years and years I tossed back all bass. I was told they were not a good eating fish. I was certainly lied too. I like to keep the smaller ones. Absolutely delicious.
Most people that have ponds with bass eat the small ones to keep them from overpopulating the pond. They taste excellent. Once they get big (4-5 lbs) they don't taste as good, and you wanna keep them in your pond for fun anyways.
I’ve been catching and cooking bass all my life, always confused when people get upset😂 Like bass is good as hell if your perception on the fish is the same as any other- the moment you think it’s a trash fish, it turns into a trash fish
Largemouth imho is a decent fish for the table as long as it is close to the limit size. As they get larger/older just let them go for the next angler to catch. Apex predators in many American lakes build up toxins as they age. I think spots actually taste better, maybe because they are usually legal to harvest at a smaller size. Love the video man!
Tasted bass for the first time after being one of those people who were like “no release the largemouths” let me tell you...I was brainwashed! It is truly one of the better fish I have ever eaten! Mixed my with salt, pepper, panko break crumb mix, and milk and then fried!
I bass fish all the time and usually release everything I catch but there are times I go out with dinner on my mind. I only keep the fish if I'm going to eat it right away. Sometimes I feel bad and let the fish go before I leave. Not because I think killing fish for food is wrong, but they're such a fun fish to catch that I just feel like letting them live.
I don't really see anything "wrong" with it. For me it's mainly been a catch and release type fish, so to me it seems unorthodox to eat it. What does it taste like though?
The Skeptical Carrot actually tastes really good! I eat it almost whenever I go fishing, put an egg on it, bread it and then fry it up in butter and lemon
@@theskepticalcarrot7199 I caught and cooked one last summer.. to be honest they're not great but they're alright. the meat is pretty tough and chewy compared to other fish and tastes a little muddy, but its not terrible and certainly is edible .
Thank you for being honest about the taste. Other videos they say it tastes bad mainly because they have no idea how to cook it.... lol. I eating love bass , but I usually catch and release
Great video, nothing wrong with eating bass, there are plenty of them in the lakes and rivers everywhere I lived. If I do eat them I usually eat the smaller ones about 12" long and in the early spring when the water is colder they usually taste a little better.
I usually deep fry mine after a shake in in self rising flour, kinda like what you did with the bread crumbs, no eggs though, seasoned with Tony Chachere's creole and black pepper, with a bit more garlic powder. Or if I'm wanting a lighter flavor, just salt, lemon pepper, and garlic powder. What other ways do you guys cook fish? Love to exchange some tips and tricks for cooking up these bad boys.
I used to turn wrenches in a boat shop and the guys would give me a hard time cause I kept bass to eat. I would do fish frys with the bass I saved up and tell the bass fisherman that it was catfish. They raved about it. Saying it was the best fish they ever had.
If you catch large mouth bass in clear water creeks. They taste really really great. Chances are they have had a fantastic diet of trout, salmon, even walleye where I live. They do not taste murky at all I’ve had some that were just as good as walleye, as hard as that is to believe.
Dang man your brave. lol. Hey it's legal and not on a bed I got no problem with it. Most people don't realize it helps a fishery. Especially the size you took. Largemouth are the worst of the black bass Spotted bass are as good as crappie.
I eat bass all the time when i catch a mess of them. Of course, I'm from southeastern Mississippi, where fish is almost always a big part of a person's diet here. Largemouth bass, bream, crappie, warmouth, channel and blue catfish, white perch, smallmouth, all kinda fish we eat here, and I see no shame in doing what you just did. If they do shame you, then shame on them for misjudging such a fine fisherman and meal. Some of the best fish I've ever eaten, and it's probably my favorite other than catfish.
With the exception of Tarpon, the very essence of being a "game" fish is in it's suitability as table fare. A great example is the Walleye: often tight lipped, and certainly not revered for its aggressive behavior or it's fighting prowess, it is considered a game fish none the less.
Baked bass is the best in my opinion. Filet, place in shallow baking dish with butter, lemon juice, lemon pepper, blackened seasoning, onion powder and garlic powder. Bake for 20 minutes on 350 degrees. Melt in your mouth!
This is my first time watching your channel and I gotta say you peaked my interest in fishing and cooking it by myself, might try it myself someday when I have the time. Subscribed and looking forward for more
All these haters in the comments like who cares you can eat any fish if you want if it’s legal than you can eat it. I’m 15 fish with my family and we can take 5 bass per person and I been catching fish since I was 4 and we keep and eat them. Great vid dude keep it up👍
I have no issue eating bass and I think this is a great video. I can understand why some people get so butthurt but at the same time I don’t. Largemouth is like any other native fish and they actually taste really good, now anything over a certain size I’m gunna throw back just because it’s also a sport to me. I’m not saying everytime I bass fish ima keep one ide say a couple times a year I’d cook one up but definitely the bigger bass I toss back
Mesquite smoked a whole eleven pounder out of choke canyon reservoir. And yes, it was dead after it hit the ice. Salt, pepper, and plenty of butter. No complaints from the family
Bass are some of my favorite fish to eat. Never really understood why people hate eating them. I mean I get throwing them back for people who want to catch them as a sport
Bass is delicious! The bass in fresh water Northern California is great! Maybe if other caught it in different water, it would taste different, but I bass fish all day and take one home with me for dinner. 👍🎣😃❤️
I’ve eaten bass. Lower Columbia river downstream of Hanford. So, I glow now. 🤢 But the fish wasn’t that bad. Oh, it stunk! But what fish doesn’t, coming out of the Columbia? The thought of eating Carp is a stretch, but I’d do it in a pinch. Squaw fish-NOPE. I remember when I cooked the bass the heart was still beating outside the fish; and I diced it up, and each piece was beating in unison. That’s how heart meat works. It’s on a primordial clock. The nerves still function on a basal level not attached to the central system. Because God.
j fishslayer Its no less table fare than any other "native" fish. Just because people like catching them doesnt mean you cant target them for food. Silly mentality
If you want to target bass to eat thats on you . But bass arent stocked like all other species where i live. If i want to eat fish i target other species or go to the store and by salmon.
I just can't believe it took you gill hooking a bass to try it that's crazy I have so many memorys growing up eating them in Canada definitely one of my favourite fish to eat keep the catch and cook coming!!! They're amazing with just some lemon on them no breading or anything
I've kept small bass to eat in the past. In some instances it's good to weed out the small ones and lessen the competition for food. It's basic management.
The lake I fish most has an overpopulation of small bass, so we've been taking out a lot over the past few years. We don't keep anything over 15", but the small ones taste pretty good. We also eat a lot of crappie, and they taste very similar.
Hey, don’t be afraid to keep fish. The ones that fish and don’t eat it are the weird ones 😂 it was initially for meat to survive + it’s just all around fun to do and that’s the part that became a sport but you can still eat
That was the perfect size to eat I wouldn’t suggest eating them if they over the 16 inch mark! I find those 14-16 inch are the best tasting! Awesome video
oh crap you gonna get demonitized for showing when preparing the fish. Another channel I follow got served recently for it. Just a heads up for the future cause I love what you do :)
Yeah they seem to be pretty picky, that channel has a bit more followers but you're way up there too so I can't see why thay wont mess with you too soon. Really hope they dont tho! Keep up the great work man! :)
Ive gill hooked bass before, and if you keep giving them air every 20-30 seconds, it’ll keep em alive. Sometimes it just kills em if its hooked in more than one gill line. Great video lol.
Limit here is 15 inches and we have a possession limit of 5 per day. You bet your ass I limit out as often as I can. They aren’t endangered nowhere near threatened and they are GOOD! I fish for food just as much as I do for fun. Some of us try to buy as little as possible from the stores and truly provide for ourselves.
I think the best way to eat bass if you find yourself in a situation like that is in the form of nuggets actually. They have an excellent consistency for it as well as providing thick fillets. If they're fried and seasoned well, just squeeze a little bit of lemon over it and some greens and they're great to eat.
Come up north and catch walleye! You'd loose your mind at how good it is. Just do like a northern USA trip, catch pike, walleye, rock bass, big smallies, etc.
Yesterday a 21" (I measured it) large mouth bass beached itself right next to my campsite. Its stomach was bulging because it had eaten something too big. I waited to see if it would recover. If not, the plan: cook it up. I went to do something for about ten minutes. When I returned to the fish it was gone. There were coyote tracks in the wet sand, right to where the fish had been.
Enjoy your Catch and Cook videos. While fishing for trout in one of our local lakes, I caught a rather big Largemouth bass, somewhere between 2 - 3 pounds. Took it home and fixed for dinner that night. Instead of fileting it as you did, I made one slit across the throat, cleaned it out real good. Next put it in the refrigerator while I prepared the Wild rice stuffing. Leaving the head on, so the stuffing would not spill out, I placed it on some foil, put some butter with it, then sealed the foil shut. Cooked it for about five minutes at 350 degrees, opening it once to baste the fish with its juices. at this point I added a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, then let it finish cooking. When finished I took it to the table and unwrapped it peeling off one side and spooning the wild rice out I shared this with my mother who I happened to be caring for at the time. It was one delicious dish. Have done the same treatment with some large trout I had caught. Just cannot beat fresh caught fish for a meal. Have several ways that I prepare my fresh fish. Cannot wait until you do the pickerel catch and cook.
Not even going to read the comments because I’m guessing people are butthurt about him cooking a largemouth. Fact of the matter is that it’s legal and no different than eating a crappie or any other fish.
hey a sane person, thats rare
Yeah, bass and trout: catch and release in bacon grease!!!
Fuk the haters!!!
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Eating the fish is better than wasting it.
Ray Robinson thank you
Ray Robinson human waste
I would have rather him release it but interesting and educational video no etheless
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Use it as chum.
Been eating Bass my whole life. I laugh when I here someone say ugh to Bass. Great video and glad you tried it.
R u Russian or eastern European?
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I have also been eating bass they taste good like any other flaky white fish
I like to fillet and release.
Jacksonville Reclaimed Wood Glad that abusing wildlife makes your day👍
I must say that I've been fishing my entire life (25 yrs old now) and have not gill hooked a bass. However, if I did, I would have done what you did. If it's going to die, let it fuel the body.
Im turning 17 may 7th and i have gill hooked bass a few times, maybe im unlucky lol.
Kui Galaxy Same one swallowed my Live shad I had for bait and the treble hook completely destroyed the gills.
gill hooked a 3.5 pounder last weekend and he swam off as soon as i put him in the water. he was bleeding a bit but i guess it depends
probably bled out tho
Kui Galaxy yea the gator there probably ate him if he died.
I love Tall Js Catch and cooks. My fav type of vid that he makes
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Only bad part is you don't get as much of those, oh my Gods. Lmao
Catch Em All Fishing ayeeeee
I see the red tail is back home from his long vacation
Make a collab catch n cook
Guys seriously, people say bass don’t taste good but if you cooked it the same exact way and lied and told them it was flounder, they would have thought it was delicious..
0riginal Lee Yikes! Where I'm from people love to cook and eat bass! I figured thats why there is a size limit.
I disagree with the comparison. Bass is an awesome fish, I have always loved it. I've only had flounder once, and it was an experience I never want to repeat.
I’ve eaten bass before it didn’t taste bad but it kinda had like a cotton texture to me? Kinda set me off it
I can tell large mouth bass by their smell and taste from anything else in this world. It's very unique. It's not that delicious.
Try cold water small mouth I hate large mouth compared to cold water fish I caught a largemouth when I was younger and was excited to eat it and I tried it and gagged of the taste 🤢🤮
let the HATE begin lol
Not as much as i was expecting
lol probably because you didn't intentionally kill it to cook it, either way, great vid brother
Catch and cook a gold fish not a bass !!!
Bass life matters !!!
I busted out laughing.
choppa gunna their not even close to extinction bruh
The Bass taste secret:
some shallow/weedy/warm water bass can be stout. Deep/cold water bass are as good as walleye. The trick is this: for all white flesh fish, dissolve 2 heaping tablespoons of salt, and one of baking soda, in a gallon of cold water. Rinse the fillets well in cold water, then leave them in this solution for 24-48 hours. Tbey will be firm, mild, and delicious.
This will work in any white fleshed fish, but not on trout or salmon, which will just get mushy...er.
I like the taste of bass, but I usually don't keep them because I'm lazy lol. Don't worry guys, there are plenty of bass in your lakes to eat some if you want to.
Bass tastes like crappie to me it's really good
@@thehiddenangler9083 they are all in the same family, sunfish , that's probably why they taste the same
@@Makesdonsdonsoney crappie are not part of the sunfish family but large and smallmouth are so yes that is the main reason
Came for all the largemouth bass eating haters haha. Nothing wrong with keeping a fish that is nowhere near extinction, if legally done so.
Mikael Ranta Outdoors I don't really don't eat bass I have one as a pet I love catfish !!!
Right on there are ponds near me that are over populated with largemouth so i cook em uup yummy eats
@@jamesfuller9883 just don’t eat the biggest ones. Those ones are the spawners.
Keeping smaller bass (legal size) can be beneficial- sometimes there are just to many bass in one area. I think the smaller ones taste better also!
Eating Largemouth Bass is frowned upon? Since when? I've been fishing all my life, and have never heard this outside of RUclips.
LethaInjection can confirm, down here in Louisiana, at least. There’s always an anti-bass-eating crowd we laugh at while cookin em at the camp. I don’t care, I eat what I catch. I’m an equal opportunity carnivore!
@@RenegadeSith same bass is very good tastes great but I don't keep alot of fish but when I do we keep alot of fish
@@RenegadeSith in Alabama we used to catch and clean LM bass all the time when I was growing up. I don’t like any kind of fish but my whole family loved it. I never knew until I watched this that eating LM bass was so taboo.
Bass is amazing! Best fish I have ever eaten. Especially from the Everglades. Thank you for doing a bass catch and cook.
What kind of fish did you eat before 😂
I had largemouth bass in the past and it is ABSOLUTELY delicious. One of the best tasting fish out there.
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4:26 '' back at the cribbo'' lmfao
OMG YOU ATE A BASS ITS A GAME FISH jk who cares if it's legal
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I think the idea of bass doesn't taste good arose rose rampantly when catch-and-release got really popular
yhwh strateuma because it’s more of a game fish but apparently they’re good but I dislike fish
Not only that, but most bass will take on the flavor of their environment... ive had bluegills taste awful (tasted like mud) in one place and absolutely delicious in another.
I don't know but here in MN we keep any fish in the legal limit. Sometimes though If I only catch one for the day. I just release it back. I like to at least catch two keepers.
Acctually people better start eating bass once in a while and here is my theory,bass need food and if there is too many bass there is less food for all of them,so if we keep control of how many bass are in certain areas the ones left have more food and grow bigger, don't burn me for this comment is just a theory but just think of it
There is merit to your theory..... its the basis of how states determine regulations and in some bodies of water, they want you to keep bass through plr slots (slots where if you catch one in the range, you release it and only keep one over the range).
I recall seeing it in the Tennessee regulations a few years back.
Victor Franqui pond management , my friends do that here the ones who have land and private ponds/tanks .they say a good way to tell on when to do this is if you keep catching fish but they’re all the same size it means there growth stunted because of not enough food and it’s good to cull a few they still don’t eat the bass though they eat the catfish and crappie and you start to catch some huge bass... but I do mean small private ponds don’t go taking small fish out of public fisheries now !
Cesar Morales
some public fisheries actually want that, but that will be detailed in the state regulations for certain bodies of water.
Thanks guys for having a grown up conversation here
Cesar Morales it's better to eat the smaller(younger) fish, lower levels of toxins and heavy metals for one, and young meat is just plain better than old gamey giant fish flesh.
Man your camera is so badass watching the vid everything just pops it's like actually being there when viewing it
My kids (now in their 20's) and I fish a 40 acre lake (30 ft. deep) in northern WI with lg. and small mouth bass. No motors in the lake and you can see 15 ft. down. The lake is land locked and I have not bought a license in about 20 years. It is a spring fed lake and very clean. We can usually catch 7 or 8 keeper fish in an hour. I use the same recipe and the fish taste awesome. The lake used to have big gills, sun fish and the occasional crappie. Now we only see bass and they seem to be smaller than back in the 80's. The lake needs to be fished more to allow the bass to grow. Back in the early 60's, walleye were introduced but they slowly went away. I think most people that wouldn't consider eating bass have only tasted bass from an over boated, oily water lake contaminated by pollution. Clean bass cooked properly are very good!
For years and years I tossed back all bass. I was told they were not a good eating fish. I was certainly lied too. I like to keep the smaller ones. Absolutely delicious.
Most people that have ponds with bass eat the small ones to keep them from overpopulating the pond. They taste excellent. Once they get big (4-5 lbs) they don't taste as good, and you wanna keep them in your pond for fun anyways.
i heard florida Crappie slabs are giants! catch and cook a giant crappie!
bro he did in his older vids. he went up to north florida and caught some nice slabs
Jake Lieberman cool I gotta look it up!
The roe is tasty fried too
raWr Fishing man crappie is some good eating! One of my fav fish to eat!
they are pretty good ^_^
at 3:20 I was expecting it to start singing " Take me to the river".
I’ve been catching and cooking bass all my life, always confused when people get upset😂
Like bass is good as hell if your perception on the fish is the same as any other- the moment you think it’s a trash fish, it turns into a trash fish
Largemouth imho is a decent fish for the table as long as it is close to the limit size. As they get larger/older just let them go for the next angler to catch. Apex predators in many American lakes build up toxins as they age. I think spots actually taste better, maybe because they are usually legal to harvest at a smaller size. Love the video man!
That's ethical fishing. No problem with taking a bass for food.
Tasted bass for the first time after being one of those people who were like “no release the largemouths” let me tell you...I was brainwashed! It is truly one of the better fish I have ever eaten! Mixed my with salt, pepper, panko break crumb mix, and milk and then fried!
So you are not really tasting the fish, you should be able to eat a fish without doing all those things.
@@jorgedalessandro7917 You can taste the fish regardless. Get over yourself
All of the comments on this video are people asking why everyone is against eating bass and none of the comments are against eating bass
awesome! bass got an earthy element, so they take up scent/flavor in the water they are in. So it can potentially be bad if u fish from a muddy swamp.
raWr Fishing Yea, alligator is exactly like it. The fat on alligator tastes like the place they live in
Wesley Shadoan never say I had gators but ... catch and cook gator next for our florida buddy here?
Same with talapia
I bass fish all the time and usually release everything I catch but there are times I go out with dinner on my mind. I only keep the fish if I'm going to eat it right away. Sometimes I feel bad and let the fish go before I leave. Not because I think killing fish for food is wrong, but they're such a fun fish to catch that I just feel like letting them live.
I love fishing the reservoir for bass, and I deep fry the whole fish taste so goooood.
I always eat largemouth bass why is it “bad”
I don't really see anything "wrong" with it. For me it's mainly been a catch and release type fish, so to me it seems unorthodox to eat it. What does it taste like though?
The Skeptical Carrot actually tastes really good! I eat it almost whenever I go fishing, put an egg on it, bread it and then fry it up in butter and lemon
@@tylervanniekerk6159 thank you for answering! I'll be sure to try it sometime.
@@theskepticalcarrot7199 I caught and cooked one last summer.. to be honest they're not great but they're alright. the meat is pretty tough and chewy compared to other fish and tastes a little muddy, but its not terrible and certainly is edible .
mainly people catch and realese them because they are a sport fish but I think there is nothing wrong with eating them
Look up “Godwins mustard fried crappie” and cook the bass filets exactly like he does. Man that is some of the best fried fish you will ever eat
Catch and cook are the best you inspire me to start making my first catch and cook vid this weekend
Thanks for not letting that fish die for for no reason.
A gator would have had it for lunch
Asianinvasion123 someone always have to get triggered
Thank you for being honest about the taste. Other videos they say it tastes bad mainly because they have no idea how to cook it.... lol. I eating love bass , but I usually catch and release
Right thing to do by not wasting the fish
I actually go fishing for bass to eat. It's a good eat
The taste and texture reminds me a lot of crappie. I think it tastes better than crappie, not as gritty.
Great video, nothing wrong with eating bass, there are plenty of them in the lakes and rivers everywhere I lived. If I do eat them I usually eat the smaller ones about 12" long and in the early spring when the water is colder they usually taste a little better.
I usually deep fry mine after a shake in in self rising flour, kinda like what you did with the bread crumbs, no eggs though, seasoned with Tony Chachere's creole and black pepper, with a bit more garlic powder. Or if I'm wanting a lighter flavor, just salt, lemon pepper, and garlic powder. What other ways do you guys cook fish? Love to exchange some tips and tricks for cooking up these bad boys.
There's a reason bass is called "green trout." Because it tastes damn good.
I used to turn wrenches in a boat shop and the guys would give me a hard time cause I kept bass to eat. I would do fish frys with the bass I saved up and tell the bass fisherman that it was catfish. They raved about it. Saying it was the best fish they ever had.
If you catch large mouth bass in clear water creeks. They taste really really great.
Chances are they have had a fantastic diet of trout, salmon, even walleye where I live. They do not taste murky at all I’ve had some that were just as good as walleye, as hard as that is to believe.
Dang man your brave. lol. Hey it's legal and not on a bed I got no problem with it. Most people don't realize it helps a fishery. Especially the size you took. Largemouth are the worst of the black bass Spotted bass are as good as crappie.
Being in the South I was more shocked people didn't realize they were edible and perfectly fine to keep.
spotted is actually really nice, i do keep a them if they are the right size to keep
In the north I can say I never seen a spotted bass only largemouth and smallmouth and largemouth up here tastes damn good
Eating the ones off beds are the best. I target and eat those specific ones all the time
I eat bass all the time when i catch a mess of them. Of course, I'm from southeastern Mississippi, where fish is almost always a big part of a person's diet here. Largemouth bass, bream, crappie, warmouth, channel and blue catfish, white perch, smallmouth, all kinda fish we eat here, and I see no shame in doing what you just did. If they do shame you, then shame on them for misjudging such a fine fisherman and meal. Some of the best fish I've ever eaten, and it's probably my favorite other than catfish.
I live in Miami.Florida..so I've been eating Bass from the Glades for over 30yrs..Love It especially with a cold Corona 2 wash it down with.
I literally just ate some largemouth before I watched this video 😂
your voice gives me hope to travel and fish the world, keep it up!
With the exception of Tarpon, the very essence of being a "game" fish is in it's suitability as table fare. A great example is the Walleye: often tight lipped, and certainly not revered for its aggressive behavior or it's fighting prowess, it is considered a game fish none the less.
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Baked bass is the best in my opinion. Filet, place in shallow baking dish with butter, lemon juice, lemon pepper, blackened seasoning, onion powder and garlic powder. Bake for 20 minutes on 350 degrees. Melt in your mouth!
It's about time someone fried some bass fish! Looks tasty!
This is my first time watching your channel and I gotta say you peaked my interest in fishing and cooking it by myself, might try it myself someday when I have the time. Subscribed and looking forward for more
I'm going fishing for the first time soon. So excited
Respect for not tossing the bass and cutting the video out. There's always next time, can't wait to try it myself.
You should see how many people eat bass down here in Louisiana 😂.My favorite fish to eat.
I fish to eat what I catch. I don't understand why people would be so freaked out by eating fish you catch. You did the right thing eating it...
Soak the fillet in milk overnight. Then prepare it. The milk takes out the “bass-ness”.
The “bass-ness” is what makes it so tastey
It depends on how bad you gill hook them as well as the fish species but they can survive a gill hook
All these haters in the comments like who cares you can eat any fish if you want if it’s legal than you can eat it. I’m 15 fish with my family and we can take 5 bass per person and I been catching fish since I was 4 and we keep and eat them. Great vid dude keep it up👍
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Omg you actually liked this I been a sub for awhile and wish to meet you and go fishing someday I live here in California and got some good spots here
I have no issue eating bass and I think this is a great video. I can understand why some people get so butthurt but at the same time I don’t. Largemouth is like any other native fish and they actually taste really good, now anything over a certain size I’m gunna throw back just because it’s also a sport to me. I’m not saying everytime I bass fish ima keep one ide say a couple times a year I’d cook one up but definitely the bigger bass I toss back
My mouth is watering so much lol
Rip Gary
Ive never gill hooked a bass before surprisingly
Mesquite smoked a whole eleven pounder out of choke canyon reservoir. And yes, it was dead after it hit the ice. Salt, pepper, and plenty of butter. No complaints from the family
In Pennsylvania we do it in a pan with a little Suger white wine then just butter. NE PA POOR MAN'S LOBSTER 😉 Delicious!
I personally love bass, I think it taste great
I have never caught a bass but whene I do I will definitely catch and cook if he is a good size thanks for the video bro
@TallFishermanJ How did you transport the bass filets back home? Did you put them in a bag of ice or something or just throw them in a plastic bag?
Ice
Bass are some of my favorite fish to eat. Never really understood why people hate eating them. I mean I get throwing them back for people who want to catch them as a sport
Bass is delicious! The bass in fresh water Northern California is great! Maybe if other caught it in different water, it would taste different, but I bass fish all day and take one home with me for dinner. 👍🎣😃❤️
I just got into fishing I’m trying to figure out why people don’t eat bass? Soon as I catch a bass It’s going on my grill
If you still haven't caught one then try fishing with large nightcrawlers
They don’t because they aren’t supposed to taste that good. They take a very long time to grow big too.
Use live shiners 🪝
I’ve eaten bass. Lower Columbia river downstream of Hanford. So, I glow now. 🤢 But the fish wasn’t that bad. Oh, it stunk! But what fish doesn’t, coming out of the Columbia? The thought of eating Carp is a stretch, but I’d do it in a pinch. Squaw fish-NOPE.
I remember when I cooked the bass the heart was still beating outside the fish; and I diced it up, and each piece was beating in unison. That’s how heart meat works. It’s on a primordial clock. The nerves still function on a basal level not attached to the central system. Because God.
Looks like the only thing I'm going to be eating for the next 12:14 is a pan full of hate comments 😂😂
I always eat bass, it’s so good, why are people so against it? Haha
Crappie catch and cook will be litt!!!!!!¡
I normally wouldnt condone bass catch and cook but what can you do if you gill hook em. Nice vid bro
j fishslayer Its no less table fare than any other "native" fish. Just because people like catching them doesnt mean you cant target them for food. Silly mentality
Kodiak I second that I catch and release many years and took some home and they are tasty
If you want to target bass to eat thats on you . But bass arent stocked like all other species where i live. If i want to eat fish i target other species or go to the store and by salmon.
I see alot of people catching bass off beds and keeping them to in some local lakes shit is just not cool to me
j fishslayer I think as long as you don’t kill the spawning fish that it is ok I agree with you though people shouldn’t kill any spawning fish
I just can't believe it took you gill hooking a bass to try it that's crazy I have so many memorys growing up eating them in Canada definitely one of my favourite fish to eat keep the catch and cook coming!!! They're amazing with just some lemon on them no breading or anything
Finally a catch and cook on Bass but you know what? They taste good.
Thats awesome you didnt let him go to waste , num nums
I've kept small bass to eat in the past. In some instances it's good to weed out the small ones and lessen the competition for food. It's basic management.
The lake I fish most has an overpopulation of small bass, so we've been taking out a lot over the past few years. We don't keep anything over 15", but the small ones taste pretty good. We also eat a lot of crappie, and they taste very similar.
Hey, don’t be afraid to keep fish. The ones that fish and don’t eat it are the weird ones 😂 it was initially for meat to survive + it’s just all around fun to do and that’s the part that became a sport but you can still eat
What's the music called when you fillet the bass on the boat
Can't believe you never had bass, its delicious. black sea bass is some of the best fish i ever ate.
we eat bass all the time fried or baked especially with a lot of lemon salt and tomatoe slices super good
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That was the perfect size to eat I wouldn’t suggest eating them if they over the 16 inch mark! I find those 14-16 inch are the best tasting! Awesome video
oh crap you gonna get demonitized for showing when preparing the fish. Another channel I follow got served recently for it. Just a heads up for the future cause I love what you do :)
Appreciate the heads up ive done a ton of these and luckily havent gotten the wrath of youtube but ill keep an eye out !
Yeah they seem to be pretty picky, that channel has a bit more followers but you're way up there too so I can't see why thay wont mess with you too soon. Really hope they dont tho! Keep up the great work man! :)
Tarpon if you can take them home
Nahh he's good
Catch Em All Fishing you’re great !! 😂😂 love your vids man.
Ive gill hooked bass before, and if you keep giving them air every 20-30 seconds, it’ll keep em alive. Sometimes it just kills em if its hooked in more than one gill line. Great video lol.
Limit here is 15 inches and we have a possession limit of 5 per day. You bet your ass I limit out as often as I can. They aren’t endangered nowhere near threatened and they are GOOD! I fish for food just as much as I do for fun. Some of us try to buy as little as possible from the stores and truly provide for ourselves.
Everyone says people hate but in every vid no one says anything but don’t hate and b don’t see the haters
I think the best way to eat bass if you find yourself in a situation like that is in the form of nuggets actually. They have an excellent consistency for it as well as providing thick fillets. If they're fried and seasoned well, just squeeze a little bit of lemon over it and some greens and they're great to eat.
Come up north and catch walleye! You'd loose your mind at how good it is. Just do like a northern USA trip, catch pike, walleye, rock bass, big smallies, etc.
Yesterday a 21" (I measured it) large mouth bass beached itself right next to my campsite. Its stomach was bulging because it had eaten something too big. I waited to see if it would recover. If not, the plan: cook it up.
I went to do something for about ten minutes. When I returned to the fish it was gone.
There were coyote tracks in the wet sand, right to where the fish had been.
Bomb ass video, some crispy ass bass in the hot ass oil in a hot ass pan, good ass shit.😂 Keep up the good ass content.
eat what u catch!
Im a bass southern fisherman and i was raised to eat bass like a delicacy, so to this day i catch bass and eat em on a regular
Matter fact ima catch n cook one tomorrow because this video made me hungry
Enjoy your Catch and Cook videos. While fishing for trout in one of our local lakes, I caught a rather big Largemouth bass, somewhere between 2 - 3 pounds. Took it home and fixed for dinner that night. Instead of fileting it as you did, I made one slit across the throat, cleaned it out real good. Next put it in the refrigerator while I prepared the Wild rice stuffing. Leaving the head on, so the stuffing would not spill out, I placed it on some foil, put some butter with it, then sealed the foil shut. Cooked it for about five minutes at 350 degrees, opening it once to baste the fish with its juices. at this point I added a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, then let it finish cooking. When finished I took it to the table and unwrapped it peeling off one side and spooning the wild rice out I shared this with my mother who I happened to be caring for at the time. It was one delicious dish. Have done the same treatment with some large trout I had caught. Just cannot beat fresh caught fish for a meal. Have several ways that I prepare my fresh fish. Cannot wait until you do the pickerel catch and cook.
someone i know said Largemouth Bass was terrible to eat, but i guess he just didn't cook it right. Now i get to send this video to him!