Susquehanna River (2/4/10)

[DOGFISH]

Don't get used to it. I am slipping. Just getting too soft in my older age.

[chimo]

Video #1 I have done for bullhead but I think either method in video #2 would take forever.... To much messing around. Here is my favorite method http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?...sh+div-1r-1-HM Pretty much one single motion I have been so used to filleting panfish that I think its strange when anybody cleans them any other way. Hate bones getting in the way of eating tasty fish

[moc]

Unfortunately, I could not pull up the link.

[chimo]

Hmmmm lets try this again... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-YL...eature=related

[moc]

That link worked.... Thanks.

[MetroMan]

On my last charter trip, the mate did a whole bunch of croaker like that. It was really efficient for him being handy with the knife. I did the same on some WP shortly thereafter. It worked great. I just gotta catch fish big enough to make it worth while!

[mmanolis2001]

I have been wanting to try this method. Looks like its a winner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTlF...eature=related

[mdfisherkid]

MM
That way is much tougher than the video portrays.....and it leaves the bones in. So you would have to bake the meat so it would fall off the bones easier or pick around the bones. Does not produce those nice filets in the other video.....learned this on sunday during the superbowl. (Which answers the question of I would rather fish than watch football.)

[Redfish12]

I do the same thing chimo posted. On bigger fish like crappie there can be meat under the ribs so I do a sharp angle under the ribs and scrape up and out if that makes sense.

Never learned how to butterfly a trout though and that's normally what I fish for this time of year in sw Va.

Great report by the way guys!

[surfdog]

i also use chimos method, but i like the butterflied pearch too have to try that