Iki Jime

[Luvit]

Last time @Luke Landrunner and I went to 1770, Luke made up a Iki Jime spike from an old screw driver to quickly and humanly depatch the fish.

It worked a treat and so I made one from an old trampoline spring puller.

I did a quick search and found these brochures that help identifiy where to spike. The scientist did this by X-raying the fish to locate the brain.

I'm most interested in the offshore species so I'm going to print them out and cut them up so I can fit all the fish on 1 page then laminated and keep it in the boat.

ikijime_brch_offshore.pdf

ikijime_brch_freshwater.pdf

ikijime_brch_estuary.pdf

 

ikijime_brch_offshore.pdf

[Luke Landrunner]

Ikijime.com is a great source of information for all fish types. 

ikigun.com sells a gun and strap in board combo for those that want an easy and human way to dispatch their catch and preserve quality.

As @Luvit's pictures show a home made spike is an easy method. 

[Drop Bear]

That is cool. My grandfather showed me how to put a knife through the spine of fish but I only recently realised that this is probably paralyzing the fish not killing it. I will study up on the iki. Thanks for the info. Great topic.