10-18-2019, 07:38 PM
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[#0000FF]Actually, in real life I did once fillet about a 3" carp minnow...just to prove it could be done with a sharp blade and a bit of know-how. But just once. That was enough. If you wanna show off for Cookie, that is all on you. Good luck.
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[#0000FF]On the flip side, I have filleted a 300# marlin. That was a lot of work. And while working on southern California party boats...and some commercial fishing...I have filleted hundreds of fish in a day. Even more work. And my hands often looked like hamburger from sharp gill plates, spines and careless knife strokes. Don't miss it at all.[/#0000FF]
[size 3]"I guess I should of clarified - my Bama friend, who espoused the gut and brown sugar cure was using big shad or other large cut bait critters, for big blues. Not minnows." [/size]
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[#0000FF]There are a lot of larger bait fish...like shad, mackerel, bonito, sardines, smelt and others...that can be doctored with assorted preservatives and flavorings to improve their attractiveness to the targeted species. But my subjective opinion is that most fish still respond better to fresh-dead natural bait...but still not as well as live bait. Howsomever, we can't use live bait in Utah so dead is all we got. Morbid.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Actually, in real life I did once fillet about a 3" carp minnow...just to prove it could be done with a sharp blade and a bit of know-how. But just once. That was enough. If you wanna show off for Cookie, that is all on you. Good luck.
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[#0000FF]On the flip side, I have filleted a 300# marlin. That was a lot of work. And while working on southern California party boats...and some commercial fishing...I have filleted hundreds of fish in a day. Even more work. And my hands often looked like hamburger from sharp gill plates, spines and careless knife strokes. Don't miss it at all.[/#0000FF]
[size 3]"I guess I should of clarified - my Bama friend, who espoused the gut and brown sugar cure was using big shad or other large cut bait critters, for big blues. Not minnows." [/size]
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[#0000FF]There are a lot of larger bait fish...like shad, mackerel, bonito, sardines, smelt and others...that can be doctored with assorted preservatives and flavorings to improve their attractiveness to the targeted species. But my subjective opinion is that most fish still respond better to fresh-dead natural bait...but still not as well as live bait. Howsomever, we can't use live bait in Utah so dead is all we got. Morbid.[/#0000FF]
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