My best bass from last week

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I've eaten smallmouth before and though I'm not much of a fish eater I can tell you it was very good. I would recommend eating fish caught in the early spring or late fall. I think around this area, the summer fish get fatty and wormy. I found the flesh to be much better in the early spring and late fall. Also, I feel that smallmouth are like lobster, don't bother eating the big ones. Let those ones live on to keep those genes reproducing in the lake. By all means, take the little ones. There is an abundant supply and their better eating. It's also typically much easier to catch 10 scrappy little 1 pound smallmout than it is to catch three 3 pounders...

My 2 cents.