So someone posted this in this ultra light group I'm in saying they where getting ready for a fish fry

I saw it and was like " near" but checked the comments and saw probably 80% of them being people kinda freaking out because they where frozen whole un processed. No one seemed be be able to explain why it's such a bad thing but they where sure talking about how he needed a fillet knife talk of wasted potential ect. Guy explained that hay he's just gonna thaw them out scale and gut them then cook them again again folks we're loosing it. I have to say I'm pretty confused here. Your not wasting more cooking whole vs filleting, their frozen so it's not like they're going bad...idk . It's how we've always done it never got sick once. Just come home wash them off with the garden hose toss them in a ziplock and in the freezer . So am I missing something or ?

Nothing wrong with freezing fish whole.
They will keep longer in the freezer that way if you want to keep fish that long.

I don't want the guts and bacteria in them when they are thawing out. Just seems like a bad idea. Do the job right from the start. I don't know about the bacteria in fish guts but the bacteria in warm blooded animals start doing bad things before the animal is thawed out enough to process

Yup!

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Nothing wrong with that if you are going to use them for bait. I could easilly fillet any one of them bags of fish in 15 min. Probably do the whole pile in an hour, when they were fresh.

This could fall in line with Marty's post about how soft is our country lol.
Peaple worried obout eating fish that have been frozen whole?
Now want some potentially hazardous fish let's talk sushi!!

I freeze whole fish most of the time. If you glaze them after freezing a couple times they keep much fresher.
A whole fish is less likely to get freezer burn as well.

I butcher them while still a bit frozen. Very easy to clean the guts then too.

I always felt they tasted dirty done that way so I dont do it. May just be me.

I like them filleted and vacuum bagged. Keep quite awhile like that. Never tried frozen whole. Think if I did I would want them alive going in the freezer and better quality bagas.

Don't know. I always cleaned them right away and will continue to do so.

They should be alright. Icefisherman don't always process their fish as soon as they are caught. I've brought home plenty of fish popcicles.

does it make them harder to scale if they've been frozen? or do you scale them first?
I have never been able to control myself long enough to let them freeze. I usually eat them the same day I catch them, haha.
I did switch to scale em ,gut em, head em, fry em a couple years ago.
I never minded filleting them ,but now I prefer whole.

Hey Wolfdog. if you ever get up towards Dubuque Iowa, on the Mississippi, let me know.
every time I see a barge now ,I think ...hmmm, wonder if Wolfdog is on that one?

I always clean and fillet them, mostly to save space.

scale em gut em into freezer camp they go, round here it's a real short stay tho .

This^^^^ is correct!

That is a lazy person that freezes em whole.

Cleaned and put up

only real advantage to cleaning them ahead of time that I can think of is they take up less space in the freezer. room for more goodies

If you are worried about fish not keeping long enough in the freezer when fileted you are not living right. A fish fry is a weekly occurrence in the summertime!

Why are we talking about soured rice (sushi)?