I prefer to catch’em, clean’em and cook’em. They taste better to me before they’re froze. They’re still good.. but a noticeable difference to me. I had a coonass Friend tell me to freeze them whole and set them out to thaw and clean them as I wanted a meal and they would taste just like they were caught that day, but I’ve never tried it. I stock my freezer in Jan.&Feb just because i like when the water is cold and I dont have to ice. I can just keep them in the live well and dump the ice at home from the fridge on them for a couple hours then clean them.
Most of the fish I catch in the summer I give away and if I don’t have anyone wanting them we throw them back.
My goal is to put enough in my freezer to run out in December each year. I don’t like nothing in the freezer over a year
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