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re: What’s your fish cleaning set up
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:02 am to 007mag
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:02 am to 007mag
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Stainless Steel table from Ducote's restaurant supply, a large plastic cutting board from there as well and a 5 gallon bucket for the scraps. I use the electric knife to fillet all the fish then use the cutting board and a rapala fillet knife to remove the ribs and stray fin bone from the fillets.
Amen brother! Electric knife is the only way to go....I can do 50 crappie with an electric knife in about 15 minutes...like a machine. They ain't perfect but who cares when you have 50 to do? When I was kid we scaled, headed and gutted everything because we was cheap LOL....it would take 3 hours to do 50 crappie or bream that way!
I also almost never pluck a bird anymore...maybe a goose or 2 a season and a mallard if it is proper but I breast everything out...that's all anyone eats anyway and the difference between actually plucking a giant western Canada and breasting it out is about an hour....
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:07 am to Gtmodawg
Any of y'all ever age fish before cleaning? I always thought it was simply done to keep from doing them at days end but I discovered about 15 years ago that Snapper and Grouper and even kings and dolphin are better if you gill them and leave on ice a day or so....the flesh is FAR firmer, especially with grouper and snapper caught in relatively shallow water...say 20 feet or less. I have done it with crappie, bream, catfish and stripers and the difference is noticeable in the latter 2....use a BUNCH of ice though....and fresh ice, not the same ice that was on the boat all day....and leave the drain open so the water drains out. It really makes a difference....Grouper will behave like a ribeye on the grill if done this way....
Posted on 4/8/20 at 12:41 pm to Splackavellie
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What’s your fish cleaning set up
I fabricated mine from 316 stainless steel.
You can't see in the picture, but in the trough beneath the Orange bowl, there's an 8"×8" hole. Bottom side of the hole has tabs welded on where I can slide a standard round 5 gallon bucket into them securely for catching guts, carcasses and skins.
There's a hook welded on the side for hanging a warm water bucket for rinsing hands, or for lip hanging big catfish to bleed them out.
I just hose it off when I'm done using it and it stays clean.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 12:52 pm to Splackavellie
I have grandma's Porcelain sink from the old farm house.
look like the one below.
look like the one below.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 2:26 pm to Big Bill
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Got a buddy who is an aluminum welder and does a lot of road jobs. He built me a 8' x 3' x 36" high aluminum table with a cutout for a sink. Brother in law and I installed the sink and faucet and plumbed it last week. Cleaned 90 goggle eyes on it the next day - sweet!
Friend of mine had 1 built.
I plan on getting one. Makes things very nice.
I know most of you probably use towels or an old car mat or something to keep the fish from sliding around but there'sa better way. A company in Washington makes these rubber mats called fillet away.
Cost 30 bucks and it takes 10 seconds to hose it off clean after use.
They work well.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 2:56 pm to LSUintheNW
just checked it out, thanks,
Posted on 4/8/20 at 3:36 pm to Splackavellie
An old 4x12 (~35 years) piece of wood on a 5 gallon bucket. I sit on a milk crate. Old cheap fillet knives, nothing special. 99.999% freshwater and 75% of that is catfish.
There are probably better options, but we all get set in our ways.
There are probably better options, but we all get set in our ways.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 3:48 pm to Splackavellie
Pretty much what the OP does. Good size piece of plywood, a couple filet knives, a big bowl with ice in it to put the filets in when done and clean them on the tailgate of my truck. The garbage can with a liner is right next to me to dump the carcasses in and then in the big garbage can for the haulers to take.
I do the same thing with sacks of oysters when shucking them with the exception of tossing the shells in the trash. There's railroad tracks close to my house and I just dump them in with the rocks along the side of the tracks.
I do the same thing with sacks of oysters when shucking them with the exception of tossing the shells in the trash. There's railroad tracks close to my house and I just dump them in with the rocks along the side of the tracks.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 8:02 pm to Splackavellie
[/img] This is mine and it works well.
Right now I just turn around and catch the sac a lait under the bass boat. Efficiency is the word of the day.
By the way, I'm a Boomer.
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 7:42 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:09 am to Splackavellie
I have a regular 6' plastic table and a fillet table. I don't ever use the fillet table. On my regular table I cut some 1 1/4" PVC pipe about 16" and stuck them in the end of the leg to make it higher. On top I have a piece of cultured marble from a bathroom remodel. Works well for me.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:47 am to Splackavellie
Posted on 4/9/20 at 3:18 pm to Splackavellie
Back of table has a 1” gap to spray off scales. Behind the table is a 4x10 PVC cut length-wise and screwed to the table to keep the scales and fish juice from being sprayed on the boat.
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