Silver bass

  • crawdaddy
    St. Paul MN
    Posts: 1560
    #1525475

    I go to the river thirteen fourteen times a month and often run into silver bass. Are they any good to eat? I think people down south and out east eat striped bass all the time and they are closely related. Maybe cousins.

    Erikwags99
    Posts: 4
    #1525485

    They are good to eat but you have to get all the red meat off the back of the fillet. They taste better out of the St Crois than the missippi, or at least until you get past Hastings. Also are good smoked!

    francisco4
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 3607
    #1525507

    Don’t let them get warm too. Get them on ice ASAP and they are not bad.

    FDR

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    #1525573

    Don’t let them get warm too. Get them on ice ASAP and they are not bad.

    FDR

    Along with this thought I’d say bleed them and keep them in a cooler of loose ice, especially when the weather warms up some.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    #1525612

    They are good to eat but you have to get all the red meat off the back of the fillet. Also are good smoked!

    …Yes they are great table fair, but like said above you have to get all the RED Meat Off. I really like the back straps from the Silvers the best. I have fried up walleyes and silver back straps at the same time. I never said a word to anyone about the silvers, and I never heard a word about it. When the evening was over and all the fish was gone, both the hot and cold fish. That’s when I told everyone that almost half of the fish were silvers. 90% of the people there were river people who eat a lot of fish, but not a word was said. So clean them right and like ALL fish don’t let them get warm, you will have some good eating fish… …rrr

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