Thread: Sand Bass fishing

Originally Posted by giantsfan

That is the saying which is why I need to start hitting the rivers and creeks for the sandies as my crappie skills are lacking. I have fished Kaw twice for crappies this winter with zero luck. I see people catch the crappies and I cant so I just accepted I stink at crappie fishing haha.

this warm rain predicted to be 1" and temps in the mid 70's this weekend should really turn them on in the creeks.

I kinda hate fishing the creeks on kaw when its good. So many boats on every stob that you can walk across them without getting your feet wet. Not my style to anchor and put out a bobber. I'll do it if necessary, but usually its not.

Originally Posted by Jason Treat

In my opinion they are the closes as far as taste to a Crappie then any other fish. But I also like ketchup in my brown beans, so who I'm I to say!

I'd be interested to hear your method on this as this has certainly not been my experience. In my house, sandies are relegated to blackened fish tacos and other spiced up fare while the crappie are reserved for pan frying. If you can make a sand bass taste like a crappie....please tell me how!

Remove the red meat off of the fillet helps considerably.

I agree with cricket george; trim/cut out only the white meat from the fillet and do not take any of the darker strip (blood line). Seeing as how there is no limit on size or quantity it don't hurt to take a few more fish if needed since your keeping a smaller portion of the fillet. I have taken sandies and crappies cut them both to about same size pieces fried'em up served them in the same bowl and no one could tell the difference.

exactly. just remove the red meat and it's good stuff. Texture isn't exactly the same as crappie so I can tell because of that. We love it though.

Originally Posted by callmecamo

I'd be interested to hear your method on this as this has certainly not been my experience. In my house, sandies are relegated to blackened fish tacos and other spiced up fare while the crappie are reserved for pan frying. If you can make a sand bass taste like a crappie....please tell me how!

As stated above by others, I make sure to remove the red meat. Then I soak it in milk over night and use jiffy mix with some lawry seasoning salt and a little garlic salt and fry it up in a frying pan. Besides the texture the taste difference isn't noticeable. Sometimes I will even soak it in salt water before draining and soaking in milk.

Sand bass has a different consistency than crappie.
We love to grill sand bass, but crappie falls apart on the grill.

Heading out to Keystone this weekend, to check to check on the Sand Bass and to see if we can get on some Crappie. I will let yall know how we do.