07-14-2011, 06:28 PM
They look good. If I am fishing for meat and have room for a cooler, I like bleeding and then straight on ice best.
In a float tube it is hard to have the room to do that though, especially if I have a battery and motor on it.
Keeping them alive in a basket works ok too, then bleed as I come into shore. With a lot of small panfish bleeding doesn't seem to make as much of a difference in the fillets as in the larger fish.
In areas that have some chem. contamination like PCBs, then it is best to remove all of the darker flesh and fat anyway, even in well bleed fish.
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In a float tube it is hard to have the room to do that though, especially if I have a battery and motor on it.
Keeping them alive in a basket works ok too, then bleed as I come into shore. With a lot of small panfish bleeding doesn't seem to make as much of a difference in the fillets as in the larger fish.
In areas that have some chem. contamination like PCBs, then it is best to remove all of the darker flesh and fat anyway, even in well bleed fish.
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