Daze tip of the week 4-20-09

CPR is gaining lots of support, and it is great to see the support from the conservation minded anglers on this site. Many of us still like a meal of fish, so I figure it might be beneficial to discuss caring for your catch to ensure a tastey meal. The days of dead fish on the stringer are long gone. Keeping fish alive or iced is essential to a “Fresh” fish taste. I get many commments during shorelunch from gals saying “WOW I guess I do like fish!!” LOL!! Take care of your catch for a meal. Clean the fish asap when arriving to the dock. Wash the fillets repeatedly to ensure there is no slime left on the meat especially for pike. Learn the proper methods of removing bones from whatever fish you target. Nobody likes a mouth full of bones. Fresh fish most always taste better than frozen fish. If freezing be sure to submerge the fillets in water to help preserve the meat, and guard against freezer burn. Lastly be REAL….stock piles of fish with freezer burn in the bottom of your freezer WILL NOT taste as good as a fresh catch. Package the fish in “MEALS” often times anglers are guilty of putting way way to many fish in a package. Then when cooking the fish they throw away 1/2 because they couldn’t force them all down!! Taking the proper steps from catching the fish to preparing the fish is essential for a great meal!!

Tight lines and full bellies!!

Great advice

Great Post! For me, the seal-a-meal vacuum units are the way to go. Several different ones made. But they keep the fish as fresh as the day they were caught. No water to package them in. Also, they can be thawed and cooked in less than 5 minutes.

Bleeding fish: Learned this trick when doing shore lunches and now I do it for all fish that I keep to eat.

Looking at the fish belly up, using a knife or scissors, cut the place on the underside between the gills. The blood will start flowing immediately, resulting in blood free fillets.

I’m sure others have their techniques too. Happy eating!

I can’t wait to dominate some shore lunch.

Great advice .
BB1
PS Dont forget the beer LOL

Thanks for getting the saliva started Chris! I can picture it now… pulling up to a remote campsite on Rainy, nobody else around, a loon ringing the dinner bell in the distance… mother nature setting the table… and me… burning hot dogs on the end of a stick… Don’t forget to bring the brats, just in case. I’m sure you never have to worry about this Chris, but in my boat, the rule is, “It’s better to have hot dogs stashed in the cooler, and not need them, rather than need them and not have them.” ONLY TWO MONTHS TILL MY NEXT TRIP TO RAINY! The juices are already flowin.

Erik Osberg

“Remember, it’s not about HAVING time, it’s about MAKING time.”