Cleaning Station

I have looked at several pictures of the nice cleaning station avaliable at the pier and I have 2 questions. Do you have AC outlets for a electric fillet
knife? And where do the heads, guts ect. go? Just trying to picture it, does it go into the water as chum?

Yes they do currently have AC outlets, hopefully they even still work after being sprayed so many times. Yep the remains are placed back into the water to let nature do its thing, as long as your out at the T your OK so says the state of Alabama. Be sure to pop the eyes and airbladder so they sink, and it helps keep them from washing up.

I bet the crabs and other scavengers appreciate it when the fish are biteing.LOL I doubt anything lasts long enough to wash up. But when I use it I will
be sure to puncture the air bladder and eyes. Thanks for the good info.

Great question, and answer :headbang:
The condition of the tables was much better (Friday) than previously reported (complained about).
Anyway, the park cleaning crew left a cut bleach bottle to be used as a scooper for guts and scales in the drain tray and it was being washed down intermittently throughout the day.

Blaine did tell me though, he'd been called out to pick up a few redfish carcasses that had drifted ashore this week :-[
And there were several 'floaters' around the mid octi Friday. ::)

Dead fish bloat and float very quickly in this +85 degree water, and all that decay and bacteria just makes the low disolved oxygen situation in the water around the pier even worse.
Nature has a way of taking care of that though ;-)

The outlet over the south table worked last week when I tried an electric knife. I quickly discovered that it wasn't made to clean redfish and I went back to the old tried and true knife that I got for five bucks at J&M. It does a number on reds.

Thanks for noticing the scoop. It's from one of my old photo chemical jugs and works pretty well. I've been putting my redfish carcasses in the garbage cans---it actually says in the small print on the sign that we should put our refuse in the containers. Makes the parking lot an unforgettable experience when the wind is right and the garbage truck dumps the containers---nearly brought me to my knees the other day.

Haywire,fish go over the side not in the trash.I know what that sign above the cleaning station says but it is wrong.Working on getting that part covered up.

Those tables should have been designed with like a 6"-8" straight dropped drain at the end. Also a saltwater circulating pump installed on the drain. It wouldn't take much to add them to the tables and it would eliminate some of the problems.

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Haywire,fish go over the side not in the trash.I know what that sign above the cleaning station says but it is wrong.Working on getting that part covered up.
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Duct Tape can fix that fer ya dawg ;-) LOL!

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Those tables should have been designed with like a 6"-8" straight dropped drain at the end. Also a saltwater circulating pump installed on the drain. It wouldn't take much to add them to the tables and it would eliminate some of the problems.
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I agree with the improvement to the cleaning table, and an easily removable grate over the drain would keep from accidentally dropping stuff down the drain until you got ready to wash down the gurry.

Cleaning station could have been designed better ,but hey ,I 'm just thrilled that there is a fairly decent cleaning table on the pier !

[quote author=Haywire link=topic=1769.msg16630#msg16630 date=1344091081]
[size=10pt]I've been putting my redfish carcasses in the garbage cans---it actually says in the small print on the sign that we should put our refuse in the containers.[/size] Makes the parking lot an unforgettable experience when the wind is right and the garbage truck dumps the containers---nearly brought me to my knees the other day.
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[size=12pt][font=comic sans ms]Holy Crap, after all we went through to get that regulation changed? No wonder the Mid platform stinks so bad.
Come on Dawg, get that sign removed, PLEASE!

---And all this time I thought I was being a fine, upstanding, law-abiding citizen by not following my natural instincts to toss the carcasses overboard. I've always thrown over mackerel carcasses because they sink and stay sunk.

I was fishing near the cleaning station the other day when one of the pier workers was pulling bull red carcasses out of the trash can and dropping them over the side. He told me that the sign said to put them in the cans but needed to be updated to remove that. He said most of the people know to drop them over the side.

Maybe some stickers like this (on the cans) might help :-\

[img width=300 height=302]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/pierpounder/Misc/PierViews/GS/NoFishInCan.jpg[/img]

It seems the old pier had signs that read something like "THROW DEAD FISH AND BAIT OVERBOARD"

:nyd:

Duct tape has many uses, so why don't they just tape over the part about putting carcusses in the trash can??!!!!!! :o Sorry, just noticed that #'r had the same idea. +1

+1

Seems like it should be a simple fix.

[size=12pt][font=comic sans ms]While I was out yesterday I looked at the sign and the trash can thing is small, but evidently some folks do read the signs on the pier.
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I suggested to the young man emptying the cans that a little strategically placed tape would make their job a little easier and would make the Mid platform a little less odoriferous.
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