Funny you mention eating more bass.
The first one I ate was horrible(deep hooked 4lber), tasted like mud and had very soft flesh.
About a week ago we kept a few limits of bass at about the 2lb range, some a lil smaller. Fried some up and it was really good! Hardly a difference. Tried some in a boil and that was good too!
I keep a few limits per year of walleye, but I eat mostly pike and crappie.
Crappie numbers up here are unreal, well same with walleye pike and bass.
But if I wanna good fry, crappie is better then walleye IMO anyhow.
But I think Ill be keeping a few more bass in the future.