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Old June 8th, 2006, 03:16 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing
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Default Newby Question on fresh caught fish and equipment

I don't keep many fish but when I do I want the fish to be fresh.
Sitting in a live well or deck on the deck of the boat make good
compost but not good table fare. Stress sends out all kinds of bad
things into a fish. I take the meat right off as soon as the hooks out.
Put the meat in a zip lock and then in a cooler over ice. Here in CT we
aren't supposed to cut up fish like Fluke or Stripers that have size
limits. But if you KEEP the carcass with you or the pieces of meat are
over the legal size limit in length for that fish it's okay.

Good luck

Jay