BLEEDING A FISH

[featherduster]

This spring our Lake Erie group started bleeding our fish and boy does it make a world of difference in the taste of the fish.
When you catch a fish you can do it several different ways one being to clip a fish on a clip stinger then cut the throat right below the gills and let it bleed out in the water or what we did was cut the throats of our Walleye and them drop them head first in a 7 gallon bucket filled 1/4 of the way with water and let them bleed out for about 10 min.

The meat will be white and it will taste unforgettably good.

[nfalls116]

What we do is hang them from a hook and cut their tails off and they bleed out very well and can tell a big difference!

[steiny]

Been catching, cleaning and eating fish all my life and other than on something like the TV Tuna shows, have never seen anyone bleed a fish?

Something I am pretty religious about is having a cooler of ice on the boat to place any keepers in as soon as caught. Sooner you can get them chilled, the better they will be, plus they fillet much nicer if chilled. Dead and dying fish on a stringer, in a basket or in a live well are gradually deteriorating.

[featherduster]

After we bleed them we do put them in a cooler on ice.

[freedomhunter]

I bleed out flathead cats, nail the head to a post and cut the tail off.

[nfalls116]

We keep them in ice water in the well and then we hang em bleed em skin em and ice water again