Every LM I have eaten tasted like mud... There are MUCH better eating fish IMO... Others have a different opinion, but people eat all kinds of things I would not!
What province do you live in that has no large mouth bass?I eat them, they taste fine - definitely eat the smaller ones. I actually like them better than small mouth for eating, but both are fine. There are better eating fish out there...I personally think you can't beat jumbo perch.
so i guess the problem is less the fish itself and more the water you got it out of.
Might be more like personal taste, we here are spoiled with a lot of great tasting salt water fish...