Great video on Ikejime (Japanese fish cleaning)

[Memory Maker]

This is a great video covering how and why

https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/6/27...l-fish-ikejime

[DanMarino]

Someone should make a video about how to safely and humanely dispatch a snakehead.

[mchottie]

ironically, the SH facebook group was just talking about Ikejime this morning.

the final word was, not sure how to get through the skull

[Slobber Bob]

Thanks for sharing.

Even just bleeding the fish makes a huge difference. I'll have to try spiking them now for instant death too.

The spinal cord tap seems like it would be the hardest part to accomplish while on the kayak. Plus the fact that it requires a specialized tool you'd have to have handy.

[yakscientist]

It seems like a pretty humane technique, really anything beats the usual slow suffocation on ice. I bring a fish bat with me and give the fish a few hard whacks on the head, usually dispatches them very quickly. Then I'll bleed them, unless they're striper (which i don't think you're allowed to cut up at all while they're in your possession).

[Big Mike]

I guess if I was going to keep a fish for 2 weeks and make sushi from it this would be worth the effort. However I only keep what I can eat that day or the next, and as the taster said, no real difference in taste based on kill method in that case. I don’t see anything in what they do violating Maryland regulations on rockfish. You’re keeping the fish whole, which is the key.
I eat lots of sushi but I won’t eat rockfish sushi. Too many worms and pathogens. If your going to do it freeze the fish for 24 hours to kill the worms.

[Memory Maker]

Thanks for sharing.

Even just bleeding the fish makes a huge difference. I'll have to try spiking them now for instant death too.

The spinal cord tap seems like it would be the hardest part to accomplish while on the kayak. Plus the fact that it requires a specialized tool you'd have to have handy.

It’s not a specialized too ........ the spinal cord tap is just a thin stiff piece of wire you run in the spinal cord

[mepps3]

If I am shore fishing and keeping, then I use a stick to knock the fish out and then store on ice. When kayaking, I don't have a cooler and just use a stringer. Probably puts all the bad stress juices in the meat. But if I am not eating that night, I will soak in water to hopefully alleviate that. Guess I will focus on bleeding the fish too when and if I can.