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After browsing a number of handy online tutorials, we've come to the conclusion that "cleaning fish" has to be one of the biggest euphemisms ever invented. Does your idea of cleaning involve disembowelment, dismemberment, and buckets of gore? If so, read on... The helpful folks at Learn2.Com offer a step-by-step tutorial that's not afraid to get explicit. After washing your fish in cool water and removing the pectoral fins, you're instructed to: 1. Using the sharp knife, drive the blade point into the vent (small anal opening near the tail, where the body begins to widen). Cut right through the belly all the way to the gills. 2.Remove the guts from the cavity. That's the bulk of the operation. Afterwards, remove
the head, tail, and dorsal fin. But don't just take Learn2.Com's word -- Grover Prowse of Get Lost Magazine offers actual photographs with his how-to. And the ever-popular Field and Stream Magazine also has a few words on the subject. All of these highly qualified sources recommend newspaper -- lots of newspaper. Good luck.
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