Soaking fish.

**Missouri Bushwhacker** · 08-23-2018, 09:30 AM

IMO crappie is so clean it is almost tasteless without the breading. Not sure what soaking will do to it besides make it mushy. Fresh and drier the better for me. Its always more flaky. Now we eat alot of river cats and we cut out all the red meat and then chunk it. THrow that in a clean cattle trough with a screen on top. We pump cold well water in from the bottom and the oil and funk flows off the top. Snow white clean blue cat nuggets is the bomb. Just enough taste to know you are eating fish without the mud and oil funk. Blackened Flat head bellies on the grill are the delicacy. Porterhouse of the MIssouri RIver!

**Pirogue** · 08-23-2018, 05:40 PM

Crappie just soak in plain water overnight before frying or freezing. For catfish fillets check out The Wild Game Washer on YouTube. I made my own and its great for flushing the "oil" out of cats.

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**blueducklane** · 08-23-2018, 06:27 PM

Lotta times my beer tastes like fish cause theyre in the same cooler.
My buddies give me heck but i say it smells like victory.

**Snagged again** · 08-23-2018, 07:03 PM

Growing up we would always soak fish overnight with just a little bit of salt....Several years ago a friend asked me to try skipping the salt altogether....I did and the fillets still had blood removed and were firmer without any salt sliminess at all ....Been soaking in water only every since trying it....Like it quite a bit more....To each their own

I do still soak wild game with a little salt though.

**Eagle 1** · 08-24-2018, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Grumpy

NEVER. Just wash them off real good in cold water and dip in cornmeal with salt and black pepper added and then drop into the deep fryer.

+1, Like my fish to taste like fish .

**1187mg** · 08-26-2018, 08:08 PM

Soak in just water. Used to soak them in salt water but that starts cooking them and crappie doesn't need that.

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**Dutch552** · 08-29-2018, 10:39 AM

Crappie are pretty delicate fish so they're usually good to go once they've been thoroughly rinsed to remove scales and residual slime. I soak white bass, hybrids and stripers ovenright in saltwater to pull out some of the blood that you can't cut away.

**mac** · 08-29-2018, 03:19 PM

I soak or brine pond bass, chicken breast's, mushrooms, and some wild game. In my opinion it makes the product more juicy. Just my 2 cents worth. It's your game prepare it any way you like.

**Crappiegirl1** · 09-09-2018, 11:18 PM

Have always soaked overnight in water in frig. Extra blood comes out once in awhile.

**Big Andy** · 09-10-2018, 03:15 PM

With crappie catchem and eat them that night. Just run a little cold water over them and put the fillets in bowl of ice water to firm up and then your good to go best taste you can get out of crappie.

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