First off, I'm a bass fisherman and have been for decades. Bass (to me) are just as sacred as are walleye to a walleye man... Secondly, I've eaten very few bass, but will on occaision when I'm on vacation and have a number of people wanting to eat fish (10 in this case). So I have no problem eating a LM bass on the rare occaision... sorry if that offends you.