So, killing a fish to eat it....

[Jeremy Ray Green]

The best way to preserve your meat if you intend to eat your catches.

Is to cut the head off.

As mentioned above pulling back on the head to break the neck is a great way to do this without a knife, I can do this on rainbows upto 5 pounds.

For preserving the meat for its bet taste you will want to stop the flow of blood to the heart as fast as possible.
when a fish becomes stressed it releases acids into it's body through the blood.

which can create the meat to have an off taste.


Whenever keeping Meat I always try to stop the heart and bleed the fish as soon as possible.