Yup. A nice day at the berry farm. Going to have a peaceful afternoon picking blueberries, currants, strawberries, raspberries and fish cleaning.

... wait... What?

Tom cleans fish for the winter

yeah, don't clean fish in the water fountain. ;) Imagine why this sign had to be installed.

A catch of trout about to be cleaned.

These rainbows show characteristic white staining from being on ice. Where the ice touches the scales, the skin loses its color and turns pure white or silver. Rainbows usually have an olive colored back, a white belly, silver sides, and a pink stripe along the lateral line. Small black spots cover most of the fish.

Fish are usually catch-and-release, but these smaller rainbows are a delicate species and a deep hook set usually causes the fish to bleed out before it can be returned to the water. Circle hooks lower the rate of deep hook sets. Rainbows have a large tongue and a small gullet, which causes J-hooks to lodge into the tongue. The heart and gill arteries are located just underneath, leading to low survival rates on any swallowed hook.

At the D'Iberville Marina fish cleaning table, this catch of 90 fine sand sea trout a.k.a. "white trout" was made by Carl Coleman of Columbus, TX and his 8-year-old son Trey while fishing with popping corks in the Mississippi Sound aboard TEAM BRODIE CHARTERS. Photo by Capt. Robert L. Brodie

We catch the fish and Grandpa cleans them.

Portland Harbour cleaning tables. Stingrays hang about for a feed on most days. Worth a look. Wheat and general grain handling silos on skyline.

Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.

Once you get over the ick factor, cleaning a fish can be kind of cool. And, eventually, tasty.

PENTAX K-7 + SIGMA 30mm F1.4 EX DC

Neighbors donated a fish freshly caught from the lake. Here, James cleans it just as Uncle Doug taught.

Cod Head at fish cleaning table. Bud,Norway.

Mom will always be a Minnesota farm girl at heart