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Good job nice video
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Thanks. It is fun making these videos. I see so much drift wood out there, I though of taking some, drying it, and turning some jugs on my lathe.
Very good show, keep them coming.
Yeah, man. Now I gotta clean these suckers.
Your lucky you live in a state that permits the use of jugs.My state is for some reason a no go on jugs,very restrictive on limb lines,and so so on trotlines,I may have to relocate to a more favorable state!
Yeah, I think it's because the jug fishermen here are very responsible. We stay in sight of our jugs all the time. We don't harvest more than we can eat.
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awsome video i love it....did u say salted bluegill? id like more info on that if u dont mind.
Yes, sir, I did say salted bluegill. I love bluegill fishing, but there isn't enough meat on them to clean for eating. I fillet the bluegill, then chop off the head. The rest of the body and guts get thrown away. Leave the skin on the bluegill. Depending on the size of the bluegill the fillets I can cut them into four piece. e.g., four pieces on a large blugeill, two pieces on a small bluegill.
Use pickling salt or kosher salt. No iodine. After a trip, stop buy the Wally World and pick a box or two. I use Morton's brand salts. Get some kind of storage containers if you don't have one. Add 1/4 to 1/2 inch of salt to the bottom of the container. Then add a layer of fillets. I usually leave the fillets whole until I use them. Then add another layer of salt. alternate between salt and meat until the container if full. Over night the salt will pull the water out of the meat. Pour off the water. If you can leave the top off so it will dry out, but there's no problem if you let is stay on the boat in a sealed container.
I don't like fishing with the heads, but it's too much bait to throw away. Pack the meth same way, but you'll notice a lot more fluid because the eyeballs are nothing but water. Just drain them the same way. I usually keep the heads in a separate container.
You can also cut the fillets long and narrow for trolling below the dam. You can also do this with drum, carp, shad, skipjack or kind of fish you'd want to do with bait.
The salt preserves the bait. Saltwater guys do this all the time with bait.
Yes, sir, I did say salted bluegill. I love bluegill fishing, but there isn't enough meat on them to clean for eating. I fillet the bluegill, then chop off the head. The rest of the body and guts get thrown away. Leave the skin on the bluegill. Depending on the size of the bluegill, one fillets can net four pieces of bait. e.g., four pieces on a large bluegill, two pieces on a small bluegill. So two fillets per bluegill divided into four equal pieces plus the head equals nine pieces of bait off one 6 inch bluegill.
Use pickling salt or kosher salt. No iodine. After a trip, stop buy the Wally World and pick a box or two. I use Morton's brand salts. Get some kind of storage containers if you don't have one. Add 1/4 to 1/2 inch of salt to the bottom of the container. Then add a layer of fillets. I usually leave the fillets whole until I use them. Then add another layer of salt. alternate between salt and meat until the container if full. Over night the salt will pull the water out of the meat. Pour off the water. If you can leave the top off so it will dry out, but there's no problem if you let is stay on the boat in a sealed container.
I don't like fishing with the heads, but it's too much bait to throw away. Pack the meth same way, but you'll notice a lot more fluid because the eyeballs are nothing but water. Just drain them the same way. I usually keep the heads in a separate container.
You can also cut the fillets long and narrow for trolling below the dam. You can also do this with drum, carp, shad, skipjack or kind of fish you'd want to do with bait.
The salt preserves the bait. Saltwater guys do this all the time with bait.
I'm going to give that a try thanks
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thank you for theinfo,ill give it a try
Yeah, give it a shot. Let us know how it works for you. I may shoot a quick video on this.
Thanks for the tip,but why on earth would you not eat bluegill ? For years I ate them whole,but after learning to fillet them,I can keep smaller gills and still get a nice fillet that soon adds up to some mighty fine eating.Maybe I missed it,but do you need to refridgerste your salted bait,or does the drying out keep the preserved well enough?
I do eat bluegill. I have a freezer full of them, but the time it takes me to clean one bluegill compared to one catfish, I get more meat per effort of work with catfish.
No, I don't refrigerate them. I leave it on the boat. Yes, I pour off the water after a day or so:
This is how meat was preserved before refrigeration.Quote:
Over night the salt will pull the water out of the meat. Pour off the water. If you can leave the top off so it will dry out, but there's no problem if you let is stay on the boat in a sealed container...[regarding heads] Pack them the same way, but you'll notice a lot more fluid because the eyeballs are nothing but water. Just drain them the same way.
Great video - thanks for sharing.
I gottcha,yeah gills take some time and effort that's for sure.
Thank you for posting. Will give salted bream a try. Noodles/jugs are my favorite way to catfish. Georgia allows all the jugs/noodles that you want to put out.