Might have to defrost them (in bags of four fillets), smoke em and turn into fish pie instead of using for bait.
1st
bag on the bait board will get used.. 2nd bag peel a couple fillets off
before fully defrost and put back in the bait/ burly chilly bin.
I have a smaller chilly bin, enough for 5 2L milk bottles of frozen home made burly (see below) and bags of bait lay on top.
For
a few yrs, east coast fishing I didnt salt. I just scaled and cut into
bait strips, Zip lock, remove air in a bucket of water.
Not too many per bag as took longer to thaw on the bait board.
Anything left over went to the burley. If unsalted , re freeze , just turn to one hit mushy wonders
.
Like
Kito, the frames and heads... Chopper/ machete thru the head couple
times, remove tail and fins by gills (these block the mulcher, and if
get thru that, mess up the burly net.
. chop the spine in a few
places,fold up and put in bags in the bait freezer. Let over bait,
muscles, few muscle shells, scallop skirts
, even a lot of the scales
.
As the burly goes down, the bags of frames fills up the freezer.
Then
its semi defrost the bags over night, thru the mulcher next day... Here
is why the heads get a 2 or 3 good deep slices in the heads.. they
break up far easier in the mulcher.
Crap 2 1/2 job from coffee cup to
end of long hot shower).. smelly but the worst is packing the semi
frozen burly into the 2L milk containers ( note the bottom pic with the neck cut off the bottle) Fingers get real cold.. have
electric jug and bucket water close by.
Surprising the clean down is very easy and quick. Setup on slight slope.. plastic/ tarp down..bottom end has 'catchment' V with couple bits timber.
I have been putting off the next batch, freezer full, down to the last 2 containers...Someone want to come help for couple hrs?