how to remove red meat from striper fillet

[agelesssone]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Oh dude you leave them in the trash? I always put a paper bag with the carcasses in the freezer until trash day then toss them.

X2 on Jimmy.

Buy/find/get an old ironing board, screw a piece of 1x6 to the top.

Have a doubled up plastic grocery bag/s handy for the offals and carcasses.

Clean your fish outside on it, hose the ironing board off, fold it up, and stash it away til the next time.

Tie the bags closed, place in the freezer til trash day, dispose. No mess, no smell.

[TNBronzeback]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Oh dude you leave them in the trash? I always put a paper bag with the carcasses in the freezer until trash day then toss them.

That would be the best option, but due to my mad fishing skills, my freezer is full of filets, no room for guts! HA HA!

[SAMBOLIE]

Originally Posted by TNBronzeback

That would be the best option, but due to my mad fishing skills, my freezer is full of filets, no room for guts! HA HA!

Fish never get to Jimmy's freezer. He cleans and eats.

[TNBronzeback]

im developing a small stock pile in the freezer. the future inlaws love Crappie so when a fry happens, i need a decent pile of filets to keep in good graces! HA!
Son-In-Laws know no wrath like the hunger of Mom-in Law and Dad-in-Law after you promise a load of fish and run out! LOL.

[Heiny57]

I wish there were cleaning stations on JPP.

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by TNBronzeback

im developing a small stock pile in the freezer. the future inlaws love Crappie so when a fry happens, i need a decent pile of filets to keep in good graces! HA!
Son-In-Laws know no wrath like the hunger of Mom-in Law and Dad-in-Law after you promise a load of fish and run out! LOL.

Of course that stockpile is to be no larger than 2x the daily limit or you're violating one of the most ridiculous, and devoid of logic, rules the TWRA has ever come up with

Situation A - I catch my limit of Crappie on Day 1, on Day 2 me and my family eat all of them. This continues for 3 total days of catching and eating the next day.

Situation B - I catch my limit of Crappie 3 consecutive days, store them in the freezer to be eaten at a later time.

Both situations equal me catching a total of 3 limits of Crappie in one week, situation A is legal, situation B is illegal. Explain that one.

I hope to get some piles of Crappie fillets in my freezer come this Spring. I'm really going to dedicate some time to getting after them this year.

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by Heiny57

I wish there were cleaning stations on JPP.

No kidding, there really needs to be. There's a nice one in the campground below Center Hill Dam.

[XxthejuicexX]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Of course that stockpile is to be no larger than 2x the daily limit or you're violating one of the most ridiculous, and devoid of logic, rules the TWRA has ever come up with

Situation A - I catch my limit of Crappie on Day 1, on Day 2 me and my family eat all of them. This continues for 3 total days of catching and eating the next day.

Situation B - I catch my limit of Crappie 3 consecutive days, store them in the freezer to be eaten at a later time.

Both situations equal me catching a total of 3 limits of Crappie in one week, situation A is legal, situation B is illegal. Explain that one.

I hope to get some piles of Crappie fillets in my freezer come this Spring. I'm really going to dedicate some time to getting after them this year.

My grandfather was telling me about this law. His friend he fishes with told him that he could get in big trouble because he has a freezer full of crappie from this year. I think that's absolutely stupid.

[TNBronzeback]

Yeah that is a pretty lame rule. i suppose its illegal to have venison in the freezer from last year if you tagged out this year too right since you technically are "over the harvest limit"

we had a problem in michigan fishing the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers. since both rivers are half canadian and half US, limits were skewed....US you were allowed 5 walleyes, canada you were allowed 6, so technically, in your possession if you had both Canadian and US fishing license, you could have 11 walleyes. the Game Wardens didnt like it cause you couldnt prove where you caught the fish IF a law was being broken. it was a hassle for sure.

[MNfisher]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Of course that stockpile is to be no larger than 2x the daily limit or you're violating one of the most ridiculous, and devoid of logic, rules the TWRA has ever come up with

Situation A - I catch my limit of Crappie on Day 1, on Day 2 me and my family eat all of them. This continues for 3 total days of catching and eating the next day.

Situation B - I catch my limit of Crappie 3 consecutive days, store them in the freezer to be eaten at a later time.

Both situations equal me catching a total of 3 limits of Crappie in one week, situation A is legal, situation B is illegal. Explain that one.

I hope to get some piles of Crappie fillets in my freezer come this Spring. I'm really going to dedicate some time to getting after them this year.

Not just TWRA, if not all states, most states.

[cat-tales]

Hey TNBronzeback, where did you live in MI.? Sounds like my area.

I have a few friends who are MI DNR officers, they determine where you fished Mi. or Can. , and the limit you have as by where you launch and return your boat. Unless you're stopped on the water.

The bigger problem for the DNR was the St. Clair River / Lk. Huron area at Port Huron, legal limit in the River is 13 " and the Lake was 15", the dividing line being Blue Water Bridge.
So they came up with the "wherever you launched from" rule.

Michigan has similar possession laws ( 2 days limit in the freezer) , but they usually use that to prosecute poachers, used to be a lot of walleye poaching for restaurant sales along the St. Clair River.
I've never heard of them busting a regular guy for it.

[TNBronzeback]

i lived on Macomb County, Clinton Township.
used to catch alot of walleyes pulling wire under and netting smelt under that bridge! Good Times!

[cat-tales]

Pullin' wire was always fun , not to mention filling the freezer. We lived in Marysville .

[Heiny57]

Originally Posted by cat-tales

Pullin' wire was always fun , not to mention filling the freezer. We lived in Marysville .

OK for us southerners, what is pullin wire.

[cat-tales]

"Pullin' wire" is a type of trolling without a fishing rod, some refer to it as "handlining" ........the reel is a spring loaded spool, 8-9 inches in diameter, spooled up with pretty heavy wire line.
The reel is mounted on the forward gunwale of a small (14-16 ft. ) aluminum boat, with a conventional "tiller" outboard.
A heavy sinker ( 1-1 1/2 lb.) with a wire sticking out of the bottom is used to keep the baits ( usually Rapala types) down.

You troll around the river , holding the wire between your thumb & forefinger, staying in contact with the bottom (where the walleyes hang most of the time) , letting wire out or pulling it in .

To my knowledge, the technique was started on the St. Clair River / Detroit River . It is outlawed on the Professional Walleye Trail I think.

An extremely effective way to catch walleyes in a river setting, especially with the strong currents.

Believe it or not, it can become addictive. Right TNBronzeback ?!?