02-25-2014, 06:39 PM
I am not the least bit embarrassed to say that eating fish is one of the reasons I catch fish.
I prefer to keep the mid-sized versions of most species, releasing the larger brood fish unless it is a species that can overpopulate and stunt. Mid-size tends to taste better, anyway.
I keep a cooler on my kayak and put keepers on ice immediately. Where legal, I gut them on the water, also. I use a cord stringer on streams, but try to not keep fish until I'm within an hour of leaving. I pass the stringer cord through the lower lip skin, not through the gills. That keeps the fish alive until I'm ready to kill and clean it when leaving. Cooler and ice in the truck, of course.
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I prefer to keep the mid-sized versions of most species, releasing the larger brood fish unless it is a species that can overpopulate and stunt. Mid-size tends to taste better, anyway.
I keep a cooler on my kayak and put keepers on ice immediately. Where legal, I gut them on the water, also. I use a cord stringer on streams, but try to not keep fish until I'm within an hour of leaving. I pass the stringer cord through the lower lip skin, not through the gills. That keeps the fish alive until I'm ready to kill and clean it when leaving. Cooler and ice in the truck, of course.
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