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Where do you clean your catch?
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05/21/16 10:07 PM
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Gonzz
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I usually clean the fish in my kitchen and put the guts in Walmart bags doubled and put in trash can. Looking for a better disposal method. The Walmart bags are real thin. I hear some people bury it in the garden also. Thanks for any ideas.
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11616832
05/21/16 11:11 PM
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chickenman
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Outside on the tailgate usually. Freeze the guts and drop it in the trash can on trash day.
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: chickenman]
#11616878
05/21/16 11:40 PM
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shut-up-and-fish
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Outside on the tailgate usually. Freeze the guts and drop it in the trash can on trash day. Plus one on freezing the guts and toss them in the trash can on trash day.... I have a sinks and counter in the garage for cleaning fish...
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11616929
05/21/16 11:58 PM
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Jacob
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Ironing board. Only way to go!
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617059
05/22/16 01:10 AM
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Slewfoot
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At the lake or I give em to Clay!! I don't like cleaning fish at the house.
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617196
05/22/16 02:14 AM
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Pintail711
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This is the only place I've heard of people cleaning fish inside their home... I've got a stainless table to clean fish on... 2 saw horses and a sheet of stainless works good. I dump the guts in the woods or bury them in the garden.
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Re: Where d you clean your catch?
[Re: Jacob]
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05/22/16 03:06 AM
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Grainraiser
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Ironing board. Only way to go! Yep the best fishing cleaning table ever.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617312
05/22/16 03:12 AM
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PKfishin
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I clean them on a cooler on my patio. The plants where the blood and scales get washed into get huge. I bury the fish either in the garden or in my compost pile when the garden gets going.
John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617346
05/22/16 03:26 AM
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Thump My Jig
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Right here. [img:center]http:// [/img]
Last edited by Thump My Jig; 05/22/16 03:39 AM.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617352
05/22/16 03:29 AM
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Sigav8r
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I've always cleaned on a table outside the garage and double bagged them. I've also dumped the guts in one of our community ponds to feed the catfish but don't do that as much as people unfamiliar might think I'm dumping garbage or worse. So I may start trying the freeze and toss method if I get out to fish anytime soon!
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617374
05/22/16 03:38 AM
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Fooshman
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Clean them in the kitchen. Put remains in bags in the freezer and wait until trash day to throw out. It's always fun when there is no room. Hunting season is the best. lol
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617468
05/22/16 04:23 AM
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bush hog
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If I'm at the state park then I'll clean them at their cleaning station. If not, I do it right here at the house and carry the guts to the back of the pasture to feed the buzzards.
To whom much is given, much is required.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617491
05/22/16 04:48 AM
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Siberman
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Clean everything at home . I keep post-hole diggers handy to bury the remains in the flower / veggie gardens ( give my dogs the caviar and livers ) .
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617594
05/22/16 11:03 AM
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Gamblinman
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Ironing board. Freeze the remains.
Gman
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617609
05/22/16 11:37 AM
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papamark
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11617819
05/22/16 02:12 PM
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Txmedic033
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Fish cleaning station or on my tailgate. I have a large piece of counter top that stays in the back of my truck to be used as a cutting board. I have a dumpster around the corner that I have permission to dump remains in when I clean them at the house. I used to clean them on my bait board on the boat until I found out that was illegal. They must be cleaned on the bank.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11618269
05/22/16 06:49 PM
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OleMissPharmacy
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The girlfriend's kitchen sink. No sense in getting my kitchen/house all dirty and smelly.
Hotty Toddy!
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11618374
05/22/16 07:50 PM
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Chambers Creek
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I clean fish on tail gate. I save dog food sacks and freeze to put out on trash day.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Chambers Creek]
#11618874
05/23/16 12:28 AM
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TCK73
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If I'm fishing my local lakes, I clean them at home, throw the heads in a bucket and either dump it in the pasture or till it into the garden. If I'm at a lake away from home, or not going home that day, I clean them at the lake after I pull my boat out. The lakes I fish away from home have cleaning stations and the heads just get thrown into the water off the dock.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11619357
05/23/16 04:16 AM
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Coach Hark
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In my garage on two coolers and pice of plywood 2x4 feet and throw the, guts in one of the (lakes) or ponds by my house.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11619365
05/23/16 04:32 AM
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Anchorman
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I use a camp table with my XL cutting board. I put a trash can in a 5 gal bucket and fill another 5 gal bucket about half full with ice water. Guts go in the bag trimmed fillets go in the ice water. Then I rinse them one more time before freezing them in water.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11619419
05/23/16 09:50 AM
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marschall
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At our slip. Wife bought me a portable cleaning station fro X Mas last year that has the sink and water hook up built in to it. Since our slip has water and electric I also use a electric fillet knife. Throw the remains off the slip for catfish. Bag them up and take them straight to the freezer.
May your wiener schnitzel always stay above your lederhosein.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11620780
05/23/16 09:08 PM
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bogey♂
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The last picture looks kinda like the slips out at Lavon. I cut a 2x8 to fit in the railings and it slips in and out and with a quick wash, it goes back in the boat. It is an easy/cheap solution. I cut the fish on the dock almost every time.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11621515
05/24/16 01:58 AM
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Jig Man
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Gotta neighbor that cleans um on the halves...
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Jig Man]
#11621956
05/24/16 11:17 AM
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Gamblinman
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Gotta neighbor that cleans um on the halves... Yes. cooked on the grill, they are excellent this way. Meat falls right off the skin after being cooked. Gman
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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#11622482
05/24/16 03:15 PM
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Phat Yak
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I use a folding table I build based on a youtube video I found. The top is cutting board material. It works great. Here is the original youtube video that explains how to make it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtdaEFsvyQg
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11622697
05/24/16 04:47 PM
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G Love
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Sometimes at the lake/river, sometimes at home. I'm going to build a portable fish cleaning station somehow. The main thing in my eyes, is not having to bend over the whole time that you're cleaning fish. That sucks.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11622712
05/24/16 04:54 PM
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fridays86
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Best Fertilizer money can by, feed the cats, then feed the garden.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11622856
05/24/16 05:42 PM
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karpbuster
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I have a table setup for outside, but now I have a deep sink in the garage, bucket with bag for guts. Freeze them and throw them away as others have said. If I take my fish inside to clean my wife may gut me.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11622901
05/24/16 05:59 PM
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Stump jumper
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Clean them in my driveway and dump remains in pasture behind house or in creek on the way out of the neighborhood. Creeks runs through a pasture to a big pond. Mudbugs take care of remains over night. Buzzards and coyotes clean up the ones in the pasture.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11626242
05/25/16 09:17 PM
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stewage
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I clean them in my kitchen. Sure is nice to get out of the heat.
Last summer, I made the mistake of dumping a limit of sandbass carcasses in my trash cans the day after trash day. Talk about stink. Since then, freezing the remains until trash day is a must.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11626880
05/26/16 01:55 AM
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gotta fish
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Fish cleaning table at home freeze and then out on trash day!
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11627388
05/26/16 12:02 PM
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WCLBASS
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I have a 18" x24" piece of red wood that I lay on the garage work bench(near the end),I have 2 nails driven in the end of the work bench that I stretch plastic bags over,and just rake the guts into them,when finished I just pull the sack off the nails,tie and freeze till trash day,wash board,knife and 5gal bucket with hose in the yard.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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#11627797
05/26/16 03:23 PM
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Po Boy
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freeze waste if my wife ain't looking.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
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05/26/16 04:47 PM
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angus56
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When I lived in town I'd take them to the creek at the golf course and feed the turtles. Now that I live out of town I have tow ponds on my place and still feed the turtles.
When in town and people would see me dumping a 5 gal bucket of stuff in the creek I got some looks and was approached by a few concerned. Once I explained what I was doing all was good.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
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05/27/16 02:45 AM
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HV Lurenut
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Back in the 80'S, I would clean at my apartment and then put the guts in a paper bag and deposit in the trash can at the front door of the 7/11 on the corner. They had a really rude staff. Probable shouldn't have gone to their level. Now, I clean on the truck tailgate and return the carcasses to the lake. Clean a lot of cats at times and end up with a lot of mass to dispose of.
Preserving Texas fishing heritage one lure at a time.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11629624
05/27/16 05:04 AM
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MrRoachie
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I never know where I will be cleaning.
Put some brown paper bags inside 4-6 plastic bags and you won't have rips or punctures. Paper bags hold the plastic open also.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11629637
05/27/16 05:27 AM
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johnnlucky
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My wife just looked at this post. She said keep getting rid of them where you have been. I clean fish at home an then double plastic bag them and go a gas station and get some gas and throw them out.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11635008
05/30/16 01:40 PM
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Derek Stansell
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Cleaning table next to garage
Derek Stansell
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: Gonzz]
#11635752
05/30/16 09:43 PM
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Kingcarl
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Depends on how my shop guy has been treating me. If I have to stay late to close the shop on Friday, he gets to smell the rotting fish in the dumpster the whole next week.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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06/02/16 02:08 PM
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TX0303
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I like the ironing board idea. Have an old one I was about to haul to Goodwill, think I'll convert it. Currently using a cutting board on a wooden patio table.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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06/02/16 05:22 PM
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spazm09
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I just set a board accross my cooler that the fish are in. Throw the remains in a trash bag for the freezer or bury them
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
[Re: TX0303]
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06/02/16 08:50 PM
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Gamblinman
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I like the ironing board idea. Have an old one I was about to haul to Goodwill, think I'll convert it. Currently using a cutting board on a wooden patio table. I like it because you can adjust the height. If my back is bothering me, I can lower it, sit down, and filet away!
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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06/04/16 02:12 PM
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snake oil
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I clean them at the sink on our boat dock...........
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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#11648029
06/05/16 07:20 AM
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bigcheessee
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Bucket at the end and straight in the garden.
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Re: Where do you clean your catch?
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#11648167
06/05/16 01:20 PM
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I clean them right here. Then take the guts and throw them in the backyard and watch the family of foxes have a snack!
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