Made a pass around a 15 acre lake this morning nothing big but caught over 40 and kept 28 , hitting on June bug and green pumpkin plastics

I eat those bass. Perfect size

… good mess partner

Well done that’s a great trip, we eat a lot of bass here so fun to catch and good eating. Congrats

Holy crap, what the catch limit?

Looks like a great way to spend a morning!

Bass are fine eating

Nice haul, I always liked to eat bass. Apparently there is no catch limit on bass in Illinois.

What would you compare bass to, taste wise?

I've tried it 2x in 47 years and it tasted like mud both times.

I've always wondered. Don't see many people keeping them around here.

Yea sir!! Anything under 15” goes in the cooler. Gonna be a heck of a fish fry, I’m jealous!

Crappie. To me they taste basically the same. Cut a bass and crappie into square pieces the same size and thickness and fry them, they'll be identical in flavor and texture

Nice job!

they taste good this time off year out your guys way? All I ever fished was farm pond in the Midwest and they always tasted poorly in the summer months

Small bass are good. Big bass not so much.
Put them straight on ice when ya catch them helps a bunch also.
I love having some bass pro’s watch me sink a knife in one lol.

If Illinois is like Missouri, there’s no limit on a private pond. Limits only apply on waters of the state.

We have a few ponds like that where we have to thin once a year. Normally about 40+ from one pond and over 20+ for the others. We end up having some rather large fish fry’s with some left over to take home.

I fillet and skin them. Then we cut the fillets at an angle, making thin, small slices, We fry them up crisp like Bluegills and the taste is very similar.

Moosetrot

Small bass are just fine table fare.

Nice catch

I bleed mine. They have a milder taster. The filets are whiter.