Best way to package fillets for the freezer?

im really liking the freeze em on a cookie sheet, then vacuum seal them. This has been working great for me. It really seals them up good.

I myself really only keep enough for 1 meal at a time...but my uncle likes to catch a lot and freeze them for large fish fries. He will take a gallon ice cream container, put some fillets in it then put water in it until it just covers the fillets. So then when you have more fillets, you can just put them right on top of the other layer, add mor water, and freeze. Then most of the time when it starts to thaw out, you can just cook a layer at a time.

I've been doing the freezing them in a freezer bagin water. Yes, the key is making sure no air is inside. Been doing this with duck also and has worked for 40 yrs. The times I've thawed some and mixed with the fresh, no difference in the taste.

I put them in a ziplock freezer bag force the air out in a sink of water like the others. Then I vacuum seal them I found a bag from last year the other day still tasted fresh. Little more time but has work for me for years

ziplock bags and water, havent had any complaints yet and my fishfrys just keep getting bigger, sounds like an aweful lot of work drying and sealing i guess im just a lazy fisherman:donooh i guess we all areRoflmao

i will 4th that.

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Originally Posted by 78mudbug

i just put them in a ziploc brand freezer bag and fill with water over the fillets and freeze.worked fine so far

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