Bleeding out crappie

[Micanopy]

I used to do this sometimes with my salt water fish. Couldn’t taste the difference, just made cleaning them a little less nasty. Ice with water and salt to make a slurry is a great way to quickly and humanely dispatch a crappie. A few seconds in the slurry and they are done. Easier to clean because they get real firm. I can’t clean fish if they are flopping about. Makes me think they are feeling the knife.

[Slabprowler]

Ive never bled fish out but I soak my filet in salt water overnight rinse next day freeze covered in water. It may have the same results don't know.

same here !
to me the salt firms them up and to me they taste much better!

[Cane Pole]

As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.


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[ezgoing]

As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.

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That doesn't sound very appetizing!

[slowhand]

As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.


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And, so do we.
Some have a head start on others.

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[keeferfish]

As soon as a fish dies, it begins to rot.

It's why I clean them alive and kickin, always have and always will. Those slimy, stiff, pale, dead white crappie with the gross looking yellow white gills I will not eat!

[wannabe fisherman]

And, so do we.
Some have a head start on others.

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KEY WORD = HEAD

[Ketchn]

we "bleed" albacore 200 miles off baja in the big blue water ,ever seen a monty python skit on the knights and the whacking off the arms and the dancing around spraying blood like a water hose ? Very similar situation on a tuna boat for sure , when the deck hands yell stay back and slit a throat it will for make you wonder how a 30 lb fish could have THAT much blood in it ......
NEVER bled any other fish in my life though is my native american name

[Ketchn]

I used to do this sometimes with my salt water fish. Couldn’t taste the difference, just made cleaning them a little less nasty. Ice with water and salt to make a slurry is a great way to quickly and humanely dispatch a crappie. A few seconds in the slurry and they are done. Easier to clean because they get real firm. I can’t clean fish if they are flopping about. Makes me think they are feeling the knife.

whacking them wiggling is a big pain and really messy and often causes bad cuts as they go bananas to avoid death by surgery
if mine are that "hot" they get the see ya later whack behind the eyes to hold still enough to remove what needs to be removed .
love me an iced stiff as cord wood "fresh" iced down crappie on the cutting board for sure
sides all that . best way I know to get finned is cutting on a live fish

[Pirogue]

Can't tell a taste difference but makes for a cleaner fillet table