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Originally Posted by rp001
As a lifelong Fl resident and avid bass fisherman I'd suggest not harvesting any bass or probably any freshwater fish for consumption due to lead content. Catch your fish, take a picture of it and measure it, then release it. A large percentage will die anyways due to trauma experienced during the fight. You can get a mount from that if necessary and not deplete the fishery. I've got two wall hangars, one a skin mount and the other a replica mount. Both caught in very public locations in the greater Miami area. The skin mount process is very lengthy and a dying art.
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Using my web browser I couldn't find anything about significant lead content in bass; did you mean mercury?
Even then, I didn't find anything to preclude occasional eating of bass other than, perhaps, those caught in the Everglades. Since your reference fishing in Miami, perhaps your information is more localized to South Florida.
Do you have a particular resource we might read?
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On a related subject, how's the fishing in Lake Panasoffkee?