So when can/should I start keeping some fish? I do not want to keep any males that are guarding eggs, but I am catching alot of smaller 1-2 lb. bass in my neighborhood lakes and want to start harvesting some of them so other will get bigger.

If you in va you should be fine

I am, and thanks for the reply. didn't think this one was gonna get answered. Talk about eating bass and you get ignored

I am, and thanks for the reply. didn't think this one was gonna get answered. Talk about eating bass and you get ignored

I love Bass. Ideally pan fried with a mix of flour, corn meal, salt and pepper but not too much oil. The larger ones are great baked with butter parsly and lemon. Do you have any chef worthy recipes for them?

Keeping the bucks no matter what time of year won't hurt your bass population, in fact it should help it.