I have a Cabelas portable table and it work great, but at home I found a Stainless steel sink table combo, 10$ at yard sale, and use them all the time both have there place.

 

I have one of the generic fish cleaning tables. It works fine but could use some improvements/add ons. Im just to lazy to do the extra work so I deal with it.

 

Workbench is easy enough. Only takes a couple minutes to fillet a fish.


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If I did one, it would have overhead sprayer, waterproof walls, drain in floor, sink, and flat work surface.

All of this needs to be in covered area.

Otherwise, I'll stick to gutting them on the boat, and quick fillet at home followed by bleach spray bottle cleaning.

 

Otherwise, I'll stick to gutting them on the boat, and quick fillet at home followed by bleach spray bottle cleaning.

No wonder you don't care for salmon, bleaching them has gotta be a little harsh on the flavor....

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There are a few nice ones on this thread..... getting ready to build a proper one at my house this year. http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=763866

 

I have one of the generic folding tables that my wife bought for me from fisherman's. It works fine. Could be better but it does the job it was intended to do. Nice part is the height of the table is good so you aren't leaning over much. I also have a stainless table with built in sink. I transfer the filleted fish from fillet table to stainless to gently wash off as much slime as I can with none chlorinated bottled water. Pat dry and prep for freezer if thats the goal for the day.

 

I don’t gut my fish when I fillet, unless it’s a hen obviously, so creating a station to fillet 2 sides of a salmon/steelhead is pointless to me. Backyard wooden deck works fine for me. Kneel on second step and fillet fish on deck. Viola..... I would rather much create a clam cleaning station. Out in garage, drain tied into house drain, garbage disposal, hot/cold water, the whole 9 yards

 

I think it really depends on your plans with it. If you are only using it for Salmon no point, If you are using it for salmon, crab, clams, rock fish, halibut, and tunas and you are processing hundreds or possibly thousands of pounds an nice sink with a dedicated sealer is really nice to have.

 

The best thing, to me, about the generic white fold up table with the little sink is the height. I don't use the sink at all....just have garden hose nearby for a rinse off of the table (not the filet....water is the enemy of salmon filet). Having the table "out of level" away from the sink and toward the garden, is what I do. Cheap and always ready.

 

if it is the one or two fish days, I use my tailgate with a piece of plywood (perfect height). to process 10 - 20 in a day, I have a stainless countertop with sink. big enough to get 4 guys in at a time. placing a towel or door mat works great to hold the fish in place.

 

How do you guys keep the buzzing flies away from the crud, when rinsing off the table afterwards and blood and gut pieces get hosed off into your ground/garden/floor?

 

I've been needing one for awhile and finally put this together last weekend. Bought the table from Amazon and built the stand for it to make it a little nicer. Can still take the table off and use the metal legs.

 

At home home, I built a simple wooden one out of scrap lumber much like TRDB's above, but with a plain plywood surface instead of the molded plastic. Pluses are it was dirt cheap, it's solid enough i'm sure 2 of us could stand on it, and I can leave it outside with little or no concern. Minuses are it takes up a fixed amount of space, so if I want it out of the way I have to move it where it'll end up in the way of something else later, and it's quite heavy so moving it each time is a bit of a nuisance. Since I don't use it all that often specifically for fish, it doubles as my BBQ prep station on the deck (when doing fish I have a large plastic cutting board I throw on top, so I don't need to worry about cleaning blood/slime off the wood afterwards).

My brother has one of the folding ones from Cabelas (or similar) w/ the little dinky sink which we've used quite a bit and like, so when we got our coast place he wanted to get us one as a housewarming gift, only he couldn't find one in stock at the time so he got us one of the Rapala folding versions instead. I/we've ended using that sucker a lot (fish, crabs, and clams), and I'd absolutely get one again. It's got a little drip channel running around the edges and a waste port where you can hang a bucket underneath, it's large/tall enough for several people to work around comfortably if you want to get an assembly line going, and best of all it's portable so we've taken it camping numerous times as well. I thought $100 seemed a bit much at first cuz it's so basic, but we've had it for years and it's pretty much bulletproof.

I realize the OP said at-home, but even if you don't plan to take it anywhere, it folds up so you can store it flat/upright out of the way, and it's easy to move around if you need to for whatever reason. I guess if you have enough room to dedicate a full-time space for a plumbed station that's ideal, but in my case I can deploy it on the driveway and then simply hose everything off and stow it back in the garage when I'm done. Even if I had a Cadillac permanent home station, I'd still recommend having one of these ready to toss in the truck for your next group shellfishpalooza:

 

I installed a 3 bin stainless sink in my garage. I then bought a custom piece of plastic cutting board to fit inside the lip of the sink for cutting fish. Whether it's cleaning fish, processing deer and elk or making homebrew, the set up has worked fantastically. If you have the space for it, I highly recommend it.

 

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I don't process that many fish, so I bought one of the folding fish cleaning tables at Cabela's when it was on sale a few years ago. It replaced the scrap lumber and plywood one I used previously. I like it, and it folds up and stores out of the way.

 

I built an 6' long bench out of PT 2x4 and plywood. It has a double basin stainless kitchen sink that I picked up for $5 at a garage sale. There is a plastic cutting board for the other side but I rarely bother to use it. The sink has a hose fitting attached and I was given a small water heater to connect to it in the shop but have yet to do so. Works great for fish and birds.

 

here ya go

 

I put a piece of plywood down on the non mobile version.

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I just like a folding table or cooler lid. Easy to clean up and fold away. I have a stainless steel sink and counter I plan to set up some day but am in no hurry.

 

Two boards, two sawhorses, a 5 gallon gut bucket, garden hose with sprayer, and a sharp knife. The sprayer is just to clean the boards, not the fish.
I try not to over think these things.

 

Another fan of the SIMPLE folding portable table from Costco....

 

Nice straw hat Doc.

 

Mine is a cheap cleaning board, the old man got at Sportco. Not big enough for salmon or for sturgeon, when we could keep them. But I manage to make it work. It’s about 25 years old, and I haven’t used it since last September, so she’s a little green. I need to catch a fish, so I have a reason to clean it.

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Anglers West just posted a video on this new cleaning station

https://youtu.be/alyYYZCSNzs


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