Thanks for the suggestions. H&G butterfly, skin on, tail on, pin in.
So it sounds like either salt or lye. What does the lye do? Kill
everything?Remove moisture? Clean your pipes?!?!

As far as Thomas' idea reagarding Leaks.............. I think green
onions or scallions wojld work also.

In Cod We Trust

i bet it would be ok, drying the fish and eating them. i wouldn't use
the salt or lye because i don't like salty food or alkaline tastes, but
if you didn't think drying was enough then vinegar might be ok, i like
acid tastes more and they are easier to cook with in my opinion. but
then i'm from the mountains and i really like pickled beat eggs too.
haha. but i would just dry the fish, myself, and not put them in
anything else. we in the states act like this is some forgotten magic
and buy special dehydrators even to make venison jerky, but it's pretty
low tech and simple to do that kind of thing. here are problems i
imagine in my own mind ... sea birds near land swooping down to take
the fish from your rigging ... and having to take all those fish out of
the rigging when a squall comes up. but other than that, seems like a
great idea to me! the sea birds especially though i bet a little
group of birds could empty your rigging before you even had a chance to
figure out what was going on! lol

how do you catch them to begin with, drag a net in your wake ?

if it was some big fish you got lucky enough to catch i would think it
would have to be cut pretty thin to dry in any reasonable amount of
time.