Quote Originally Posted by eriecaster View Post
Just wondering how many guys here cut their walleye after their catch. Seen a guy at the cleaners that did this and those things were white. Just wondering if it was worth the mess? What's your thoughts?
Absolutely cut the fish! Not only does it make for a nice white fillet but when you clean them there is very little mess on the fillet table and the cooler is much easier to clean too because you don't have all that blood getting kicked around.

I just carry a couple of 5 gallon buckets put a little water in one, cut the fish, drop it in the water and put the second bucket inside the first one containing the fish so it can't splash around, wait 5 minutes , remove the fish and put it on ice.

You'll be glad you started doing this! Make sure when you cut you get the main artery so it bleeds out, you'll know when you hit it!