Break their neck then they will fall to the bottom.

 

Better yet, quit acting like trash and either burry it in the garden or freeze them until trash day and throw them out. Hell, with the small limits that we have now you could probably get a couple trips in a freezer before it would need to be emptied.

The garden thing works great though.

 

The garden thing does work great. A tomato plant over a fish carcass will tower over the one next to it without a fish.

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I clean my fish at the ramp vs having to deal with it at the house. I have never seen one of our fish float up. How about the better option of a fish cleaning station at the boat launches?

 

Yea!! Cause dead fish in the water isn't natural!

 

Too many dead fish in a small area can cause problems though. In a place like Sherman Cove it's actually better to throw them in the trash bin.

Jim

 

It pisses me off mostly because I usually come back to a launch with zero fish and the carcassses of someone's delicious dinner are mocking me.

 

I give all my carcasses to my Asian friends and they waste nothing and are very happy when I bring them to them. they get every speck of meat off every carcass and make me fresh lumpia.(not with fish though)

 

I need to meet your friends...lumpia is awesome!

 

I gut my fish when they come over the rail. This cuts the carnage in half plus it bleeds them to. Once I get home we chop the heads and tails into 5gal buckets. Then drop them into the bait freezer. The night before the next trip I chill my fish boxes before filling with ice. the next morning I remove and fill with ice. My ice last a lot longer and dump the buckets at the first stop out about 20miles catching bait. The buckets are still frozen the next morning for the most part.


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I clean mine at the house and dump the guts in trashcan, after a day or two they stink like hell and keep strangers away.

 

Why do you wade in the water to load your boat?

 

To hook winch eye on boat and pull all the way up on trailer.

 

I walk along the trailer...especially if there's a hundred fish carcasses right there lol.

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On mine, you have to get in water to get on trailer. Have camper shell, so cant climb into truck bed first. Trust me, if I didn't have to wade, I wouldnt.

 

Good one Fry!

 

In most of coastal Louisiana, there are fish cleaning stations next to most boat launches, and the standard operating procedure is to toss the carcasses in the water. At the busier launches, it is obvious that the carcasses are quickly recycled back into the food chain by abundant mullet, catfish, drum, pinfish, sheephead, toadfish, crabs, etc., etc.

I don't see any environmental issues with the practice and in the locations where it is allowed, the children love to sit by the cleaning stations and catch the mullet, pinfish, ladyfish, croaker, catfish, etc. Been known to let the children fill up the live well before heading out.

 

A few fish carcasses is okay. But in a relatively closed environment it"s not so good. Imagine throwing a mullet carcass into an aquarium. Then imagine throwing in 100 fish carcasses.

You can spoil the cove pretty quick. Till the next flood.

I enjoy feeding pelicans, heck I love teasing them and watching them dance. But, too many fish carcasses can be bad for any site. It cannot hurt to bag your fish carcass and throw them into the the trash. Or use them in a garden.

( I would not eat a tomato grown in a fish compost unless it were composted on the side first. Just me though)

Jim

 

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( I would not eat a tomato grown in a fish compost unless it were composted on the side first. Just me though)

Jim

Probably what happened to all them Indians and Pilgrams..........