Thread: whats eating sized?

Old Codger...I believe the chinks he's referring to is a shellcracker.

Originally Posted by Crappie Buster

For all of you who enjoy scaling your fish and frying them whole with bones and fins... I saw a post some where on here a while back about a wire cage that you put your fish in as you catch them. You drag it behind your boat and it scales your fish for you. I never actually seen one in person, but I would imagine that'd be a pretty nice item to have and save a lot of cleaning time.

Anybody ever used one of these?

well, i have used one of these baskets, although mine was not called a rocket basket, and they work okay, but the problem is after yoiu drag this thing behind the boat long enough to knock the scales off the bream, they just tear up the bream. it would almost be like dragging a stringer of bream behind the car down the road. they just take chunks out of the fish. other than that, they work, i guess?????

doc

10-4 Old Codger thats what they are, we call them chiquapins in Louisiana, it derives from an Indian name I think. Some people call them (chinks) like some people call bluegill (gills). We usually lump them all together and call the bream.

Doc everything I have heard about the rock it basket was good.What kind did you use?

Originally Posted by Slipped Cork

Go to 2nd page and it's under How do you all go about go to 3rd page and there is a picture of one.Rocket fish basket.

I wont go without mine. Matter of fact I just bought another one since I lost my old one in vry rough waters. You gotta use it a couple times to get used to it. If you over-pull the fish you might not have anything left in the basket.I usually pull my basket (1/4 to 1/3 full) running @ 20 mph for 300-400 yards. Biggest drawback is you pull them until the tails are gone to make sure they are clean, and I've always loved biting that little crispy off the end of the fried fish. Here's another pic of a Rock-it Fish Scaler.

the one in the pics is similar to the one we used to have. maybe we dragged them tooooooooooo long. b/c when we opened it up, there was bug hunks of the fish missing and all chewed up. i might have to get one of these and try it. i definitely dragged mine longer than300 yards, but i don't think i dragged it that fast.

thanks for the post and pic.

doc

Jackpot.

Those are some nice chinks, we caught some nice ones today also.