Thread: smallmouth bass

BDL I get a few walleye but havent really figured out how to catch them constantly. They run in the part of the river that I'm just not comfortable putting my kayak in or my small flat bottom. Guys with big bass boats seem to try and swamp kayaks and smaller boats

Walleyes can be a bit of a challenge. The guys in the "big" bass boats are over compensating for something....

Originally Posted by CarlF

Actually, Smallmouths are in the same genus as largemouth, spots, etc..: Micropterus sp

Bream are Lepomis sp.

White perch, white bass, yellow bass and Stripers (and hybrids) are the "true basses", Morone sp.



Either way, they are all tasty when fried up!

YES! All are in the family "Fryemupis" ;-)

Originally Posted by Pier#r

YES! All are in the family "Fryemupis" ;-)

Haha!

I'm gonna have to keep you hungry folks away from my fish tanks!

Some years ago I started dividing larger bass and crappie filets into four or five smaller pieces, especially bass. Splitting the filet makes it easier to get the salt and Cajun seasoning into the meat. It cooks faster and to my brood, tastes better. Smallmouth were regular table fare for us when we lived on Table Rock. Fished the kings river a bunch too....never tried the elk river....

The Elk River in North Alabama is a feeder into the Tennessee River and is loaded with smallmouth, largemouth, crappie, bream, flathead, blue and channel cat. I have always wanted to try eating smallmouth but keeping them is sort of frowned on. Most everyone I know catch and release bass but keep and eat the others.

too mushy of meat for me, I am spoiled with the crappie and walleye (maybe at certain times of the year the meat might be firmer )