What is the most "humane and painless" way to kill a fish?

[flyboy1]

I dont believe in suffocating a fish and gutting it alive... I have always taken a butcher knife and gave a quick swift chop behind the head severing the spine. So with that said...

What is the most humane and painless way to kill a fish that you plan on keeping to eat, have to kill because it is badly injured or has to be killed because its a nuisance fish as required by state laws?

[Jigman13]

Being as I bleed all my fish for the table, I have a tendency the sever the throat latch. They fade out pretty quickly that way and you end up with some nice, white fillets.

[Lard Almighty]

When I keep trout for the table, I snap their necks. Instant death, and it breaks the main artery and bleeds the fish out. For larger fish or panfish, I usually apply a rock to the cranium, which dispatches them just as quickly.

[lunkertaker]

Cut the main artery/vein just past the gills on the underside...they bleed out within minutes...do it every time blackfishing...have never done it on freshwater fish as I never keep them here in NJ...too much pressure and enjoy the fishery as it is...Stocked trout I usually release, a personal thing as we think they taste too much like bluefish? Just IMO, so keep what ya like:p

[jmurr711]

lethal injection

[dboyd101]

i prefer the concrete slab boat ramp approach.

[SaltLife1980]

Rock smash to the head!!

Instant TKO

[dogfish246]

Numb them in ice water... then do what you think is humane

[Blind Archer]

I tell them of the great skill it took to catch them and tales of my great fishing prowess. It bores them to death, almost instantly. They usually die laughing .

[broken bobber]

i prefer the concrete slab boat ramp approach.

hahahaha.... excellent...agreed :D

[Michael82929]

I was thinking the same thing... until someone responded with that exact quote...

Thats what I love about this site.. a thread like this can make me laugh out loud.

[Skunk City]

You guys crack me up lol. Like Michael said above me, I'm sitting here at my desk laughing as I read some of these responses.

[dboyd101]

HULK SMASH!!!

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[PocketFisherman]

We're concerned about how we kill them but think it's humane to pull on a string that impales a sharp pointy thing into their head (or other places) and drag them out of the water.