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Ranse ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Location: Tennessee Points: 773 |
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I’m talking humanely folks. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a vegetarian and I know how the food change works. I love to fish, I love eating fish. The problem is, I catch fish and put them in the live well and they are still alive for hours after I get home. I’m not going to clean a live fish. I can’t do it. They live a long time even if you drain the water. Will they die quicker in city water? I googled this question and they basically said “knock them in the head “. I’m not fond of killing, I just wish they hurry up and die already. What do y’all do?
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DougG ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Location: Mo Points: 7982 |
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Usually just chop off the head - thats barbaric, but fast
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plummerscarin ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 22 Jun 2015 Location: ia Points: 3207 |
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My dad used to to whack em on the head. It's quick if done right.
I remember some time ago had minnows left over from an outing so put them in an aquarium with city water. They were dead in a hour. Edited by plummerscarin - 27 Apr 2021 at 6:58pm |
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allisbred ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Location: Hanover Pa Points: 1011 |
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Cut of the head while alive is the best method. Think of it this way, eating dead fish have more chances for parasites, bacteria, and such. It will make keeping them alive and cutting off the head easier. Packing on ice will keep them from flopping so much when cleaning.
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Dave H ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Central IL Points: 3485 |
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If I am dealing with kinda large guys I have a 1/2 lb hammer that puts them to sleep. Otherwise on the small stuff the head comes off first.
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Joe(OH) ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Montezuma, Ohio Points: 966 |
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Put them on ice.
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Dakota Dave ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: ND Points: 3906 |
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We have to drain the live well before leaving the boat ramp failure to do it is a hefty fine. By the time you drive up to the cleaning station their dead. Otherwise Wack it with a fish wacker and cut the head off. We go straight from the boat ramp to cleaning station. The faster you clean them after death the better the fish is. If you can't clean imeadatly you need to ice them. In the winter Judy toss them out the icehouse door the freeze right away and you can clean at home. Only one cleaning station is open in the winter. When we were tuna risking in the Indian Ocean we had to use a full size baseball bat but fish we catch here a fish wacker is big enough.
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IBWD MIke ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3513 |
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How do you fillet a fish with no head?
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Kansas99 ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 26 Feb 2015 Location: W Kansas Points: 4810 |
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Dave if you ever went fishing with the guys I do, you wouldn’t have to go tuna fishing to need a baseball bat. Some of them have have caught bass that a bat isn’t big enough, in fact some flatheads they caught they probably needed a wrecking ball to kill. ![]() ![]() |
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john(MI) ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: SE MI Points: 9263 |
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I remember my Dad filleting fish and when he was finished they would still be breathing. I always wanted to take one down to the river and see it could swim. Yes, I also want to know how you filet a fish with the head chopped off. I guess the best answer to the original post is to do catch and release.
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Walker ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: oh Points: 8139 |
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Ocean fishing you use the cheapest boose you got rum, vodka, scotch whatever soak a rag in it and lay it over their gills. It doesn't take long and they die. Some times you don't have long cause some of them gots big toofies. Barracuda is prime example.
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JW in MO ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Feb 2010 Location: South KC Area Points: 2598 |
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Catfish are easy and quick. Dead center of their skull just above the eyes, there is a hole in the skull, I always took a small piece of wire and jam it into the brain and they die real quick.
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Dakota Dave ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: ND Points: 3906 |
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Barracuda we just gaffed and tossed in the hold. gave them to the guys that clean the fish they loved them. the tuna were about 80" long. even after gaffing to get onboard. we still wacked them other wise they just thrashed to much. we hired a boat and captain every Thursday and had fish fry every Friday. I was deployed for 90 days living in a tent. fishing was about the only good thing about the military forced camping trip.
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allisbred ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Location: Hanover Pa Points: 1011 |
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Walker ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: oh Points: 8139 |
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On a sailboat you don't have the luxury of a hold and the cockpit is kinda like being in a bathtub with em gaffing them is good but you can still count on a fight afterward.
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allisbred ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Location: Hanover Pa Points: 1011 |
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I hope not too much is thought about, never will see crabs, lobster, shrimp, oysters, clams, etc on the menu at the fancy restaurants!
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IBWD MIke ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3513 |
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What do you hold onto? When I fillet a fish, the head is the handle.
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allisbred ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Location: Hanover Pa Points: 1011 |
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You don’t have much until you start cutting. That’s why it is easier to put them on ice and then make your fillets after they stop flopping, they are still alive though and I guess that is not humane anymore. Remembering back to the first rock fishing trip I was on using a “live” well, that was basically allowing us to keep all fish until a larger one was caught. That was not how I was raised to fish. We made the decision before pulling to the boat, then packed on ice. These fish are about 18”-28” in length so cutting the head off, then cutting down the top fin gave you room to put your hand into if that was your choice. I have never seen the wacking method but sounds like it may work fine.
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Scott B ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Sep 2013 Location: Kansas City Points: 1003 |
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22 shot to the head works. Just don't do it in the boat....
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JW in MO ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Feb 2010 Location: South KC Area Points: 2598 |
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IBWD MIke ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3513 |
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In theory yes. In practice or in stores, maybe?
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allisbred ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Location: Hanover Pa Points: 1011 |
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Getting ready for a fishing trip here soon, going to bring a bat along and see if I’m allowed on the boat—lol! Guys might have me locked up for beating a fish to death— who knows! So being serious— where do I need to hit a Rock (striped bass) to be most effective? These guys don’t move much once out of water.
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