I see a lot of crappie that are showing their pink side lately due to the summer heat. I've always kept mine on ice to avoid the pinky, never wanted to take a chance and end up with spoiled fish.
Attachment 382516 Attachment 382517
Printable View
I see a lot of crappie that are showing their pink side lately due to the summer heat. I've always kept mine on ice to avoid the pinky, never wanted to take a chance and end up with spoiled fish.
Attachment 382516 Attachment 382517
We keep our crappies in a bag or the livewell. I want them alive to the knife and the fillets immediately cooled. Fish so dead they are decaying I simply discard, I do not risk eating spoiled fish.
fish spoil fast, I keep mine alive until ready to clean. Some fish I see posted sometimes I wouldn't eat.
pink and red is a sign of stress in fish most of the time , hence the deadly effects of a pink headed jig in the winter when the shad are on their last leg .
discolored eyes /cloudy and washed out coloration coupled with a less than firm feel makes me say ....no thanks
not just pink .
my 27 cents
I think crappie taste better out of cold water, so I don't keep them at all once the surface temp hits high 70s and above; for here that is about June thru September. I keep enough in the winter and spring to last me the summer.
Don’t think I’d eat that spoiled fish. From mid May to mid October I put mine on the ice.
I was one that always thought fish tasted better out of cold water until I started going over to Mississippi last summer and pulling cranks and they are the best crappie I have ever eaten and everybody I feed say the same thing. The water temp. when I go has always been in the upper 80's or low 90's and when we catch them we always put them on ice in the cooler and they usually have pink around their mouth but I have never had a bad fish from over there.
If there's ANY question about the safety of food throw it out. If you've never had food poisoning, count your lucky stars. It can really put you in a world of hurt.
I feel if they are packed in ice real good they will keep just fine for me.
I catch 99% black crappie and never see the pink show up especially around the mouth area like on white crappie. I think it's something inherit to the whites. I find wintertime crappie taste much better but summertime caught fish need to be put on ice immediately. I'm not talking about throwing them on top of a bag of ice in a cooler, but rather open that bag add some water to it to make a slurry and then bury the fish in it. Safety first.
"gene"
Down here in Texas in summer it's time for using the ice chest, it's way too hot to think about the live well and the troubles that has! Heck even we use a little ice in the minnows water to help cool the water and keep them living.
Skip
I always put my fish on ice, regardless if it's 30 deg. or 90 deg. outside, I always have ice in the cooler when fishing. I don't use the livewell unless I'm culling fish in the colder months.
pink salmon are considered bait in Alaska btw :Rofl
I will not eat a pink fish, Use Ice as if it is free. A cooler half full is a good place to start . One bag in the July/ August temps here in Just is not enough .
to put fish at this time of year anywhere but straight to the ice is just not the ticket as far as I am concerned
livewells and buckets and stringers are for much cooler water
You got that right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
My dad was a butcher, owned a meat market, and I grew up with a knife in my hand, so I'm pretty anal about caring for and processing my fish and game.
I've seen people drag stringers full of dead fish around a lake all day, during the hottest days of summer, then take them home to eat.
I've also seen people treat their harvested deer about just as bag. SMH!
Makes my skin crawl!
I saw a toad of a crappie today on a page somewhere , looked to be at least 3 plus lbs .
beer can stuck in its mouth
and pale as a sheet and all pink and looking RIPE
HOW totally disrespectful of such a fine specimen is that i ask you ?
man that burns me up :yikes
That's just sad. Can only hope that what goes around comes around for People who do that kind of crap.