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To freeze fish filets, I use a method which I'm pretty sure I picked up here - put them in a ziplock bag and add enough water that little or no fish meat is exposed to air inside the bag, then stick them in the deep freeze and leave them there until ready to thaw and cook.. I usually freeze about every other batch of fish I catch during the warm months, then fix them during the Winter. (I don't ice fish. We might have ice thick enough here for ice fishing every third or fourth year, and when we do I'm already cold from spending 2-3 hours a day taking care of cows and horses.)

Last Winter I missed one package of frozen filets, which turned up earlier this month when I moved stuff around in the freezer to make room for half a steer. Last night I cooked that batch of bluegill filets, from August 2023, and they were perfect. That's the longest I've kept any fish frozen with this method, and it worked great.