Bleeding out crappie

I watched a. Idea on utube by a fellow that calls himself or channel (walking on water) or wow. I don’t know how to upload a video, so he has a video on bleeding out crappie, he takes the crappie after he unhooks it and cuts one side of the crappie gills, and then put him in a plastic fish basket hanging beside the boat, and you can see the water around the crappie look red. Wondering if anyone out there has tried this, or if it would change the taste of it. Look him up on utube bleeding out crappie by wow.
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danny lang

Some folks wait so long to set the hook that they bleed out right in their hands , just saying :Rofl

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Originally Posted by Danny Lang

I watched a. Idea on utube by a fellow that calls himself or channel (walking on water) or wow. I don’t know how to upload a video, so he has a video on bleeding out crappie, he takes the crappie after he unhooks it and cuts one side of the crappie gills, and then put him in a plastic fish basket hanging beside the boat, and you can see the water around the crappie look red. Wondering if anyone out there has tried this, or if it would change the taste of it. Look him up on utube bleeding out crappie by wow.
thanks
danny lang

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Here you go...

WINTER CRAPPIE LIVESCOPE CATCHES HOW TO BLEED YOUR FISH - YouTube


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Originally Posted by slowhand

Here you go...

WINTER CRAPPIE LIVESCOPE CATCHES HOW TO BLEED YOUR FISH - YouTube




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thanks for uploading the video
danny lang

Thanks for sharing this just finished watching it. I will be giving this a try.


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My opinion is crappie taste so good naturally that you do not have to bleed them out.

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Originally Posted by RogerA

My opinion is crappie taste so good naturally that you do not have to bleed them out.

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I agree 100%. 80 years old and I have never heard of anyone bleeding out crappie.

Interesting. Thanks for the post.

I don’t think that’s necessary at all but to each their own

Helps on saltwater fish. Freshwater ones- not so much. Never have.

Heard of cats being bled out

Not necessary in my opinion but to each his own.


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Seems like alot of work for a panfish. I will stick with the simple filet and fry processing of crappie.

I’ve never tried it with crappie but did with white bass. It made no difference that I could tell. It might be a good way to keep the live wells from getting so nasty.

We bleed out the walleye we catch but wait until we're done fishing for the day, cut the gills and run the live well on the way back to the launch. Keeps the cutting board from getting as bloody during cleaning. Never tried it with crappie.

I have a friend who used to do it but I never have seen the need.

Ive never bled fish out but I soak my filet in salt water overnight rinse next day freeze covered in water. It may have the same results don't know.

Like most have said. No need in my opinion.

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When using an ice chest with ice and some water to it just throw the crappie in live and the cold water and the blood in the meat will flow to internal organs and thus white meat when filleting. Always done this in summer months when it’s hard to keep fish alive in boat livewell.


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Some people overthink it


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I used to do this sometimes with my salt water fish. Couldn’t taste the difference, just made cleaning them a little less nasty. Ice with water and salt to make a slurry is a great way to quickly and humanely dispatch a crappie. A few seconds in the slurry and they are done. Easier to clean because they get real firm. I can’t clean fish if they are flopping about. Makes me think they are feeling the knife.

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Ive never bled fish out but I soak my filet in salt water overnight rinse next day freeze covered in water. It may have the same results don't know.

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same here !
to me the salt firms them up and to me they taste much better!

As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.


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As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.

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That doesn't sound very appetizing! :Rofl

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As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.


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And, so do we.
Some have a head start on others.

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As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.

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It's why I clean them alive and kickin, always have and always will. Those slimy, stiff, pale, dead white crappie with the gross looking yellow white gills I will not eat!

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And, so do we.
Some have a head start on others.

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KEY WORD = HEAD :Rofl

we "bleed" albacore 200 miles off baja in the big blue water ,ever seen a monty python skit on the knights and the whacking off the arms and the dancing around spraying blood like a water hose ? Very similar situation on a tuna boat for sure , when the deck hands yell stay back and slit a throat it will for make you wonder how a 30 lb fish could have THAT much blood in it ......:Rofl
NEVER bled any other fish in my life though is my native american name :Rofl

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Originally Posted by Micanopy

I used to do this sometimes with my salt water fish. Couldn’t taste the difference, just made cleaning them a little less nasty. Ice with water and salt to make a slurry is a great way to quickly and humanely dispatch a crappie. A few seconds in the slurry and they are done. Easier to clean because they get real firm. I can’t clean fish if they are flopping about. Makes me think they are feeling the knife.

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whacking them wiggling is a big pain and really messy and often causes bad cuts as they go bananas to avoid death by surgery
if mine are that "hot" they get the see ya later whack behind the eyes to hold still enough to remove what needs to be removed .
love me an iced stiff as cord wood "fresh" iced down crappie on the cutting board for sure :cheers2
sides all that . best way I know to get finned is cutting on a live fish :banghead

Can't tell a taste difference but makes for a cleaner fillet table

Yea, I watched the video. Never seen the need for it though. A couple days in water in a fridge gets fillets as white as snow.

never done that, but I had a buddy who would terminate a carp and cut off it's tail and drag behind the boat, before he would eat them