08-05-2025, 01:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2025, 01:35 PM by SkunkedAgain.)
Hey Curt,
I ended up doing one picture at a time, and I still have to put them in from my phone, but it worked, I just couldn't do them all in the same post. Don't know why, maybe I was doing something else wrong... Anyway got it to work...
On our Salmon, we were staying with friends in a house/cabin and they had a great set up for filleting at rivers edge, then we took them up to their garage and vacuum packed them and put them into one of two freezers they had there for fish. They were mostly all frozen solid before we left and then we used those airline shipping boxes that have a Styrofoam lined box and they got everything home without thawing at all that I could tell.. It was a good thing, since all of the commercial flash freezer places had lines stretching way out through their parking lots with folks waiting to get their fish processed... The fish were running everywhere like crazy, from the beaches and the dip netters to the rivers and even out in the ocean, it was a fishing mecca for sure... I'll see if I can attach a few photos of the fish processing..
On the smallies some were from cutler and the better ones were from a location I promised I wouldn't disclose, so sorry can't say on them.. But the 15"er from Cutler was my best of the year for that area, got ten fish that day from 12-15", was fun and earlier than they usually show up in my fall locations... I guess fishing for smallies instead of focusing on cats this time of year might be a fun new twist... Just wish I had more time to get out and chase them, but then, maybe I'd be bored of catching fish.... yeah right... Later Jeff
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Maybe a little explanation of the pictures, top one we would let the fillets dry slightly before we vacuum packed them, nice to have an area without flys so you could do this... Other picture is of a fillet station on the rivers edge they had a nice set up with clean water and they told me it's the law that you fillet the fish and throw the carcass back in the river, hence the fillet and release hat... Anyway I've never had such a nice place set up for preserving your catch, and I did learn the value of bleeding the fish... My first ones I didn't do that and man they were a mess with blood still in the meat, but after I filleted the first ones and seen the difference between the bled ones and the others, I made sure I bled all the rest...
Oh question about fillet knifes, have any of your heard of Dexter knifes? I had my expensive Cutco fillet knife with me and man that Dexter in the fishhouse was so much nicer to fillet salmon... I think I'm going to get me a Dexter... Anyway later Jeff
I ended up doing one picture at a time, and I still have to put them in from my phone, but it worked, I just couldn't do them all in the same post. Don't know why, maybe I was doing something else wrong... Anyway got it to work...
On our Salmon, we were staying with friends in a house/cabin and they had a great set up for filleting at rivers edge, then we took them up to their garage and vacuum packed them and put them into one of two freezers they had there for fish. They were mostly all frozen solid before we left and then we used those airline shipping boxes that have a Styrofoam lined box and they got everything home without thawing at all that I could tell.. It was a good thing, since all of the commercial flash freezer places had lines stretching way out through their parking lots with folks waiting to get their fish processed... The fish were running everywhere like crazy, from the beaches and the dip netters to the rivers and even out in the ocean, it was a fishing mecca for sure... I'll see if I can attach a few photos of the fish processing..
On the smallies some were from cutler and the better ones were from a location I promised I wouldn't disclose, so sorry can't say on them.. But the 15"er from Cutler was my best of the year for that area, got ten fish that day from 12-15", was fun and earlier than they usually show up in my fall locations... I guess fishing for smallies instead of focusing on cats this time of year might be a fun new twist... Just wish I had more time to get out and chase them, but then, maybe I'd be bored of catching fish.... yeah right... Later Jeff
Maybe a little explanation of the pictures, top one we would let the fillets dry slightly before we vacuum packed them, nice to have an area without flys so you could do this... Other picture is of a fillet station on the rivers edge they had a nice set up with clean water and they told me it's the law that you fillet the fish and throw the carcass back in the river, hence the fillet and release hat... Anyway I've never had such a nice place set up for preserving your catch, and I did learn the value of bleeding the fish... My first ones I didn't do that and man they were a mess with blood still in the meat, but after I filleted the first ones and seen the difference between the bled ones and the others, I made sure I bled all the rest...
Oh question about fillet knifes, have any of your heard of Dexter knifes? I had my expensive Cutco fillet knife with me and man that Dexter in the fishhouse was so much nicer to fillet salmon... I think I'm going to get me a Dexter... Anyway later Jeff
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!