Stripers

[Garry]

How many bleed your stripers ?

 

[Dworwood]

Most of the time, I try to do all fish I catch

 

[Ben johnson]

When we were fishing in TN. For 25/30# stripers use to bleed them all the time. Lake Powell strippers we don’t bleed but when we fillet them we cut out the red line.

 

[wayne gustaveson]

I put stripers in a cooler full of ice. Then when filleting fish I cut off the red meat. Either way works well.

 

[Richard]

I don't bleed them - Put them in a slurry of ice as I think most of us do -- When cleaning we also cut out the red line

 

[Big one]

it is pretty easy to just take a pair of scissors and cut both Gill and place in Live Well, they bleed out immediately

 

[cfulton]

We pull a gill to bleed out every fish we intend to keep and then let it bleed out in the live well before putting it on ice. Much cleaner on the filet table and you don't have to wash blood out of the meat. if you don't bleed them then one side will be bloody during filleting. It only takes a second and sure make the clean up easier and cleaner. Chuck

 

[Fursniper]

I don't bleed them or remove the dark meat. Just filet them ASAP after they are caught and wash off the fillets.