Best way of cookin bass???

[hunlee]

Hunlee is wanting to know the best way for cooking bass???Wife of Hunlee allways deep fry them for Hunlee but hunlee now has fat belly and doctor say for Hunlee to loose weight!!!Wonder if bass is ok for Hunlee baked???Hunlee eat about all the bass that come to Hunlee boat except for when Hunlee is in tournament.Please try to help Hunlee as Hunlee want to be rid of fat belly!!!

hunlee

[djkimmel]

Hunlee need to let bass go and take long walks with wife... try a nice fresh salad too maybe?

[Skulley]

Hunlee, you need to release the Bass and keep the Walleye.  I'm with DK, try long walks with the wife.  Walleye are lower in calories anyway and taste way better.

BD         

[1javelin]

Hunlee need to eat more northern pike and release all bass.  Otherwise certain people may one day try to eat Hunlee

1Jav

[robtheboatman]

Get some nice fillets, and put them on a cedar plank.  Cook over charcoal until nice and flakey.  Then throw away the bass and eat the plank (it will probably taste better).  I love catching them, but have no desire to eat them.  Especialy with all of the perch and bluegills around

[cr]

Hunlee , the healthiest way is don't cook it at all , as in ...SUSHI

[skeeterman190]

 Hunlee need to take touranment winnnings and take wife to dinner. Get a big ole prime rib and some shrimp with the money you win from them tourneys. so youll see the better side of life. Keeping those bass and next thing you know...you and the ole lady are getting hot dogs and bologna far cry from prime rib and shrimp.... throw em back.. i hear sheepshead taste like chicken.thats low fat!!!!-skeeterman-

[10-10 Bass Busters]

Filet boneless clean with cold cold water to firm up filet.  Put in bag or container and drizzle with olive oil and a bit of white wine(or beer but gives it a totally different taste).  Shake garlic salt and parmesan cheese on them.  Place them in fridge for at least 6 to 24 hours..the longer they sit the more flavor they soak up.  Place them on some tin foil dump any remaining juice on each filet, put a little salt and pepper and more parmesan cheese and a small amount of butter on them, put them in the oven at 350 or place the tin foil on the grill.  When the fish flakes away enjoy!!!   

[Skip Johnson]

30 some odd years ago when I started tournament fishing with my father we didnt always practice catch and release and when we did we still had a few fish die in the livewell so I grew up eating bass, we dipped them in egg and rolled the fillets in ritz crackers and it wasnt bad but I couldnt think of any other way to make it not taste fishy.

I know your looking for another way other than frying but what about changing oil's?
maybe try baking in olive oil or italian dressing then some lemon juice?

I personely wouldnt kill a bass for eating nor have I ate one in about 20 years and Id ask that you not kill them either BUT that is your call and you have every right to do so without critisicm.

I recomend that you take the dead bass from tournaments and let the healthy fish go, if you let the tournament director know in the morning youd probobly get some plus I bet if you showed up at weigh inns in tournaments that you dont fish and ask the directer for a couple fresh deads youd get plenty of fish from them as well and would be helping assure the fish is not wasted.

[cameraguy]

I recommend eating the dead tournament bass, as well.  Rejuvenade and Please Release Me make for some mighty tasty marinade.  Yum.

[fowlmouth]

Didn't someone say Rejuvinade is mostly garlic? add some butter and maybe a few capers to your livewell, then knock the sides off the dead ones and grill 'em up!

[djkimmel]

I imagine it would not hurt St. Clair to thin the herd a little. There are a small percentage of bass being kept by regular anglers out there. I'm not so sure about Erie at the moment. Not sure anyone else is either... it's a big lake.

But... I have a feeling hunlee is a red meat and potato's kind of guy actually and too busy being friend to all and fighting off women from what he says... does he really have time left over to fish??

[dashaver63]

Only time I ever fried up a bass, I had every cat in the neighborhood at my house. Walleye, perch, gill, crappie etc. are much better.

[djkimmel]

Cold water helps and smallies are better (from my childhood memories of when we ate everything and I mean EVERYTHING... well, except dogfish although there was this little old lady in Sunfield who had a dogfish recipe...??), but yes, walleye and panfish taste much better. Catfish too. I know people who love to eat pike, but I never really liked them. Strong flavor and too many bones a lot of the time.

[bassinman#1]

Catch some of these and you won't eat bass no more.

[hunlee]

Hi there Hunlee here!!!Hunlee want you to all know that all fish are good for hunlee to eat but Hunlee like to eat bass the best of all....Hunlee will through back some of the small one but when hunlee get a four of five pounder Hunlee will put her in the live well for dinner...Hunlee love to eat bass!!!State law say that Hunlee can have five bass per day and this is what Hunlee take home as Hunlee get a limit most day when not in tournament.....Five nice bass and Hunlee will eat good for a couple of day!!!Hunlee really like small mouth the best of all bass...Three,four and five pounder go home with Hunlee and the wife and kid love them aswell

hunlee

[djkimmel]

Hunlee - the smaller bass are better to eat and the bigger bass make more smaller bass faster which means more bigger bass later. Question - you live somewhere near Gowen, don't you?

[blakstr1]

A few years back at the last Michigan Bass Federation State Championship that was held on Lake Charlevoix, the little lakeside restaurant cooked up a few smallmouth that didn't survive after day 1.  I was walking by and the cook asked me if I wanted to try some, he couldn't sell it, didn't have the proper liscensing to sell fresh catch but he gave me a plate full.  He said the key was to cube it up, he used about 1.5" sq. cubes completely covered in batter and deep fried. He also said he soaked it for a minute or two in ice water before he dipped them in the batter mix.  I still remembered he used Tony Chachere's Cereole mix, it was outstanding.  Hands down that was some of the finest fresh fish I have ever eaten, but haven't eaten it since then.  Like Savage told me right after that, its like eating one of our own, like a GM worker putting 100,000 miles on an import..just not right.  For now I'll stick to pike, walleye, and perch....but would definitely eat a couple smallmouth a year...someday.

[Durand Dan]

None of the Bass I caught today looked very appetizing

[matt]

Me think hunlee's just trying to stir up a storm.

Never liked the taste of bigger bass....it's like eating a catfish sucking up poop all day.