How I fillet a Yellow Perch

[unirdna]

Here's a video showing how I fillet yellow perch.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRvJYCZsoNg]YouTube - How I fillet Yellow Perch[/ame]

 

[bgill]

Nice Unirdna...You can save a bit of time by making the "Y" bone cut BEFORE skinning - Then when you skin the fillet, the "Y" bone part falls right off! Except for that part I do it the exact same way...Only at about the speed of the second half of the vid!!! :martialBut I've got like 35 years worth of fish cleanin' under my belt!!!

Good job - No meat wasted!

Pssst!...I was poking at the "cheeks" of the bigger perch I got...Not big enough though! Ever had walleye cheeks? They're awesome!

Hey...Idea! Do carp have cheeks? Hmmmmm.....

 

[Whopperhead]

Hey...Idea! Do carp have cheeks? Hmmmmm.....

Even seen the movie HANNIBAL? He prepares carp cheeks. they say it's the best part.

 

[unirdna]

Dan, try filleting a fish while you explain every little thing to a camera...really, try it. It's a much bigger PIA than I had anticipated, and slows you down about 4X. :blackeye

Good call on cutting out the little bones before skinning the fillet! I look forward to trying that. That's the sort of advice I was hoping to get.

And yeah, I've tried cheeks - walleye and N. pike. It's good. But, IMO you need to go the distance preparing them in the special way to appreciate the difference. If you just fry them up like the fillet they taste the same as the rest of the meat. Lower heat - less time. Oh yeah....and the fish needs to be damn big to be worth the bother.

 

[unirdna]

I do it the exact same way...Only at about the speed of the second half of the vid!!! :martialBut I've got like 35 years worth of fish cleanin' under my belt!!!

BTW Dan, how much older do you think you are than I? I'm 34 - not exactly a spring chicken. You're not even old enough to be my dad....maybe a big brother or an uncle. And I gotta tell you, I had a delightful habit of punching my uncles in the nuts while they were talking on the telephone. Way back then, I only needed to run 20 feet to be safe from a beating (the length of the phone cord). I also recall "Dust in the wind" being my favorite NEW song on the radio, and standing in a 1/4-mile line to see Star Wars.

 

[Fondueset]

'Dust in the wind' - wow Ted. Almost makes up for the fact that we can't spear perch here - we CAN hear about how they are pulling 16 inch perch out of 40-60 feet of water at a very specific location and in huge quantities however. We can FREAKIN hear about it..

Beauty diveage herebouts lately - the Drums are in and I spent a couple hours monofinning in their midst last night.

 

[Jon]

And I gotta tell you, I had a delightful habit of punching my uncles in the nuts while they were talking on the telephone.

I just spit my coffee out on my key board.roflroflrofl


Jon

 

[dotey]

:naughty:naughty:naughty LOL wow you guys are old cause the first thing is i dont even know that song and i have never watch star wars LOL maybe you can teach a old dog new tricks after all sorry i just didnt know you were that old

 

[Jon]

I'm older than both of them and have always hated that song. :yack

Now get off my lawn! :martial

Jon

 

[Fondueset]

Late 70s neo-existential-nostalgasmism - a transitional genre that eventually evolved into the near Zen-like celebration-of-what-might-under-other-circumstances-be-well...silly' exemplified in the song Safety Dance by the Canadian-Band-one-tends-to-think-of-as-Australian; Men without hats.

Same thing, different era.

 

[dotey]

LOLroflroflrofl:naughty:naughty​

 

[Whopperhead]

LOL! the oven is Pre-Heated - awesome!

 

[bgill]

I doubt I could do it any faster while trying to film it, narrate it, and do the fish at the same time! Good job!

 

[Fondueset]

One thing for sure; age has nothing to do with it. I'm older than any of you mewling man-boys and anything I try to fillet comes out looking like yogurt with eyes floating around in it.