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Thread: Does Anybody "Bleed" Their Catch?

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    Question Does Anybody "Bleed" Their Catch?


    I have a friend that I guess has been Crappie Fish'n since Marmaduke was a puppy. Last year we were cleaning fish at the campground fish cleaning station & he started stabing all the fish right behind the gill plate to bleed them out. He said that it makes the meat white as cotton. He dressed a fish that he hadn't bled and laid the meat on the cleaning table then dressed one he had bled. The one that wasn't bled was pinkish but the other was , like he said, white as cotton. It is a little messy but if you haven't tried it, try it and compair the felets'.
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    Soak the filets in saltwater overnight and they come out looking white as cotton. To each, his own.

    Some saltwater pelagic fish require bleeding out while they're still alive due to market demand. I don't know of any freshwater fish that needs to be bled out, though.

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    Any time you bleed a fish of any kind it whitens the meat, Some fish need to be bleed to help on the flavor, however crappie is not one of them, at least not according to my taste buds.LOL .
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    I do walleye and saugeye but not panfish. Like Matt said soaking them should do the trick.
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    Where I come from, bleeding is reserved for large catfish only (>10 lbs).
    Jeremiah 16:16a "But now I will send for many fishermen," declares the Lord, "and they will catch them."

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    Some of the saltwater fish, i.e. tuna, have to be bled out because tuna can actually regulate their body temperature, and when you throw them on ice, they will try to warm themselves up, and it "burns" the meat up. Just random trivia.

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    I like to soak mine overnight in salt water but have fileted a bunch and threw them in the cooker without soaking, they tasted great. I guess it dosen't make much difference to me they taste great either way.

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