cleaning fish on shore and tossing back carcasses?

I almost always clean when I get home.  Bury the guys & such under the trees.  The bucket of water & small debris from sanddabs makes GREAT for the potted fruit trees!

 

I almost always clean when I get home.  Bury the guys & such under the trees.  The bucket of water & small debris from sanddabs makes GREAT for the potted fruit trees!

 

What ????   Since I started doing this, my lemon bush is LOADED and my lime tree finally has limes on it.  I have two oak trees near each other.  One got guts, the other not.  One is almost 2x larger than the other.

How many "guys" have you buried, Bill?   ...I think that's why RG is    It kinda made me  too

I'm not sure you need to leave the skin on if you're filleting on the beach? I don't.

 Hojo?

Bushy

I looked this up the other day for halibut...regs only talked about cleaning/fileting while on board a vessel.

Once on shore you can filet away without worrying about leaving skin on or having filets be a certain size is how I read it...

 

Sincerely,

Jim

How many "guys" have you buried, Bill?   ...I think that's why RG is    It kinda made me  too

Damn .... didn't see that one.   Yeah, I can see it's funny too!  But we don't talk about the "guys" that have been buried

lot of good feedback...
I was trying to bury in my garden but we are open country and the local dogs like to check in at each house and beg a dog bone or say Hi ,which we love...at night the smarter one comes and digs up anything!!!! ...i've covered with big rocks etc...he owns this area and it's his horses and coral near by so he is the king of the country road/block so burying is not an option at this point....

I am gonna leave the skin on to keep the knife moves down while on the beach and protect the fillet from too much handling by the sands...
Take them home and chill the fillets overnight and remove the meat the next day cleanly and then dispose of the skin...the pigs down the street are gonna love em...
thank you for all the feedback
I may do this on the trunk of my beater kayak car -plywood creation on top-to avoid crouching over on my knees in the sand...and to get away from the 20 questions per minute on the beach
now i need a flip down cleaning table bolted with hinges to the trunk 

I looked this up the other day for halibut...regs only talked about cleaning/fileting while on board a vessel.

+1

27.65. FILLETING OF FISH ON VESSELS does not apply if you are filleting fish on shore. See page 33 of the Ocean Sport Fishing Regulations: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=77722&inline=true.

I looked this up the other day for halibut...regs only talked about cleaning/fileting while on board a vessel.

+1

27.65. FILLETING OF FISH ON VESSELS does not apply if you are filleting fish on shore. See page 33 of the Ocean Sport Fishing Regulations: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=77722&inline=true.

Thanks!!!

Yep, the skin thing is for filleting on a boat.

All the carcasses & guts thrown back into the water get recycled. Agreed, just be conscientious of other people around the beach.

Right back into the big blue is best!

But after hearing about others fertilizing the yard I feel like I may have been wasting a resource. Neighbors may not like it but trees and tomatoes would...