Conundrum

[pimplepounder]

They weigh them in front of you and make out the weigh ticket with a stub, you have to have that stub to get your fish back, the other half goes in the uncleaned fish and stays with them the whole time, even after they are cleaned. I have never had a problem with his services losing fish and have always felt I have gotten my fish back. Best to get all the ice out of then while weighing them if having perch cleaned! They will have baskets for you to place the fish in before weighing. They will remain in that basket until cleaned then they wash and bag them and put them in a fridge.

Wakina, what I mean by this is.. I get so many comments from people (Did you save the Cheeks) I would think that there is money to be made by cutting them out. If some people want them then they have to pay to get them.. Boy if I worked for a cleaning place I could see me having a freezer full of nothing bu walleye cheeks.. lol

[wakina]

Wakina, what I mean by this is.. I get so many comments from people (Did you save the Cheeks) I would think that there is money to be made by cutting them out. If some people want them then they have to pay to get them.. Boy if I worked for a cleaning place I could see me having a freezer full of nothing bu walleye cheeks.. lol

From what I have seen they put them in a dumpster and they are picked up daily or every other day with the cheeks still on the carcass. That is not to say that they don't save some of them but allot of those who clean fish for a living don't like to eat fish! I can understand that part of it as most cleaning facilities have an smell that does not induce ones appetite for the source of that smell. I save them for me, my wife does not like them only because they have a different texture than the fillets. I cannot tell you why as she only uses that as the reason she does not like them, so I go with the old saying Happy Wife Happy Life an I do not push the subject!

[rscotfish]

i have gotten quart bags of cheeks from a professional cleaner that owns a bait shop, the fish market on telegraph sells them buy the pound i bought some they were frozen not fresh. they are so easy to take out just start at edge with fillet knife and scoop out only takes a few seconds when i take my walleye to cleaners i take them home and zip them and take out all the red meat before i freeze them i tried to freeze them and then clean them before a ate them they had a little fishy taste but sometimes i like that as long as i know where the fish come from and was handled properly. but i never had a yellow perch that taste bad. now fish for supper tomorrow with homemade tarter sauce which hides a little bit of the fish taste