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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3222554" data-attributes="member: 5412">I'm a long time member of Crappie. com as well as another member or two on this forum.Now, for the bleeding the fish. Crappie/walleye/saugers/saugeye don't require it. When I catch large catfish, I've nipped a couple of gills or cut the tail for them to bleed out.Same with Hybrid stripers, Stripers.  Fished the discharge at sooner lake as an employee almost every day while working there and ate a lot of them. Bleeding them out makes a difference in cleaning them. Not a lot of blood and I think it makes them taste better.All of the stripers/sand bass/ Saugeye require removing the red meat on the skin and along the lateral line of the fish. If not, it will taste fishy and that is what puts a lot of people off eating fish.I even remove that red lateral line on salmon. Makes it much more mild.</blockquote>