transporting fish

  • hawkeye27
    Posts: 324
    November 23, 2010 at 2:23 am #1269639

    I need some help! I am headed to Colorado tomorrow to do some duck and goose hunting. Told the guide I would produce some walleye fillets for him. The question is do I have to put them in a check bag or can I put them with the normal luggage? Temps are suppose to be cold and I will be wrapping them in foil. It is a 2 hour flight some I am not concerned about thawing out they are frozen rock hard. Has anyone flown with fillets before if so how did it work?

    floydthegreat
    Posts: 61
    November 23, 2010 at 2:38 am #911688

    Recently on a trip to seattle I had the same problem but it was transporting fish back after going on a salmon fishing charter. All i did was go to target, buy a cheap lunchbox and filled it with fillets and ice. I carried it on the plane with no problem.

    joe-bauman
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 237
    November 23, 2010 at 4:07 am #911715

    I flew from Bismarck to Rochester this spring and put my 5 frozen walleye fillets in a small cooler and carried them on the plane with no issues.

    super_do
    St Michael, MN
    Posts: 1089
    November 23, 2010 at 12:49 pm #911743

    If it is only going to be a couple hours….I would wrap them in a bunch of newspaper. Maybe 20 sheets and put in your check luggage. That should keep it for quite a while. We flew back from Texas with some frozen hog meat a few years ago and just wrapped it up in our sleeping bags. It was still hard after about 6 hours.

    John Schultz
    Inactive
    Portage, WI
    Posts: 3309
    November 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm #911756

    Quote:

    It was still hard after about 6 hours.

    You should have called a doctor.

    Ted Wedul
    holmen, wi
    Posts: 765
    November 23, 2010 at 1:37 pm #911759

    Quote:

    Quote:

    It was still hard after about 6 hours.

    You should have called a doctor.

    That’s a good one…

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    November 23, 2010 at 1:55 pm #911770

    Overnight shipping.

    -J.

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    November 23, 2010 at 2:13 pm #911773

    Quote:

    Quote:

    It was still hard after about 6 hours.

    You should have called a doctor.

    To each their own, but I would call a nurse first…..

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    November 23, 2010 at 6:24 pm #911851

    I was thinking about this last night, going to New Orleans for some Mardi Gras, and just happens to be during the crawfish run. Wanted to figure out a way to ship a cooler full, will have to look into shipping rates to overnight a big cooler full of blissful little tasty morsels, and take a carry-on.

    sharkbait
    The mud puddle in western Ks
    Posts: 347
    November 26, 2010 at 8:44 pm #912520

    When we came back to Kansas from Racine last summer thay would not allow any water/Ice in the checked bags.We used a small cooler with the frozen fillets in them and got by fine.

    wahly
    Cedar Rapids, Ia
    Posts: 130
    November 26, 2010 at 10:01 pm #912529

    A couple years back we flew to Virginia beach with some perch fillets for my son. I froze them in water in gallon bags and wrapped in newspaper and put them in my suitcase. I half excpected to get stipped searched , giving the 5th degree and all but we had no problems and made it thru all the check points and the fish arrive perfectly frozen

Viewing 11 posts - 1 through 11 (of 11 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.