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<blockquote data-quote="sh00ter" data-source="post: 3222322" data-attributes="member: 24531"><p>For larger fish (probably catfish), I read a whack to the head with a club or hammer right before filleting. What about for smaller fish like crappie?</p><p></p><p>Also, I have recently read that fish taste better if you bleed them before cleaning them. So let's say you were catching a mess of crappie and keeping them in your livewell. At what point and what chronological procedure would you use to kill/bleed them (or would you)?</p><p></p><p>I read some people use an ice chest but I would want to keep them in the livewell alive as long as possible before cleaning. I have read all sorts of procedures. I doubt I will take an ice chest on the boat just for keeping fish. So that begs the question that if you have a fish die in the livewell, how long can he be dead and still be okay to clean & eat in a non-winter season?</p><p></p><p>How do you guys do it all??? I grew up with a step dad who just took the catch and put them in a non-iced bucket and let them suffocate on the ride back from the lake and then cleaned them whether alive or not OR just cleaned them all straight from the livewell at the boat dock which I remember as a kid thinking was cruel. Then later in life, my other buddy would use a claw hammer or a sawzall on the catfish we caught before cleaning. Now that I'm back into fishing as an adult with a boat, I need my own system. Much of my fishing will just be bass catch/release but I do want to try crappie again as I know it is supposed to be the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sh00ter, post: 3222322, member: 24531"] For larger fish (probably catfish), I read a whack to the head with a club or hammer right before filleting. What about for smaller fish like crappie? Also, I have recently read that fish taste better if you bleed them before cleaning them. So let's say you were catching a mess of crappie and keeping them in your livewell. At what point and what chronological procedure would you use to kill/bleed them (or would you)? I read some people use an ice chest but I would want to keep them in the livewell alive as long as possible before cleaning. I have read all sorts of procedures. I doubt I will take an ice chest on the boat just for keeping fish. So that begs the question that if you have a fish die in the livewell, how long can he be dead and still be okay to clean & eat in a non-winter season? How do you guys do it all??? I grew up with a step dad who just took the catch and put them in a non-iced bucket and let them suffocate on the ride back from the lake and then cleaned them whether alive or not OR just cleaned them all straight from the livewell at the boat dock which I remember as a kid thinking was cruel. Then later in life, my other buddy would use a claw hammer or a sawzall on the catfish we caught before cleaning. Now that I'm back into fishing as an adult with a boat, I need my own system. Much of my fishing will just be bass catch/release but I do want to try crappie again as I know it is supposed to be the best. [/QUOTE]
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