DonDon, you da man with the hot sauce. I'll freeze crappie in bags with shot sauce and lemmon water after they sit for several hours. Folks think the hot sauce will be too hot for a weak gut, but it really just adds a little flavor to it. Nice for a change of pace.

My granddad would soak his fish in milk. Said it got the 'fishy' taste out of it, but he got most of his crappie from river bar pits and oxbows. They might have had that 'river' taste to them. He would put his river cats in a feeder tank of water and let a little trickel run in it for a couple days. Said it cleaned the river taste out of them. I don't ever remember crappie having a strong fishy taste, so I don't soak in anything except hot oil.