View Full Version : Fish Scale, Worm Tail, and Walleye Wiff ...?
BGunn
08-28-2001, 05:24 PM
Two questions...
What do you find is the best cleaner for the boat to remove all of the above? (without making it smell unmanly of course!)Although the smell of the boat is OK to me, and makes me want to get out fishing each time I walk by it (I wonder how Ode D'Walleye would sell?), I guess to others it leaves a little to be desired.
How the heck do you keep the smell of fish innards from erupting from your garbage can, two days after a good outing, with this hot weather? Man, even that smells bad to me! My dog even stays out of the garage!
smiley
08-28-2001, 06:04 PM
We bring our boat to the car wash and hose it out. If you have a garden, bury the fish "leftovers". Good for the garden and garbage man!!
Just my opinion.
Lisa
Ungawa
08-28-2001, 08:04 PM
Keep your 50 lb dog food bags or salt bags from your water softener or any other heavy duty bags like them. I simply put the guts and other stuff in these bags (the dog food bags are foil lined and are really leak proof) while I'm cleaning fish and then I wrap the bags up nice and tight and throw them into my chest freezer! Simply get them out of the freezer on the AM of garbage pickup and you won't have to deal with the smell, etc. etc. Before I had a chest freezer I'd use smaller bags in regular freezer in the extra refrig in the garage. I used to bury in the garden until my dog and the other neighborhood dogs and skunks started digging them up and then you want to talk about a mess and lots of smell :-(
I like to use Simple Green to clean the inside of the boat including the bait and live wells.
Good luck,
Ungawa
Stormsearch
08-29-2001, 04:25 AM
I follow Ungawa's advice, freezing the remains works great.
Get rid of the guts right away. My two favorite ways to get rid of fish guts are, find a dumpster in town, somewhere where you wont get caught. Or, On my way home when I stop to buy this high priced gas, while filling up I grab the bag and deposit it in the garbage can right between the pumps that most of them have. Pay for the gas and I'm on my way. As far as cleaning the boat, Simple Green does work good but if you don't like the smell find your local Malco distributor which usually stops at all car dealerships and he has a product that works even better than Simple Green called, Red Thunder. Has a good manly smell.
Wrap the fish guts in paper. then stuff them in a plastic bag or two so that they cant leak out. Then put them in the freezer until garbage day. Frozen innards dont smell
This is what my wife makes me do. She doesn't allow crawlers in the fridge either.