Freezing Fish?

[thetackletrap]

How you guys freezing your fish?

I've been using the vacuum bag system with real good results, but sometimes the tuna seems to get weird. If its not much meat it obviously doesn't get froze. I eat it non stop till its gone, but when you bagging the biggins, then I freeze it. The reason I'm asking is that I had a "bad batch of big eye" It tasted good fresh, but after it was froze it tasted bad, not funnny. I threw it out.

Any ideas here. I was told to freeze in water, freeze in salt water, freeze in milk, all kinds of stuff! What to believe?

[eppefour]

I just use a bag sealer with no vacumm. I need to get a vacumm one this year. I find my tuna keeps best if you get rid of all the black line. Even a little bit of the dark meat seems to make it all get strong in time. I have just finished albacore packed in Sept and it was fine. I think I could do better with a vacumm sealer.
I buy fish from Omaha Steaks. I is relatively expensive. But they trim the fish to all meat with no fat , bloodline, or dark meat. I ate a piece of Mahi last week that I bought in april. It was fine with no fishy taste. :ernaehrun

[MakoMike]

Vaccum bagging is the way to go. I use to freeze my fish in a block of ice in an old mike carton, it worked pretty well, but not as well as the vacuum bagger. I suspect there wa some dark meat left on that big eye. But bigeye and bluefin doesn't frreze all that well, due to the high fat content.

[thetackletrap]

Yeh I cut all the dark meat out too, and never have an issue when vacuuming the fish. Its that darn big eye and bluefin like mako mike said. The white meats like bass and mahi stay great, but it never lasts more than a month anyway. I thought maybe my trouble wtih the big eye was it was a tournament fish. We did not bleed it and it hung for a little bit for pictures, but it tasted good when fresh.

[Lil' Tunny]

TT you don't have to freeze any bigeye or bluefin. There's plenty of people that will take some while it's still fresh

[eppefour]

What vacumm sealer do you use

[thetackletrap]

What vacumm sealer do you use

Not exactly sure, but I bought it at Cabelas some years back. It's the plastic model, not the stainless commercialy jobby. It has worked real well for me so far, I did have an isssue one time when the bags would not seal. I actually sent them back to Cabelas. I guess it was a bad batch or something.

[Lil' Tunny]

It's also a good idea to put the fish in bags, put bags in freezer for a little while so any liquid in the bag freezes but not the fish, then vacuum and seal. This will keep any juices from getting sucked up into the pump and greatly extend the life of your vacuum sealer.
I got a Foodsaver #??? for christmas last year, still works great. All fish goes into a chest freezer, tastes perfect after 3-4 months.

[Parker21]

You guys don't need those fancy vaacum sealers.(i'm spelling it this way because everyone here spells it diffrent) I was surfing yesterday and thought I saw prefrozen fish out there.

[MakoMike]

Yeah,
At this time of year you can just let them lay on the deck for a little bit