| How to Enhance the Taste of your Fish --Part 1
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| My tip about how to enhance the taste of your fish is in 3 parts and applies to all fish. The first thing that I do when I get the fish free of the net and the hooks is to bleed it. Tie the fish through the mouth and gills with a small diameter (1/4 in.) rope (see Terminal Tackle article-the small yellow rope is visible in the walleye picture), hold overboard and slit the gills with a knife. Drag the fish around for a few minutes until it doesn't bleed anymore. Then, take it into the boat and put it into a cooler with some ice. |
| Why bleed the fish? Blood starts to deteriorate almost immediately and the sooner that you remove it, the less chance there is for the fish to take on a foreign taste. The ice speaks for itself. It is pretty hard to keep fish nice and fresh over a number of hours without ice, especially on a hot day. |
| The fish below is a salmon and I use it to illustrate, because of bleeding, how little blood is on the cleaning table. What a messy job this is if the fish has not been bled. |
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