killing fish before crossing canadian line

[fishnuts]

We now have to kill our walleyes before crossing this invisible boarder crossing in the Detroit river. What is the preferred method for this? Do we club them on the head? Do we slit their gills? Do we gut them open? Or do we just scare them to death by saying they are now going to Detroit?

[K Gonefishin]

Scare them. :banging:

[Stircrazy]

The best way to kill Canadian Walleye is to tell them that Kawamme is going to run for Mayor of Windsor.

[Hawgeye]

I would slit the gills and let them bleed out. Results in nice clean white fillets with hardly any mess at the cleaing table.

[perchjerker]

I agree with Hawgeye

I just clip a few of the gills with side cutters and let them bleed out. I do this anyway, so its no big deal to me

[Klaas Act - Rich Ziert]

Is this a ploy to have your conscience take over ? Nothing wrong with a good conscience. . . ayer. Frogs don't care about nothing except sex , wine, and being incapable of winning in battle. They first get drunk, then they muse about sex, and then they lose contenance. . . the battle is lost. Been that way for many , many decades. Not all Canooks are like this. . . only Frogs.

Keep only what you can eat for the day - put the rest back in the Canook Water. Don't think about giving some away - only to have them freezer burn and be dumped.

[bob oh]

Who gets drunk? LOL Keep all you want that are legal. I also bleed them. Proper packing or eating them stops freezer burn.

rod bender bob

[REW]

This post reminds me of the other night>

A friend and I had gone out to the river and picked up a few walleyes for supper.

My son was with me when I was cleaning the fish, and was giving me a bad time, because I wasn't clubbing them before beginning to clean them.

So, in accordance with his wishes, I had just decided to stick, them with the tip of the knife before filleting them.

I had a fiesty fish that was reluctant to be stuck, so just as I was bringing the tip of the knife down to dispatch him - he jerked and instead of the fish - I managed to sink the tip of the razor sharp knife into the back of my thumb down to the bone.

Ouch!!

Of course I had the last laught - but the fish sure had their say first!!

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When I am in the boat and began to empty the livewell - I generally bang them in the head - with a bat that I carry in the boat. It is a foot long club that works very well and humanely to dispatch the fish.

Take care
REW

[raedel]

I stick the tip of my knife under the "chin" area and slit toward the head for about 2". The good part of this is very white fillets.

Scott

[perchjerker]

either way works. I would not rather pull out a knife and try to cut a flopping fish in 3-4 ft waves, clipping a few gills with side cutters is mush easier and safer for me

the other nice thing about bleeding them is when you clean them later at home, since there is no blood its a lot cleaner of a process

[raedel]

Slitting the fish can be difficult at times. I am going to try clipping the gills.

Scott

[Jim Tunney]

Clip the gills. You'll get the best filet you have ever seen.

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[unlogged Tom O]

REW, most of us that fish Erie use an electric knife when filleting walleyes so no more cuts from sharp knives lol. Years ago before we used electric knives I was helping a good friend clean a bunch of walleyes and he slipped with his knife and cut a tendon in his thumb. Had to have surgury and they actually put his hand in a cast for six weeks. Hope your thumb is better. Tom O

[Walleye mikey]

Perchjercker---Brian, didn't they resind order? Because of being taken in the same water it was OK to transport alive across the border.

[T Mac]

>eating them stops freezer burn.
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>rod bender bob


Or at least slows it down a lot. :)

[T Mac]

LOL!
Yup... I have done nearly the same.
:duh:

[perchjerker]

maybe, but I am not aware of it

I kill all of mine when they come aboard anyway unless they are going right back in the water.

So I am not really sure

[Jim Tunney]

I didn't know they passed a law to kill them? Do we or do we not have to kill them. I fish several live fish tournaments and would like to know. Please.
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[perchjerker]

I would hope the tourney officals will know the answer to that question.

In Mich, here is the rules.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/Attention_Anglers_Flyer_203624_7.pdf

Provision 5 addresses it.

[Walleye mikey]

>I would hope the tourney officals will know the answer to
>that question.
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>In Mich, here is the rules.
>
>http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/Attention_Anglers_Flyer_203624_7.pdf
>
>Provision 5 addresses it.

So you can bring them back alive, just can't release them in another body of water (which is VHS free). But they can be realesed later in the same body of water. Thats what I thought.

[perchjerker]

right

they did change this from what it used to be when the law first came out

[fishnuts]

Jim,
You only need to kill them if you are crossing the invisible boarderline. If you catch all your fish on the Michigan side, then you are O.K. If you go to the Canadian side, then you must kill them before crossing. This won't do you any good then in a tournament where you must weigh live fish only. No sense even buying a Canadian license if you are tourney fishing.:badidea: