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[Walleyedmike]

What is the best method for cleaning a bass, blue? Wouldn't you just fillet it out like a walleye or crappie?

WM

[blue79]

I fillet bass just like crappie and i cut out anything that aint white.I look at my fillets and if i see red or yellow or a grey color i cut it out.Catfish chunks i soak in white vinegar and water for 5-10 minutes and rinse them real good before i cook them and they taste as clean as crappie or walleye.They dont have the sweet taste as crappie but they are clean and have no foul taste.When i fillet a white bass i end up filleting the top of the fillet cause they always had the red markings in the meat.I seen a guy showing how to clean fish at walmart once and he said to hold the fish with one hand and the knife with another,and to never touch the fillet with the hand that held the fish.He said that the smell of the fish gets on the fillet.Kinda made sense to me.Ive heard alot of people say they dont like bass but i do.Nice clean flakey fish.We have 5-gallon filtered water bottles and i soak my fillets in that water instead of tap water.I use Harold Ensley Fish Batter.I think all fish tastes good if its cleaned and prepared right.

[car salesman kenny]

I have found that with white bass witch I don't like much but any way if you put the fillets in half water and half seven up and ice the taste a lot like crappie let it set till the ice is gone that's the only way l eat whites

[charliehorsejigs]

I heard a recipe for cooking carp. Here it is:

Soak cedar board in water

Clean carp

Place carp on board

Place on grill

When carp is cooked thoroughly, throw it away and eat board.

[Haulin Bass]

LOL,, RECIPE FOR CARP, CHUNK IT UP AND GO FISHIN' FOR CATFISH!

OMG,,,that's about as nasty as eating Gar Patties!

[Haulin Bass]

BASS, has a really hardy, thick flavor, it's alot like Shark! I lived in Florida, and also caught Megabass, but the Bass were quite gamie down there. And the Shark were really good, not to mention, it's cheep to buy too!

But I fillet my bass, soak them in a milk and egg bath. And I make sure all the red meat on the side is scraped off. But the key is in the cleaning, if you've got crap on your fish when you cook it, it will taste like crap when you eat it!

Then I chunk them up like fish sticks, and fry them in Walmart Brand "fish fry" in the blue packs or boxes.

My secret is my homemade tartar sauce. But I ain't givin' that up!

[Haulin Bass]

Caught 6 keepers an Saturday. (Large Mouth.) Biggest one one 19-1/2" .

These fish were all close to shore and hitting live bait!

5 were female, and the big one was a male.

AND ALL OF THEME WERE LOADED WITH CRAB!

The one female had 6 crabbs in her belly, 2 catfish minnows, and she still hit my bait!

Would have been more fun in 70 degree weather, but hey, it's still MArch.

[rs00765605]

Loaded with crab??

[blue79]

Thats what happens when everyone swims in the lake.The fish get crabs

[SmallyWally]

I'd blame them on those jet-skiers.