>>2539235Largemouths usually taste alright if you get them in the sweet spot where they're big enough to bother cleaning, but not so big that they're mushy sacks of mercury. Smallies and spotted bass are genuinely pretty tasty imo, my local reservoir is encouraging people to keep introduced spotties so they don't compete with the local smallies and I've taken to frying them up whenever I catch them while panfishing.
