Black Veins in Fish Flesh

[CremeDeLaCreme]

It's not parasites!

keep your catch cold in an esky with ICE.

Alternatively, get a keeper net and keep them alive in the water and just prey the seals don't find them.

Cold esky is preferable with ice or an ice slurry with salt water as mentioned.

[2smokinbarrels]

Cheers guys - very interesting to learn about how people care for their catches (something I am still learning properly).

I was fairly mobile on Saturday, walking about flicking soft plastics, so had not taken an esky with me. Not sure how you get round this problem when you want to be able to keep moving... (I pretty much had to pack up and leave when I caught a keeper)

Thanks again

Esky on wheels. :D

[re-tyred]

We just arrived home from a short days fishing in Lakes Tyres. 3 medium dusky flats. I took a closer look. they had some black veins in them but hard to see. They were kept alive in a keeper net, then killed bled and gutted on board. Put them striaght on ice after washing them. Just ate them, bloody nice feed, needed a few more though.

[fishingvic]

I took a good look while I was slowly filleting a flathead tonight.

I think it is the underside of the skin where the knife separates it from the flesh.

So it's definitely not parasites!

Pretty sure it's just some sort of residue left over from the skin.

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