Lots of them around the California Delta, but the big ones are often full of mercury, and most say to C&R and let them breed.
I've enjoyed it myself, simply baked with some soy sauce & panko bread crumbs on top
Patrick, I find that anything under 25 pounds is pretty much guaranteed to be great for the table, but as with about everything, the smaller ones are a bit more tasty. But then maybe that's more psychological.
Actually, depending on preparation/cooking method, I think the reality is likely that in cooking through a thick slab to get the interior cooked right, the outer flesh suffers from overcooking. As such, big fish I don't cook whole, as in on the grill--which is dynamite with only S&P, rosemary, thyme and EVOO on a just legal bass--or in steaks or thick filets, but rather in chunks or cut down slices.
I can tell you that when we sell bass commercially, size doesn't play any part in ppp. Big or small, as long as it's a legal fish, they buyers take them at market price for all.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
As I'm sure you know, stripers in the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waters is big business here.
Well aware of it. The 'rockfish', crab and arsters down there are legendary. Not to mention the hallowed duck grounds... Which reminds me: if another year passes without an invitation from you to come to try to kill some ducks, I'm putting you on ignore. You feel me, counselor?
I swear if I didn't know better I'd be tempted to think some of you boys south of the Mason Dixon MAKE me act the dickhead Yankee role. Publicly begging an invite is so lame. I am shamed. So where we going again?
I swear if I didn't know better I'd be tempted to think some of you boys south of the Mason Dixon MAKE me act the dickhead Yankee role. Publicly begging an invite is so lame. I am shamed. So where we going again?
Just perusing some local reports, and saw this posted on a board I frequent. This fish, undoubtedly a female, was taken by a local islander fishing out of CT on a day charter. Broke the magical 50 lb. easy, I'm sure, though I didn't see that an actual weight was taken. It was 51 1/2 � in length and 29 1/2 � in girth. Beautiful slob of a bass, eh?
One of these days I will get my holy grail of bass on the deck. Congrats to the angler. Fish was taken on a trolled bucktail, likely simulating a squid, which bass will readily feed on.
Roger, you gettin' ready or what?
Dat dude wit that fish looks like he could be Georges [NHK9] brother , nice fish BTW.
im headed offshore this coming thrursday, ill take the go pro.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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, nice fish BTW.