i can make you an offer on a "guts freezer" that you will not be able to refuse! talk to me! the price will be a mere pittance in what newly formed relationships with your mailman/neighbors/guests will be worth!!!

 

A buddy of mine bags em and takes them down to a local shopping center and throws them in their dumpsters. Does it right after he fillets everything.

 

A buddy of mine bags em and takes them down to a local shopping center and throws them in their dumpsters. Does it right after he fillets everything.

that sounds pretty irresponsible to me. If I was a business owner, that only had his dumpster emptied once a week, I'd be pretty peo'd if people were throwing fish guts in it, bagged or not. Wouldn't it be better to return them to a stream/river etc. where other species could use them instead of the landfill?

 

I always put them in my creek to attract annals for trappin season. So a nearby creek or river would do. Idk if I would put them back in the lake becouse people do tend to get mad bout that.


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"Bass-o-matic" or a blender then in a small area in the yard dig a little hole and pour in the contents. It's that easy. And it also makes for great fertilizer in a tomato garden.

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I used to bury them, or toss them in the backyard by the pain in the but neighbors (he.he...I was a teen then & they gave me crap for working on my cars in the garage all night). Now I do the fish-popsicle thing. only problem is when you forget to take them out.....I have two bags in there right now.

Perhaps find some friends with different trash nites, trade them a bag-o-fish for using their can??

 

May not work for your situation but we throw them in the back yard and and let the vultures take care of the dirty work. All they leave are the skins.

Only problem is now they fly around the house so when I wake up from a nap in the hammock I have to check to see if I still have a pulse.

 

What is a Bass- O - Matic?

 

Build a little fire pit and just burn them?

 

Build a little fire pit and just burn them?

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What is a Bass- O - Matic?

You must be too young for that one. It's from an old skit on Saturday Night Live where Dan Aykroyd would grind up a bass in a blender, then drink it.

 

Build a small coral out of landscape timbers, about 3 foot high, as large or as small as your yard will accomodate. Fill it with lawn clippings starting now and leaves this fall and continue to do so over time. Then just rake back one side at a time, put the guts in and cover back up. Do this forever and you'll have a very, very active compost pile that will find the guts disposed of in short order and you'll have some very nice soil for use around the house. No mess, no stink and you can even offer the nice potting soil to the neighbors if you coral is big enough.

 

sounds like you just need a bigger freezer. thats what we always do is just freeze them and put them out with the trash.

i dont think its legal to put them back into the water, so i wouldnt do that.
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I've always used the local farmers fields with their permisson of course.

 

Build a little fire pit and just burn them?

This works for me.

 

I've always used the local farmers fields with their permisson of course.

And I bet that farmer keeps winning the county fair with huge produce!

 

How about a 55 gallon drum full of water treated with pool cleaner (enzymes)?
If i remember correctly, thats how they make fish hydrosolate for gardeners. I dont know if it covers the stench though... Any input?

 

This is the first year we haven't been at a dock with a fish cleaning station so I've been missing that. The chest freezer has been working well for me though. It would definitely worth buying another one if it were me to avoid that horrid stank. Even a cheap ugly used one on craigslist or something. 90 degrees + dark plastic container = smell that doesn't leave for months. I did that once, will never do it again. No amount of lysol could get rid of the smell.

 

Bleach will get rid of the smell

 

Do you have a friend near with enough land to bury the carcasses ? I drive about a mile, and bury mine in a woods adjacent my mother in law. So far no problems with smell or raccoons digging them up.

 

I know it's illegal to throw remains in Lake erie so I would bet it is the same for other bodies of water. Isn't open burning also illegal in most places?

 

It's a big no no to throw fish guts anywhere expect your yard and the body of water they came from what I've been told. It's a littering fine if caught


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You must be too young for that one. It's from an old skit on Saturday Night Live where Dan Aykroyd would grind up a bass in a blender, then drink it.

Thanks Triton175. I have never heard that. I am 70 years old and have fished Lake Erie for 60 years and Cedar Creek for a couple of years before that. I am not much of a TV watcher being deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other. LOL

 

I put them in the guy's garbage cans that lives three doors down. His cats crap in my flower beds all year, so I figure we're even.

 

I put them in the guy's garbage cans that lives three doors down. His cats crap in my flower beds all year, so I figure we're even.

to make it even better add some ripe worms to the mix!!