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    Quote Originally Posted by Techno2000 View Post
    Clean it, if has no smell it should be OK to eat.
    I already put it away. I hadn't seen this post until now. Actually it smelled OK. A little fishy but not like decaying. It was really stiff when I saw it this morning. I know a lot of people put them on ice first. I haven't done that so maybe they're always stiff after they've been dead for awhile? I always clean them after I take them out of the water.

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    I’ve never been so sick as I was years ago after cleaning a bunch of crappie that had been on ice a couple of days. A couple had light colored gills and felt mushy. I cleaned them anyway and was soon hoping to die while I hugged the commode, puking my guts out.


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    There's plenty of fish in the sea, lake, river, pond, etc. Why take a chance? Toss it/bury it.
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    As was said, it doesn’t seem like it would be worth the risk.

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    50 degrees , fillet it ,if you are really hungry and it had pink gills , heck as tough as they are, even dead it probably still had blood flow ….
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