I release my bass too...but only because they taste grassy. I wish I liked them but I don't . In Maryland I ate the white perch , yellow perch, white norhtern suckers, smallies , largemough , catfish , browns , rainbows, bluegills , bullheads, and the channels. We ate them all man. The white perch were the most plentiful and would catch them at night time . I only eat5 types of freshwater fish in Florida.
Nile Perch
Shellcrackers { Red earred sunfish}
Bluegills
Crappie
Sunshine Bass..{ Hybred white bass / striped bass}
Chuck7