Went out to my local lake where I have been smacking bass lately...had a tip the panfish were pushed up. Ended up catching a decent amount of crappie with some bluegill mixed in. Even got a 12 and a 14 inch crappie..big for around here. I let the big girls go and kept enough eaters for a fish fry tomorrow.

Zatarans is my favorite breading

   Try this. You might like it. It's a dipping sauce for fish.

 

   2 Tablespoons Thai or Korean hot sauce.

   1 Tablespoon Karo syrup

   cut with white wine vinegar to taste (I use 1/2 tablespoon minimum.)

   2 Tablespoons crushed scallions.

  

   Mix. Let set at least an hour at room temperature or over night in the fridge.       jj

 

  

 

  

I ate two white bass for appetizer yesterday mmmmmmmm

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I ate two white bass for appetizer yesterday mmmmmmmm

ICK!

This is crappie season. No reason to eat trash fish.

 

1 minute ago, roadwarrior said:

ICK!

This is crappie season. No reason to eat trash fish.

 

My girlfriend says crappie are the trash fish 

Okay...

Besides saltwater, I love walleye, yellow perch, sauger, stripper, crappie and yellow cats.

Maybe I have caught a thousand white bass or more, but the first time I ate one was the 

last time.

 

36 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Okay...

Besides saltwater, I love walleye, yellow perch, sauger, stripper, crappie and yellow cats.

Maybe I have caught a thousand white bass or more, but the first time I ate one was the 

last time.

 

White bass is a lot of people's favorite in my neck of the woods, to each his own. Crappie tastes fine to me but girlfriend can't get past the mushy texture. White bass is firm flaky fish and if you eat if fresh, it's hard to beat. The only bad ones I've ever had were in the freezer too long 

 

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

Okay...

Besides saltwater, I love walleye, yellow perch, sauger, stripper, crappie and yellow cats.

Maybe I have caught a thousand white bass or more, but the first time I ate one was the 

last time.

 

I don't think you can beat yellow cat (what foreigners call flatheads).  Everyone raves about crappie, sauger, and walleye and I like um but nothing taste better than catfish to me.  I keep saying I'm gonna try asian carp but so far I've never been in the mood when one jumped in the boat.

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

ICK!

This is crappie season. No reason to eat trash fish.

 

White bass aren't bad as long as you only eat the backstraps. The belly meat is nasty.

I actually just fried up some bluegill with some morels I found this morning

12 minutes ago, slonezp said:

White bass aren't bad as long as you only eat the backstraps. The belly meat is nasty.

I’ve also never found this to be the case. Preconceived notions are the white bass biggest enemy, I’ve fried thousands of them for Hundreds of friends and family and they all want to know when is next time. When we have crappie AND white bass frying, non fishermen prefer white bass 99% of the time. Only avid anglers say crappie is better, thus preconceived notions drive their opinions because they’ve seen the difference in color of the raw meat and heard all the untruths about how nasty they are for years and years. The scientific experiment has already been done, fellas 

If I had a choice between Specks (crappie) and bream, Id take the bream. I have had some sunshine bass( Cross between striper and white bass) and i haven’t felt the urge to have it again.
I love catfish also in fresh water.

There at least a dozen fish I commonly eat from saltwater.My favorite overall is red snapper. A close second is Sheephead. We also eat a lot of flounder and redfish. Making me hungry. 
We are having some bass filets ( bass tastes good to me if it’s filleted.) and some whiting for our bi-weekly fish fry tomorrow. !