I have always cleaned on the counter on a cutting board, one of those plastic ones. On ones the wife wants whole, they get scaled with a spoon, curve to the top. No scale flying that way. scales and innards go in plastic bag and into trash. Wash area down very well, and you would never know you cleaned fish their.
Proud to have served with and supported the Units I was in: 1st IDF, 9th INF, 558th USAAG (Greece), 7th Transportation Brigade, 6th MEDSOM (Korea), III Corp, 8th IDF, 3rd Armor Div.
1980 Ebbtide Dyna-Trak 160 Evinrude 65 Triumph