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    I read on an aquarium website that the most humane way to dispatch one of their little buddies was to immerse in an ice bath. That is water ice mixture. Adding salt serves to make the mix all that much colder. This gives you a dead fish pretty quickly. It does not however guarantee a no flop cleaning operation. Crappie however are an odd fish in that they will flop about long after they should be permanently still. I imagine this is simply nerves twitching, but I like them to lie real still for me, too.

    If you want to wait to clean them later, drain away the water leaving just the ice.

    I have always just hosed the fish off to remove slime. Wanted them as clean as possible. Of course I kill my chickens before I pluck them, so there is that.
    Maybe they will bite this one……

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    i really don't enjoy hurting anything in the flora and fauna realm for the most part .
    I do at times like it when a pest takes a hit ,but none the less it isn't my thing to inflict pain and suffering even when it might be the best avenue .
    All that said give me a firm stiff crappie on ice that don't bleed or flop and the knife will fly .
    I do not enjoy seeing a moving fish get cleaned and if I have to clean a "green" fish I always dispatch it with a blow or 2 to the head first !
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    Quote Originally Posted by catchNgrease View Post
    Problem solvedAttachment 400532

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    That would make a nice disciplinary tool as well, CNG.

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    ikejime

    humane; easy

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    you have to cut them to eat them
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    It never bothered me to clean live fish but 42 years ago my new bride watched me clean some fish that were still alive and flopping and swore she would never eat a fish I caught and she still hasn't over 42 years later. Now, I ice them for a few hours and clean them after a nap.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS View Post
    It never bothered me to clean live fish but 42 years ago my new bride watched me clean some fish that were still alive and flopping and swore she would never eat a fish I caught and she still hasn't over 42 years later. Now, I ice them for a few hours and clean them after a nap.
    I’m good with the nap part too.
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    Bother's me usually cleaning live fish. Normally they are dead when I do them. Crappie I leave in a cooler of ice all night and do the next morning. Cats I take out back and shoot them in the head with a 22 handgun.
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    Maybe it's is just me , but i use a cooler and a slurry of ice and salt for any of the fish i'am going to keep. I cut there gills and submerge them in the slurry. Nice white fillets with no blood. I us my live wells for storage.
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