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Anyones whose ate a crappie is just going to be disappointed when they taste a rock bass.
You said that right
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I would rate the taste of rock bass pretty high, not better than crappie or walleye. I think it has a sweet tasting with a slight courseness to the meat , like a bass. I like to soak mine in salt water for about 1hr or so and rinse in cold water.
get in, sit down, shut up and fish
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In upstate NY we also called em Red Eyes. One of my exes was phillipino and she favored Rock Bass over all other fish ( but she dumped me so her taste was obviously not that good)
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We catch what we call as rock bass in really high quality, clear, hill creeks and sometimes rivers. They are shaped similar to a bream or a tripletail for you saltwater guys, but they have red eyes. People in the hills here call them goggle eyes. They are in places where you will rarely if ever catch a crappie. They are absolutely delicious, and despite my fear of being villified on this forum, are as good as crappie or at least close enough that I can't tell any substantial diffence. For some reason our Game and Fish Commission has renamed them Ozark shadow bass, but I'm not sure they aren't trying to hype this as a doubtful subspecies of rock bass.
In the bottoms in the oxbow lakes we have warmouth bass that people in the flat lands call goggle eyes. They have a similar, but yet noticably different shape and have red eyes as well. You will catch crappie where they are. They are as good as any bream you are going to eat, and I like bream as much as crappie.
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