After you catch?

[ReelTime]

I bleed all our fish. I hook them on a stringer tied to the mid ship cleat, cut them with a cheap pair of kitchen shears and let them dangle for 5 minutes or so. Then them come back in and go on ice.

[j-mar]

What part of fish do you cut.

[ReelTime]

Underneath just below where the gills come together where it makes a V.

[ack]

i have been cutting them for years. running short on time i had the guy that cleans fish at Maumee Tackle this year clean a mess for me. he commented on how nice the fish were and thanked me for bleeding them. he then told me that just popping one gill would do the same. i have yet to try that but if i ever make it back up there that is the way i am going to try it.

[Bggeary]

i have been cutting them for years. running short on time i had the guy that cleans fish at Maumee Tackle this year clean a mess for me. he commented on how nice the fish were and thanked me for bleeding them. he then told me that just popping one gill would do the same. i have yet to try that but if i ever make it back up there that is the way i am going to try it.

That is exactly what I do, slice a gill or two put them head first into a 5 gal. bucket 1/2 full of cool water. Makes a big difference when cleaning. Just make sure you have the head in the water or you could get an eye full of blood. They WILL squirt!

[Brian425]

Easier than cutting them, just use a pair of pliers and yank a gill, they bleed out in no time. Although it can squirt a bit, saturday the boat looked like a murder scene from one of them!

[faithwalker]

Easier than cutting them, just use a pair of pliers and yank a gill, they bleed out in no time. Although it can squirt a bit, saturday the boat looked like a murder scene from one of them!

absolutely but make sure you do it with fish in live well..they bleed all over.....big time...

[LEfriend]

I bleed all our fish. I hook them on a stringer tied to the mid ship cleat, cut them with a cheap pair of kitchen shears and let them dangle for 5 minutes or so. Then them come back in and go on ice.

Works for me too. I tied one (or two) metal stringer clip (from a chain stringer) on a piece of nylon parachute cord tied to a side cleat. No noise, no scratching boat. Clip fish on the stringer inside the boat, hold it over the side, cut the V with scissors, drop it in water. Ready for cooler in a minute or two. No mess or blood in boat. No extra bucket in way. And best, I like the safety of not handling a sharp knife in a bouncing boat..... I have done the gills bit but seems to me the scissors to the throat bleeds more.

[Capt Juls]

Now that the water is getting warmer, and the fish go belly up pretty quick with a full live well, I will start cutting and throwing them on ice for my customers.

My live well pumps water in and then I can switch it to pump water out. So, after they bleed, I pump the bloody water out and pump fresh in again.

[Shelly J]

No live well on the Shelly J.WE use a 5 gallon bucket about half full of lake water,hold there head in bucket,snip there throat and leave them after a while or when someone has time throw on ice and change out water.Works good for us and taste better.