We ate the trout I caught 11 months ago. It tasted OK! I'll share the video here after I finish making it. Not planning on keeping a fish in the freezer for that long again but nice to know I can still eat it if I do.
We spend five days at Buoy 10 fishing each day and camping. For a number of years I have been doing a quick fillet off each side and put each in a ziplock bag. Then in a cooler with ice to keep till we go home. "I was told that ruins the salmon to leave them whole". Just gut and gill and put on ice. Drain water and add more ice each day. What is your recommendation to store fish when camping say five days and best way to store salmon till you get home. Once home I usually do all the fine cutting, rays bones removed and cut up into meal sizes and put food wrap around each piece and each in a vacuum bag. Main question is store whole gutted and gilled or take each fillet off and store while camping a number of days. I avoid doing much at the cleaning stations because they have to be bad with bacteria.
I thought fish had to be gutted before freezing because leaving the guts in is toxic to the meat. Will have to do some more research online about this, but feel free to leave me a comment with helpful information, and thanks for the video. We're cleaning, cutting, cooking, and freezing fillets tonight. tyvm.
Personally I’ve never tried it both ways. The little ones under 15” I gut and bleed out in the creek right away and the bigger ones I cut the head off too. I’ve just found it easier to clean them as soon as I catch them to get the cleanest freshest meat possible. I like the smaller ones for smoking because it penetrates the meat easier without having to clean a bone free fillet and losing meat. (Although you still don’t lose much meat filleting a trout properly. But the big ones need it to smoke properly
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have a good bunch of small to medium size fish that were sitting, whole, un-gutted, in the deep freezer in freezer bags for 2 years now. Are these edible or gone?
Rob Schneider By gutting the salmon it leaves the meat exposed to be freezer burned. By leaving it whole, the entire outside skin of the fish is in tact and acts as a barrier to protect the meat within. If using this method, we would recommend not gutting the fish.
Thanks for video here! I am a new fishermen, and I am getting a lot of negative feedback when I suggest not gutting fish before freezing. Do you have a source where I can find more supportive information about this method? I hope so, not gutting would save me a lot of time.
Did you say salmon will store for 6-9 months but trout only a couple of months? I caught a trout and stored in my freezer going on 7 months now. I was going to eat it now, is that ok?!
What if you don't 'bleed' the fish? Went on a boat in the sea and we caught literally around 100 fish and was given about 20 of them. Came home late with them and just put them in the freezer in a large black plastic bag. Anything I should worry about?
This is great stuff, I am definitely going to try this soon. But please don't advise people to use those plastic draw string garbage bags. It looks like you used one on the salmon. Those things are coated with a perfume deodorant that is probably not good for the fish.
I see that you had the fish in a standard garbage bag? You should never store fish in a Garbage bag as many are scented and have pesticides impregnated into the plastics. That is why they are used for GARBAGE not fresh food! If you need to use bags of large size, use yard/leaf bags or specialty food safe plastic bags as they are not impregnated with anything.
We ate the trout I caught 11 months ago. It tasted OK! I'll share the video here after I finish making it. Not planning on keeping a fish in the freezer for that long again but nice to know I can still eat it if I do.
So you keep the guts in the fish still for that entire time? Never seen this method before
Very clear and direct. Thank you good video.👍
We spend five days at Buoy 10 fishing each day and camping. For a number of years I have been doing a quick fillet off each side and put each in a ziplock bag. Then in a cooler with ice to keep till we go home. "I was told that ruins the salmon to leave them whole". Just gut and gill and put on ice. Drain water and add more ice each day. What is your recommendation to store fish when camping say five days and best way to store salmon till you get home. Once home I usually do all the fine cutting, rays bones removed and cut up into meal sizes and put food wrap around each piece and each in a vacuum bag. Main question is store whole gutted and gilled or take each fillet off and store while camping a number of days. I avoid doing much at the cleaning stations because they have to be bad with bacteria.
How do you keep them from sticking to each other?
I see that Washington apple box back there! You must be local
I thought fish had to be gutted before freezing because leaving the guts in is toxic to the meat. Will have to do some more research online about this, but feel free to leave me a comment with helpful information, and thanks for the video. We're cleaning, cutting, cooking, and freezing fillets tonight. tyvm.
Personally I’ve never tried it both ways. The little ones under 15” I gut and bleed out in the creek right away and the bigger ones I cut the head off too. I’ve just found it easier to clean them as soon as I catch them to get the cleanest freshest meat possible. I like the smaller ones for smoking because it penetrates the meat easier without having to clean a bone free fillet and losing meat. (Although you still don’t lose much meat filleting a trout properly. But the big ones need it to smoke properly
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have a good bunch of small to medium size fish that were sitting, whole, un-gutted, in the deep freezer in freezer bags for 2 years now. Are these edible or gone?
If you gut the salmon first and then freeze it whole will it still keep the same as not gutting it?
Rob Schneider By gutting the salmon it leaves the meat exposed to be freezer burned. By leaving it whole, the entire outside skin of the fish is in tact and acts as a barrier to protect the meat within. If using this method, we would recommend not gutting the fish.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the great tips... I will try out your methods next time I catch a big one..
Thanks for video here! I am a new fishermen, and I am getting a lot of negative feedback when I suggest not gutting fish before freezing. Do you have a source where I can find more supportive information about this method? I hope so, not gutting would save me a lot of time.
The reason you're getting negative feed back is because its a stupid suggestion.
Clean the fish and don't be lazy. Or catch and release.
Eating trout with nephew tomorrow...frozen whole for almost a year
Good lesson thank you
thanks, now i can store a whole ass fish
Did you say salmon will store for 6-9 months but trout only a couple of months? I caught a trout and stored in my freezer going on 7 months now. I was going to eat it now, is that ok?!
Its not gonna kill ya, might just taste bad
What if you don't 'bleed' the fish? Went on a boat in the sea and we caught literally around 100 fish and was given about 20 of them. Came home late with them and just put them in the freezer in a large black plastic bag. Anything I should worry about?
He Eric did you eat the fish you caught?
How do you prevent fish from getting freezer burn?
Vacuum seal, make sure the fish is dry before you seal it
Does this work with catfish?
Leave freezer door open longer
I vaccum pack the fillets, they keep well.
How?
@@machoocho1 Probably with a vacuum sealer..
This is great stuff, I am definitely going to try this soon. But please don't advise people to use those plastic draw string garbage bags. It looks like you used one on the salmon. Those things are coated with a perfume deodorant that is probably not good for the fish.
They make unscented bags........
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I see that you had the fish in a standard garbage bag? You should never store fish in a Garbage bag as many are scented and have pesticides impregnated into the plastics. That is why they are used for GARBAGE not fresh food! If you need to use bags of large size, use yard/leaf bags or specialty food safe plastic bags as they are not impregnated with anything.