Hey everyone, I just bought a house in town and was wondering how everyone disposes of their fish guts? I’ve lived in the country all my life so they always ended up in the woods or garden and with no neighbors around it was no big deal but now I am not sure what to do with them?!
Bury them or freeze them and toss them in the can on garbage day.
I follow the freeze and toss day of trash pick up.
I follow the freeze and toss day of trash pick up.
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x3 on that method.
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I thought that was what gas station garbage cans are for. No? 
OK, totally true story. Another member of these fine forums used to fish salmon on the north shore back in the day.
He and his roommate rented an apartment, so they had no place to clean fish at home, so they would field clean salmon and put the guts in a bag.
Then they would stop at the same little Quckie Mart on the way back into Duluth and while one guy stocked up on Twinkies, Dew, and chew, they other would discreetly slip the bag-o-guts into the gas station dumpster. Problem solved, right?
Well, as you’d guess, they went to the well once too often and on about the 3rd stop of the season, they noticed that bolted to the front of the dumpster was a sign and they got the vague feeling that it might be directed at them:
TO THE SONS OF B!TCHES THAT KEEP PUTTING SALMON GUTS IN OUR TRASH. WE’RE GOING TO CATCH YOU AND KICK YOUR SPAWN SACK UP AROUND YOUR EARS.
Of course, this sign could only be read one way. As a challenge… Another gut dump-n-run did follow.
Grouse
Lol buddy does the same thing with duck carcasses, I just have a stinky garbage can most of the time especially in the fall
Don’t forget, if your neighbor SHOULD have a garden and you don’t get along too well, their yard is a perfect place 
Bury them or freeze them and toss them in the can on garbage day.
I usually put them in the freezer, then I forget to put them in the garbage and wind up with a bunch of well preserved fish guts!
All I know if I had fish guts in the freezer the woman would go freaking bananas and definitely not like this 
All I know if I had fish guts in the freezer the woman would go freaking bananas and definitely not like this
That’s why we have multiple freezers, inside one for Mama, outside is Dad’s business. As for the OP in the winter (below freezing) I bag them up and throw them directly into the outside garbage, in the summer I will bury them in the garden early in the year or bag and freeze until garbage day.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>B-man wrote:</div>
Bury them or freeze them and toss them in the can on garbage day.I usually put them in the freezer, then I forget to put them in the garbage and wind up with a bunch of well preserved fish guts!
Yeah same here.
I’m like Bigwerm.
In the winter I usually just dump them right in the garbage.
In the warm months I usually just dig a shallow grave and give them a proper burial (sandy soil, it’s takes 30 seconds of my time and they’re done).
Just freeze them and put them in the trash can on pick up day.
I also garden and will freeze a bunch. Just before its time to plants the tomatoes and peppers I thaw a couple packs and run them thru the grinder to make a slurry. I use a post hole digger to make the holes for the plants and go about a foot deeper than needed. I add a cup/cup and a half of the ground fish to the hole then back-fill to the height I need to set the plants. As thee roots grow down and into the decomposing fish matter those plants get a super growing spurt. No smell at all, all benefit to the plants.
One spring wife and i caught a bunch of crappies , slipped my mind to freeze them . Had them in the can for 2 0r 3 days. Garbage day comes and the pick up guy loses his cookies. Did not know this until years later ,same guy was driving semi. Comes in for a load and we start talking fishing and he recounts this stinky collection . I ask if he remembered where? He gives me general location. I knew immediately it was me. I apologised. And we both laughed. They are something else when simmering in a garbage bag !
All I know if I had fish guts in the freezer the woman would go freaking bananas and definitely not like this
Well for Pete’s sake…you don’t tell them what it is!!
One spring wife and i caught a bunch of crappies , slipped my mind to freeze them . Had them in the can for 2 0r 3 days. Garbage day comes and the pick up guy loses his cookies. Did not know this until years later ,same guy was driving semi. Comes in for a load and we start talking fishing and he recounts this stinky collection . I ask if he remembered where? He gives me general location. I knew immediately it was me. I apologised. And we both laughed. They are something else when simmering in a garbage bag !
Early one fall I bought and slaughtered two pigs. Killed them and dressed them at the farm, then brought them home to hang butcher. When the pigs were skun and the heads removed I rolled the hides and set them in the dumpster and set the heads right in top to keep the hides from un-rolling. Of course I closed the dumpster cover.
The next morning I was just getting dressed when the garbage man backed into the lot and stopped. I tossed on jeans and made for the door to warn the guy but didn’t quite make it. He swung open the top up just as I started to open the door and howled out a shriek that could be heard for miles. The guy put half his bladder in his bibs. I went out and tried my best to apologize but he was a little slow on acceptance. The next week I met him with an ice cold six pack we started over on getting along. After that incident I am pretty careful what I put in the trash if its not wrapped.
All I know if I had fish guts in the freezer the woman would go freaking bananas and definitely not like this
Over a frozen bag of fish guts
I would love to see her reaction to to this during trapping season! All my wife asks is to keep the hair out of the ice cubes and to clean it out in Spring. I love my wife but if she got that pissy over a bag of frozen guts, I’ld seriously question her mental health. Much worse things in life to endure 
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Yeah that would be a sight to see at my place, she doesn’t even like watching me clean fish, but she sure gobbles them up when I cook em
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