Thread: Frozen Crappie good or bad?

Eating 1 1/2 year old vacuum packed crappie now.

Originally Posted by yikess

I had some the other day that I caught in 2009. They bag was in the very back of the freezer and I had to give them a try to see if they were still good and they were. When I freeze them in water there is no air in the bag to create freezer burn and I let them thaw out slowly. Worked like a charm.

Exactly! I add a pinch of table salt to each bag and after 4-5 yrs they taste the same as if they were froze for a month!

Blacken them.

I would chum those trout in my belly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean Yum, Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They don't get real good until they age a half a year! Half a year is nothing if in water or vacuum packed.

The reason I have a standup freezer ,easier to organize. I try to keep the older ones given away. But they are still fine like everyone said in my opinion.

We eat frozen trout fillets a year old that have been froze in water taste great!

Trout are an oily fish, crappie are not. Probably why some people say they don't keep long term in the freezer. I've heard similar things about salt water fish like croaker and bluefish, but then again, you buy frozen salmon all the time and they are just big trout. If you see a blood line or brown flesh down the middle cut it out as that is where most of the oils are anyway, and it actually cuts out easier after freezing (I know from white bass and croaker).