Fish cleaning on board??

[bigeasy1]

Thanks for the quick responses guys.

Gillie I like the blood in your pictures,and my boat isn't as clean as it looks in the picture.The deck is filthy,I gave up trying to keep it looking like new.I don't mind the blood,it's the little remnants of the fish,that somehow escape unseen and end up in the scuppers.
Thanks for the link that's a sweet setup he made I think i may adapt it to my situation.

Fellowship, I looked into the Magma stuff and it's nice,but I need to make something to fit my rig.I'm sure those lake fish do!look forward to your trips ha ha.

Chuck,On the NY great lakes waters(lake Ontario)we are allowed to clean salmon and steelhead and other salmonids, but have to leave the skin on so they can be identified.You're not allowed to clean them onshore in the area I fish unless you go to a cleaning station.The cleaning stations are very nice with all stainless tables and cutting boards and also with a big grinder that grinds up the carcasses and sends the grindings into an underground tank.
The problem is they are always crowded and the waits are usually long.

Abl,I like the sounds of your setup,maybe a mix of a few ideas like yours and others will work good for me.

Since the biggest mess of cleaning a fish is gutting it, I opt to gut some bigger fish while still in the water. No law against that anywhere. Made the mistake of gutting a 60 pound black drum one trip - right on the floor of the boat. I'll never do that again! I add this picture to show you something. While in Sitka, Alaska, I fished for salmon. This picture shows a trough that is affixed to the railing on the boat. On the way back in, after deep trolling (400 feet of water) for king salmon, the mate would put a salmon in this trough upside down. He then gutted the fish and all the mess and blood stuff went overboard rather than into the boat. Note the back piece that is cut out for the fish's tail. I know this is for salmon, but something like it could be done for other fish. A rock would fit in there nicely! Obviously the fish had been dispatched with a club before being laid in the trough. I should have taken a picture of the fish in the trough but I guess I didn't. I'm still looking - if I find one I'll post it.