Dispatching Crappie Humanely.

[Central Minn]

Dumped in a cooler with a couple bags of ice poured on top for the ride home,dead and cold for cleaning,ice cold crappie/sunfish clean nicer then warm ones.IMO

[cevans]

Anybody fishing on the lake I am on that wants me to kill their fish fir them, not a problem here. Better yet, I will just take them off their hands and they won’t have to witness anything.

[SKs Crappie Catching Adventures]

They bleed out better dying by filet knife.....either way dead is dead....LOL
Being a country fella I see them living within me....I often thank them for their lives allowing me to live....

I guess we posted at the same time since I didn't see your post.... Getting that blood out improves the taste tremendously..... I'll have to check your way out for sure.....

[Just Steve]

X2!


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X3!

[deltarat]

I saw a guy at Grenada last year putting his on the tailgate and banging them in the head with a pipe.

[GREENFISH]

Ice em! I think they clean better that way IMO


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[catchNgrease]

A lot of times when I clean mine I have to catch-em a 2nd time. When my youngest daughter(11) goes all fish are promptly released. And she loves to eat crappie.

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[SKs Crappie Catching Adventures]

I saw a guy at Grenada last year putting his on the tailgate and banging them in the head with a pipe.

[rnvinc]

And to think I use to ring chickens neck and let them run around without a head and bleed out.

I still swear that my mamaw's freshly decapitated "headless" chicken could see me (as it chased me all over her yard after being axed) ...

Rickie

[Lonnie84]

It's about an hour drive home for me so a bag or two of ice on top and there is hardly any blood when the cleaning starts; however I plan to start cleaning my fish at the lake this year I think the swiftness of my electric fillet knife can get the meat off before anything starts to affect the taste of the meat but just to be sure I will put it to the test and do a few each way. As for the fish flopping around that's no longer an issue after I make my first cut behind the gill plate they usually mellow out pretty quick. I think the ikejime method could make a difference on bigger fish like big cats or the large ocean fish.