My folks love bass, so when about every other trip.  If I can actually catch them...

I keep'em whenever I feel like eating bass, which hasn't been in about 2 decades.

I'm already looking forward to having a winter fish fry this year. A co-worker and I were talking tonight about catching a mess of Okeechobee speck when it gets cold out. I'm sure a bass or two might fall into the bucket as well.

it doesnt get cold down there!

whenever my wife tells me to,,,she says fish fry,,,i bring fish,,,always selective harvest, never trophys

I'm like one of the guys above. I like pretty much any fish for eatin (besides carp). I'll keep bass every once in a while if I'm not stocked up on crappie in the freezer.

I don't keep big, old bass. Better to keep them spawning I think.

Most of the lakes I fish, it's illegal to keep anything 12-15" and the minimum is 15".

whenever my wife tells me to,,,she says fish fry,,,i bring fish,,,always selective harvest, never trophys

Same for me!!

i personally never keep bass...not even if they are gonna die...why??...one i really don't like bass and it would actually be more of a waste if i eat it...why??...because nothing in nature is ever wasted...if said bass is released & dies...it will feed something else...turtles, birds, raccoons, mink and whatever else...that just may need it more than I...

thats my story & i'm stickin to it

p.s edit i just noticed you said bout the same thing Albasser...

x2...or 3

I never keep them. Even if they're bleeding, dying, or dead, they go right back into the lake. Something will eat 'em.

that's how i feel !!! have never eaten a bass , never will ..... i ALWAYS catch and release , ALWAYS .....  

I usually don't keep fish because I fish for the fun of it and enjoy being out on the water. If I had to keep a few because my parents ask me to bring home fish or if they get hooked badly, I'll keep it. As others have mentioned, none will be over 2 1/2-3lb size.

Also, there are better tasting fish to keep. Bass is not one of them.

I kept a 7lber I caught 2 weeks ago and tossed it on ice. I was out around dusk getting ready to spotlight deer when I saw the fish swirl. Got it on a live minnow. We had barely got the cooler lid closed on the fish when a couple Bald Eagles flew within shooting range so we dropped them too. We wound up gut shooting around 6 deer later that night but could never find any of them. Hard to figure too, as much as they were bleeding. Anyway.

This past Sunday was a great Fish and fowl day for the smoker.

Never.  I like the taste of cat, crappie, and bluegill a whole lot better.

I keep them if I'm ice fishing (the only time I use live bait) and they are gut hooked and bleeding.  I'm not a big fan of the taste of the bass I catch in the summer, but bass caught through the ice taste pretty good.

Last winter I tried a new lake and was pulling in quite a few bass, mostly in the 3-5 lb range.  If they were lip hooked I threw them back. The rest  I felt kind of bad watching these nice sized fish die on the ice, but they did make for some nice meals.

I will keep a bass if it is deeply hooked, other wise it will go back. They don't taste so good...haha...

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Never. I don't like eating fish, but I do like catching them!

never keep anything, used to, just don't do it anymore

For me its never. Even if something bad like that happends, and it does happen sometimes and it hate it, (I am a CPR fisherman) I release the fish. I belive in the food chain. Where I am from you really should not eat ANY freshwater fish, so it goes back for a preditor to eat. Again, that's just my opinion.

looks like this thread would have been a good one for a poll