Sand Bass Yet?

[Coach_1]

Been catching a few down here. We throw them back. Never ate one. Any good like crappie?

 

[makeithappen]

Been catching a few down here. We throw them back. Never ate one. Any good like crappie?

Sand bass is very good, you just have to remove the red meat from along the lateral line or it tastes like crap.

 

[CBarCRanch]

Sandbass biting good this evening 2 guys left with limits 3 kids had 30 and I caught 9 in about 1 hour most where small

Where at?

 

[CBarCRanch]

Sand bass is very good, you just have to remove the red meat from along the lateral line or it tastes like crap.

Crap eh?

 

[dennishoddy]

Bigger sand bass are really good cooked on the grill. They don't fall apart like crappie when done.

 

[Glocktogo]

Dang I'm whipped. Hit Chouteau bend at 09:45 with the wife and my buddy jumped in the the boat with us about 2pm. We stopped at 6:45pm to cull some more before heading home. CONSERVATIVE estimate is about 130 caught, but probably closer to 150. My buddy kept count and caught 32 himself between 2 and 6:45. We were tossing back a lot of decent sized males and easily another 30-40 were actually keepers. We just finished cleaning fish, prepping the boat for tomorrow and cleaning up.

I've got a pic of the 59 on the deck, but I'm too pooped to upload it and post. I'll do that tomorrow night.

 

[Glocktogo]

Well today was windy as heck and they weren't running water like they were Saturday. We caught 53 today and only kept 18, but four of them were nice slab crappie. My wife caught the last fish of the day and she was a WHALE! With a flawlessly set drag, she managed to catch a 60" paddlefish that we estimated at about 60 pounds (my scale only goes to 50# and it zeroed out with pounds left to go). took about a half hour to get her to the boat and calm enough to land. Allegedly they only spawn about every 2-3 years? Her belly was swollen with eggs and she looked relieved when we put her back.

Oh, did I mention she caught it with a crankbait on 12# test?

Again, too tired to upload pics tonight, but I'll get some up tomorrow!

 

[Coach_1]

Man that's awesome. Congrats to your wife on that big one.

 

[swampratt]

WOW!! Sounds like a great day fishing.. Congrats to the wife for catching the whale on sewing thread!!!

 

[okie362]

Y'all are just freakin mean spirited!:finger:

ANd yes. Congrats to the wife