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Reply With QuoteLuckily no one is telling you how to dispatch a fish that you caught and are going to eat.
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So how do you kill them? Lethal Injection?Originally Posted by Happyfisherman
Letting them suffocate on ice or bashing them in the head sounds so much more appealing???
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Luckily no one is telling you how to dispatch a fish that you caught and are going to eat.
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Last fish I caught I tried to drown but it didn’t work, now I have a pet.
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Yeah
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Agreed. I bonk on the brain and bleed my fish before they go on ice. Fillets are close to snow white for me typically.
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Someone posted on here how they'll let crappie fillets age in the fridge, like up to a week. Said they were better that way. I'm kind of scared to try that, lol
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Do you notice a difference in taste/texture between the 2?
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I bleed all mine now, after I done a taste test on some, if you haven’t tried to bleed them I would suggest you try, it really makes a difference.
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I’m interested in catching and cooking for the first time in my life. There’s a couple of things I have on my mind about this. Number 1, I don’t want to eat blood. Number 2, I don’t want it tasting “fishy”. I’ve had fishy fish before and it’s not enjoyable. So how do you bleed a fish if you’ve already head bonked it dead? Also doesn’t soaking them in salt water get all the blood out?
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I bleed all my fish- crappie, striper and bream. I use a small pair of needle nose pliers and pull out the gills on each side and drop the fish in a 5 gal bucket of water for 5 minutes or so then into the ice cooler. I never rinse my filets until I’m ready to fry then they got into an ice slush which firms em up then breading and into hot oil immediately.
