Can you eat Rock bass, the lesser of all bass?? 2025
Bass-mania reply :
Can you eat Rock bass, are they good for something after all? 
:D
c_diesel2 reply :
Sure...you can eat carp, suckers and sheepshead also...but i sure wouldnt....... 
Cephkiller reply :
Yep. they taste almost exactly like a bluegill. I had some as recently as last year.
bassnleo reply :
I'm gonna have to start keepin some of the slab rockies that we have been catching on Lake Erie........
Jig Man reply :
We have them here in MO, mainly in streams. We call them goggle eye. They are small but quite tasty.
Bassassasin12 reply :
what is up with those things. My favorite pond is loaded with them. They will hit just about anything but they tend to love worms longer than they are! ;D
XcoM274 reply :
I'm quite sure you can eat just about any freshwater gamefish, carp included. But my desire would be low. Rock bass happens to be really good by my experience 
burleytog reply :
I've eaten many a redeye in my day.
Garnet reply :
Rock Bass are great eating. Carb you hold them in a tank and keep changing the water until it stays clean.
Garnet
guest reply :
I ate a rock bass once.
Broke two teeth.
NBR reply :
My fishing buddy's father preferred them over everything else!
Red reply :
my parents would eat them all the time if i caught them back in NY, but i have also heard that they got a bad rap from being full of worms, but i never saw any while cleaning them
Dan: reply :
I've never actually tried to eat them because I heard they were bony. After hearing some of the other comments, it seems that might be incorrect.
jdw174 reply :
Absolutely great eating. If you like bluegill, perch, crappie, you'll like the ol' goggle-eye.
DR_Bass reply :
QuoteI ate a rock bass once.Broke two teeth.
Someone is always going to crack a joke... ;D
flyphisher # reply :
some of the same folks that bash anyone that says anything about eating a largemouth, talk about how tasty redeyes and rocks bass are???????? : : whats up with thatt???? Do you also eat wild trout???? Last time I checked LMB and SMB are stocked by the state..Nice logic...redeyes and their relatives are not..On the brink of endangerment in some places... Redeyes, Piedmonts,and Suwanees, the only native fish in alot of places... Had some of the best days ever with a flyrod catching piedmonts and redeyes....
fourbizz reply :
"brink of endangerment" kind of a curious concept, when you think about it...
Not trying to discredit your argument though, I just thought that was funny.
I will eat spotted bass at every opportunity. They are choking lakes and stunting real bad in my area. VERY TASTY!!!
Rob G. reply :
Rockbass or Warmouth are excellent table fare as are all of the sunfish including LMB, SMB, and Spots. Do not get me wrong, I do not kill many bass, but once in a long while dinner is on.
Cephkiller reply :
Quotesome of the same folks that bash anyone that says anything about eating a largemouth, talk about how tasty redeyes and rocks bass are???????? ::
Come on down to my neck of the woods and you can take all you want. We have plenty and the ones that are left will make plenty more. Also, I only fish man-made lakes (mostly strip pits) so someone has to be stocking them.
P.S.
When questioning others' logic, don't bring a pen-knife to a gunfight
flyphisher # reply :
Brink of endangerment= I meant threatened, just couldnt think of the proper term when i was typeing.....
I am refering to public water, really unless you fish private stretches of rivers.....
Shoal Bass,piedmonts,suwanee bass and Redeye are only native to certain drainages and dont live in ponds. Warmouth and rock bass are totally different fish, as are spots. In some of the rivers here, the spots are coming out of the lakes and breeding and out-competeing the native fish that live in the rivers, same as is happening/has happened with the smallmouth in other lakes in the south and where the spots cant live, we have people introducing flathead and blue catfish that are even wiping out bream populations in some river systems.
Yet largemouth and alot of places smallmouth are stocked and managed by DNR/FWD and its not ok to eat them, yet its ok to eat native bass species, is the logic i am asking about??? pen knife to a knife fight???? WTH???
Cephkiller reply :
Quotepen knife to a knife fight???? WTH???
Thank you for making my point ever so much more eloquently than I could have ever hoped. Since you have self-administered the coup de grâce, I am finished.
flyphisher # reply :
Whatever...... Dont know what you are going for, but if it makes you happy. :
roadwarrior reply :
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C'mon guys...Let's lighten up or just move on to another topic. Jeez...
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guest reply :
Back to the subject.....Rock Bass are good eating, and fun to catch. They have saved the day for many a young fisherman. They do over-populate quickly, not sure why.
guest reply :
Flyphisher, rock bass are not really a bass per se. They are a panfish. These guys aren't talking about eating actual redeye bass here. Redeye is just another name for them, like goggle eye. Rock Bass spawn prolifically and are considered a nuisance in many lakes. Think of them as a cross between a smallmouth and a bluegill.
Rock bass are great eating. I just spent a week in Minnesota and ate dozens of them like I do every year. They're easy to catch too. They bite everything from 1/64th oz jigs to 1/2oz spinnerbaits. They do often have worms. You know those little black "balls" that are sometimes all over their fins and skin? Those are worms. They aren't dangerous and don't affect the flavor of the fish in any way. Tight lines
Bass Smacker reply :
They do often have worms. You know those little black "balls" that are sometimes all over their fins and skin? Those are worms. They aren't dangerous and don't affect the flavor of the fish in any way. Tight lines
snakesandarrows reply :
I caught a few while fishing in Minnesota last year; most of them on beetle spins. All of the ones I caught looked like they had parasitic worms attached to them. I wouldn't eat 'em; they looked nasty.
guest reply :
I won't speak for flyphisher, but I do think this c&r can get a little out of hand sometimes.
I once had an argument with a guy who was really outraged that I was keeping legal sized and #'s of stocked rainbow trout.
These are fish raised in a hatchery for the sole purpose of being caught and kept.
They are pumped into lakes and streams by the hundreds of thousands for recreational fisherman.
Yet, to him they were some kind of exalted creature (trout worshiper no doubt).
To me it was a laughably ridiculous argument, but to him it was really serious stuff.
It almost got violent, but fortunately didn't.
We have fisheries managers who are trained at lake and fish management. Yes, there is some politics invoved, but for the most part they are sincere in their efforts to maintain healthy fish populations for us to enjoy.
Obey the regulations, call the game warden when you see violations, and notify the F&W department if you notice changes in your lake that may hurt the fishery.
And remember fishing is supposed to be fun.
brad_snc reply :
Rock bass are very fun to catch with an ultra-lite rod as they fight like crazy and they are just as good eating, however they are everywhere in the WI northwoods. These past weeks I wasted many minnows going for crappie when a rock bass will come out of no where and get hooked. I've even caught them yesterday with a #4 Mepps Aglia, haha, it was almost bigger than the fish.
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