What do you guy do?

[Lone Oak]

After cleaning your fish, how do you dispose the remains? Everytime, I double bag, the stench is so bad after a day or so in the garbage can (outside), you can stand to be anywhere close.
Does someone have a secret they would like to share on how to keep the smell down.

I thought of maybe takin them back to lake and disposing of them in the water, but that just don't seem right either.

 

[DoubleB]

Bury them in the garden and flower beds... no stench and it's a great fertilizer. !!!

 

[gobigorange]

I always throw mine back still alive. I dont really like the taste of fish. lol

 

[flip1up]

If you throw them back in the water, you'll just be feeding the turtles, is there something wrong with this that I havent thought of? Someone threw some remains on the bank at WT ramp and the smell is horrible there right now. But out in the water seems alright??? I carry mine up in the woods for the neighborhood coons. My wife feeds them on the back deck, so I try to lure them away.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

I've put them in the woods or threw them in the water. I wish I had a huge garden to bury them in! I don't. :-(

Once or twice I have disposed of the carcass remains via the dumpster at work. But only when I haven't had time to do the woods or water dump. I can't put them in the woods by my house either ... the girls love fish. Especially old rotten stinky fish .. for rubbin' in. Me ... I'm not particularly fond of that!

TT

 

[TKbigbass]

Bag up the remains and put them in the freezer until the day before garbage day then put in garbage.

 

[Fat Albert]

<font color="#ff0033">I like to walk across the street and put it in the neighbors garbage can....I can't stand stinking fish....

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[Guest]

I live in the woods and own enough land that I just take mine out and dump the remains far enough away that we can't smell it at the house. When I'm catching and cleaning on a daily basis I take fresh remains out and from day to day the critters pretty much keep them cleaned up. I lived in town for a short time years ago and I tried the garden bury but that won't work if you have dogs. They will dig up the bones and get them hung in their throat. Been there,done that, don't want to go back. Freezing and putting in trash on the day of garbage pickup sounds like a good plan. Or like FA says you could put in neighbors trash. I might even consider putting some in the dumpsters at some local convenience stores.emoSmile

Cheez

 

[Guest]

I like to drive thru a nearby street and put them in fat alberts garbage..

 

[gobigorange]

My comment was joking I dont clean fish I release them.

 

[rsimms]

TKbigbass - 3/29/2007 12:26 PM
Bag up the remains and put them in the freezer until the day before garbage day then put in garbage.

Me too... at least those that clients don't take home.

 

[whenwegoin]

Since I can't catch my own, when someone is kind enough to give me some I usually take the carcasses and put them in Yankee Skeeter's livewell. That is about the only time anything resembling a fish is in his livewell.

 

[YankeeSkeeter]

Now why would my fishing buddy say that. I know we only fished 1 tournament last year but if I'm not mistaken I put 5 fish in the boat that went 19 lb and cashed a check. All When had to do is net them for me..... But he is fun to fish with when he can get out!!!emoHoppingmad

 

[whenwegoin]

It is funny how when I am with you, you get a check. When I am not, well.....

 

[EricM]

The freezer trick works great. For those of you with a vacuum sealer, you can do it that way too. My wife prefers BOTH.

 

[MooseKnuckle]

Fat Albert - 3/29/2007 11:26 AM

<font color="#ff0033">I like to walk across the street and put it in the neighbors garbage can....I can't stand stinking fish....

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That's what I'm thinking! What else are neighbors good for?

 

[Guest]

Many years ago I caught a 19 pound catfish from a farm pond and when I cleaned it I put the head in a neighbors mailbox looking out. It was on a Saturday in August. I won't say anymore other than to use your imagination.emoVomit

Cheez

 

[jason]

You could put the mess in a blender and then pour it in a can for sale on Ebay as 'organic' dog and cat food

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[wishiwasfishin]

you're not supposed to eat the whole fish?

 

[Liveliner]

When I am going fishing the next day, I will take them to the water and feed the turtles and catfish. I sometimes bury them to enrich my garden. Sometimes toss them into the woods for the critters. However, my favorite thing to do with my trout waste is to save it in the freezer to be used as chum when the blue cats move in. Trout will get real fish oil smelly in the freezer. I have an old crank type meat grinder where I can grind up everything and put it into plastic butter tubs to freeze. I have a collection of mesh onion bags also. When I go catfishing this summer I will pop a chunk of ground-up frozen blood, guts and fish oil out of the tub into the onion bag. I tie it to my anchor or weight it and tie it to a rope and let it set on the bottom and thaw and call in the hungry catfish. I never put it into the trash. That is a waste of critter food.
Oh yeah, one more thing. I once placed a few pounds of bluegill waste on a Buick intake behind the carberator as a prank. It was in the summer and the owner could never find out where that foul stinch was coming from. No worries about the car being stolen. A thief would not get near that car.