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  • That there is some of the best eating fish... love it.

  • Looks good to me! Why all bad comments?

  • Love the nob head comments about how bad he is at filleting,at least he is getting of his arse and going fishing unlike you dreamers.

    hello from New Zealand

  • @allan8233 Hi from Rhode Island! I was in New Zealand last year-- I LOVE it there!!

    Thanks for watching!

  • Is this dude serious? He totally hacked that thing up.

  • terrible absolutely horrible missed all of the ribbon meat and lost chunks due to that stupid knife

  • bad, just bad

  • Smiling mode 4:10 Serious mode 4:12

  • Great video I have used this method many times over the past year. Are you using a double edged knife in this video? All the fillet knives I have bought from Walmart and like stores don't seem to last long what filet knives do you suggest?

  • @haftafish8780 - That's why they sell sharpeners bud... ;0) 

  • Thanks for this, I had no idea where to start. I've filleted fish, but never flounder.

  • @RiotDemon No Problem, glad to help!

  • @KettlebottomCrew We call that a flounder here in Northwest Florida...certainly an interesting way to fillet..I don"t do it that way though..I start at the tail and go up the bone with a sharp fillet knife...flip it over and do the same. I don't let mine sit in ice either for that long...soon as we get home...we fillet them..oh well, different strokes for different folks...It was neat to see how you fillet though...Good Luck fishin!

  • sure did waste/leave alot of meat on the fish

  • oh yeah, I found out why he's got so much waste, it's cause he left it on the bone for a extended period, the meat clings to the bone more when it rests since it softens up while resting. from my experience, do it as soon as it's bled, then the meat pops off the bone cleanly and without waste.

  • @flamedrag18 You must not clean a whole lot of fish....iced fish cleans much better than fresh as it is firm.

  • @sniperpeeps the meat's firmer, but the meat also sticks to the bone more when frozen and defrosted/ I am a commercial fisherman damn it, don't start telling me how to process fish, I do it all day for 4 months straight.

  • @flamedrag18 He never says anything about freezing, he says keep it iced. I understand you have a lot of experience with cleaning fish, being a commercial guy. We do overnight trips for Tuna and other things. Fish sits on ice for hours, sometimes 24 plus hours.  No problems with meat sticking to bone and the meat is nice and firm and easy to work with. Guess its a preference thing.

  • i would not let this guy touch anything i caught!! WRONG KNIFE bro! i only use a dexter russell 2333-9 it was designed just for this purpose

  • Dude thanks alot now I know how to catch them and do whatever your doing! And dis u feed the other dog?

  • wow, I see a lot of waste there.

  • @france357 he may b a tool but his shed is full of hoes

  • The dog is waiting for sashimi! HA! Thanks for the great video. Never caught a fluke, and hope to get some this summer at the shore!

  • you can use the left over belly for bait...itss like squid

  • 1:34 moki!

  • Picture The Little Mermaid watching this, crying and throwing up. :P

  • @nikanj Ummm the Little Mermaid is a ficticious cartoon character. Maybe you should check back in to reality??

  • @KettlebottomCrew

    Maybe you should use more drugs.

  • u r a tool! :)

  • Good job

  • When I fillet fish. I always bring home a 5 gallon bucket of salt water from the ocean. After I'm finished filleting and skining the fish. I drop the peices into the bucket to give them a rinse. You'd be amazed at the junk that comes off the fish. In no time the water will become cloudy. If you want to feeeze some of the fish. It helps by doing this as it leaves a small coating of salt on the fish. Which help perserve it.

  • Nice video. When I catch fish like flounnder I always bring home a 5 gallon bucket of salt water from the ocean. When I finish filleting and skining the fish. I drop the fillet into the bucket and give them a rinse. You'd be amazed at the junk that comes off the fillets. The water in the bucket will turn cloudy in no time. It makes it better if you freeze some of the fish. As they will have a light coating of salt on them. Which heps to perserve the fish.

  • god dam flys

  • no need 2 fillet it just flour and fry eat 1 side flip and eat the other done tht 4 years

  • Grate entertaiment !!

  • wait you dont have a joey skinner on your board?

  • Why not just use the "Wonder Boner" ?

  • @Blackmetalstudios That's what SHE said! (sorry, couldn't resist.) I've never heard of it and my trusty knife hasn't let me down yet.

  • @KettlebottomCrew It's something that you most definitely would say "that's what she said" too. Regarding my comment, haha!

  • @KettlebottomCrew HAHAHA that was funny .... good joke : /

  • i've never heard of waiting to fillet it for that long, my neighbor is one of the biggest fisherman i've ever known and i fish too. the best fish is caught and cooked fresh. if you have ice in your cooler (i.e. frozen jugs of water) that fish is rock hard stiff when you get home and easy to fillet.

  • Thanks for the how to! I'm going to go clean my catch now and cook it up for dinner. Your pup looks pretty hungry himself! lol.

  • Thanks for the "how to's" they are perfect! My husband is an avid inland fisherman but I love the saltwater! Guess what's for dinner ;)

  • @camelangel Thanks! We will keep them coming!

  • theres a fly eating your fish!

  • @SmokeTreeAllDay hes not eating much...

  • Good one!

  • I caught two flounder and am glad i found your video. I was able to fillet it, and got maximum meat off using your method. :)

  • Dude, you don't need to wait 12 to 48 hours, if you're good, you can do it while the fish is still alive. I do it all the time.

  • @Cinderdan You can certainly do it immediately but allowing it to cool on ice for a day makes the meat less watery and much more firm. You get a better quality fillet if you wait.

  • @KettlebottomCrew I understand, my man, but there is nothing like a filet quivering in the pan when the heat hits it. Now that's fresh fish.

  • "dogs love sushi"

  • your technique was most helpful! i used skinner pliers instead of a knife to skin the fish. my knife wasn't very sharp:( .......thanks!

  • dude my brim are the size of that...

    jk ur good at this... ever been striped bass fishing? its fun. if u would reccomend this buy some rat-l-traps and start fishing at about 5:30 in the morning to about 7:30 then go back in the evening

    around 5:30 in the afternoon till about 6:30 in the winter

  • @TheTheNinjaPoptart Stripers are my favorite inshore fish!!  I love to catch them or spearfish for them at every chance I get...

  • @smoothcriminal997 They shouldn't be if you do it carefully.

  • Nice Video i used this method for cleaning my first fish im only 12 so yeah :D

  • @jellybellyloonatick Awesome! Glad to help!

  • Caught a nice 2 pounder this morning off South Whidbey Island, WA; glad I saw this video before I attempted to clean my fish! I will leave it on ice over night like you said and hope to be enjoying my catch this time tomorrow! Cheers!

  • Nice job wish I saw this before I filleted the flounder I caught, I ended up losing a lot of meat, then again it wasn't that big to begin with. Hopin to catch a doormat next time I go down to Florida!

  • really great and informative video thanks alot

  • you suck :( ; lousy knife work

  • @hyeonjoong If you can do better, show us-- because I see you have zero videos of your own. If you can't do better, which is likely, you really suck.

  • @KettlebottomCrew : first of all, you used the wrong type of knife. 2nd, do white side first. 3rd, no layers of cut marks should be visible. Hence, you suck !

  • @hyeonjoong All I see are your opinion, your opinion, your opinion, and you being a total jerk. Post something if you think you're such an expert-- show us how it's done.

  • @hyeonjoong lol u listen to snsd and avril lavigne a person listening to those 2 shouldnt be telling someone how to fillet u little girl

  • @KettlebottomCrew;

    great technique, You make it look easy. thanks for sharing.

    P.S. Ignore the idiots and haters like Hyeonjoong.

  • 4:10 to 4:12 lol

  • Does it have to be "on ice" for 12-48 hours? What about just refrigerating it once you get home?

  • @bluewavesix ice is better, best being a cold slush of ice and salt but a refrigerator would also be fine. The goal is to cool the meat on the bone and allow to settle. If you can bleed the fish right after catching then cool for 12-24 hours your fish will taste great! We will post a video on how to properly bleed flounder in the near future..

  • can i use a pocket knife to do it and did u scale it an what should i do if i mess it up

  • @socoboy88 Watch to the end of the video-- Robb shows you how to take off the skin, scales and all. If you mess up (which you will likely do at first) just do your best to get as much as possible. Follow the bones as close as possible and you shouldn't miss much meat...

  • I am looking for some plans to make a homemade floundering light any ideas?

  • @haftafish8780 Well, I've heard that in the past, people would take a lantern out at night and spear Winter Flounder. I think they would use a Coleman Camping lantern.  If you have access to shore power, maybe you could use a submersible work light...

  • @KettlebottomCrew way to wase meat

  • @richard2mitchell What?? I guess you could get a little more meat if you cook it whole but this method gets most of the meat. Robb uses the racks as Lobster bait, too, so NOTHING gets wasted.

  • this may be a stupid question but do flounders have scales. i love to fish bubt they just dont have em here in nebraska

  • @appy234 Yes, Flounder have small scales. Robb skins the fillets to avoid eating them...

  • awesome skilz buddy and kewl dogs

  • Thank you. It's usually a pain to fillet a Flounder if you don't know how.

  • Its weird how you pronounce fillet, you say 'fill-lay' its pronounced 'fill-it', is this an american thing or is it just you? just curious man

  • i saw fill-lay... i've never met anyone that says fill-it... where are you from?

  • I also haven't met anyone who says fill-it. Around here, we ALL say fill-ay...

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  • Flies are a part of life in the summer, fresh or not. These fish were put on ice alive and filleted quickly, They were as fresh as they get.

  • @ irich62  "the flies are a nice touch. must be real fresh" wow, you are indeed a douche bag.

  • well whatever man, I don't like any meat restin on my bone. wtf.

  • nice job. but 48 hr old sushi...lol come on buddy

  • If you get sushi or fish at the store or in a restaraunt, you're getting fish that's been out of the water for weeks, on average. If kept on ice, it'll keep for quite a while...

  • im glad som1 finally decided to educate everyone to rest the meat for 2 days b4 the fillet.

  • Robb taught me to-- it helps the meat firm up and makes filleting much easier.

  • I would so rather be fishing than here at work.

  • Yup, me too!

  • Is the flesh boneless after?

  • Yes it is.

  • it took me about 10 minutes to fillet my first fluke but fillets were nearly perfect

  • Awesome! Hope the video helped!

  • so put the fish on ice for about 48 hours? all fish? or just flounder?

  • If at all possible, we put all fish we catch on ice for at least 12 to 24 hours to let the meat firm up. If you fillet them immediately, the meat is soft and it's a little bit harder to do. Putting them on ice and allowing them to get cooled off completely makes the meat firm and the fillets are easier to remove in one piece...

  • this is y i love flounder they taste great and u get twice as much meat off them :)

    thanks for posting

  • i watched this video yesterday, and then i went to fillet my flounder caught over the weekend. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO! job well done!

  • No problem! Glad we could help! Check out our Flounder recipe-- Ritz crackers, butter, lemon, and fish. It's really, really easy and really good!!

  • Same as I do mine...Glad we dont have size limits here in Nova Scotia for our Winter Flounder. Limit out almost each outing :-)

  • finally someone does it right! thank you much

  • Thanks. I catch a lot a fluke and butcher them on the table. Can't wait to catch my next one.

  • i we caught one 2 weeks ago that was just over 21 inches long

  • I got a nice 16 1/2 incher today and did this method, first time ever filleting a fluke, and I got 4 good sized fillets out that I plan on frying up on monday.

  • Nice! Here in RI, Fluke have to be 21 inches to keep!! It's been harder to bring home fish this year... If you need a good recipe, look for our Fluke recipe on our channel. It's about as easy a recipe that you can find and really, really good...

  • Will do. Most of the time when I cook fish I leave it simple, every once in awhile I'll do a basil pesto with fire roasted tomatoes with linguini alfredo, usually Ahi Tuna. Salmon I do my own sweet and spicy glaze using brown sugar and some other things. I don't know if they have Ahi Tuna in RI, if they do try and get some 5x5 1/2 inch steaks, sear them on each side and cover in a basil pesto sauce over alfredo pasta, great stuff. My favorite seafood.

  • the 21 inches is kicking my ass this year not that it wasnt kicking my ass last year but its getting hard to keep some of these fish

  • in california, they have to be 22 inches. out on the piers nobody catches anything let alone 22 inches. We have halibut actually, not fluke.

  • You filletted an illegal sized Fluke!!!! Just kidding lol good thing u didnt get in trouble. They are good tasting dont u agree? Where did u catch it anyway?

  • The legal size here in this part of NC is 14 inches, other areas is 15. Flounder down this way are considerably smaller than the ones up north, though people pull fish of around 16 lbs once in a great while. The fish in New River are on the smaller side I've found, though I know a guy who routinely gets 20+ inch fish. Taste great though, almost identical to freshwater large mouth bass.

  • I can assure you, the Fluke was legal here in RI. (that year the size limit was 19 inches) We caught that one inside Narragansett Bay, near Newport, RI.

  • i caught one that was 15 inches and the legal limit was 18 inches in new jersey. kept it anyway :)

  • Well, it happens a lot but we DO NOT condone keeping undersized fish!!

  • lucky that your size limit is only 18, up here in NY its 21 inches friggin government thing we're catching halibut or something

  • and you also need a licence to fish in saltwater in NY.

    i think 10 years ago it used to be 15 or 16 inches in nj. so it is not much of a big deal to keep a 15 or 16 incher, but anything like under 12 inch is just retarded.

  • hey i haven't been asked if i had a fishing license yet so im guessing its not too big of a deal

  • limit in lousiana is 10 inches lol

  • awesome video, I messed up to many flounder lastnight. thanks for making this video!

  • Thanks for this video it really helped me out. I can't understand why anyone would criticize someone taking the time to help others out, especially when it's a perfect method. I followed the video step by step and had a wonderful meal. Anyway, thanks again and don't mind the idiots who are too stupid to follow step by step instructions.

  • Awesome! Glad we could help! Yeah, it's a mystery how bassamerica could screw up something we tried hard to break down into an easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructional video. He or she must be utterly useless to anyone, including to themself, and need someone else to blame...

  • Excellent, thanks for taking the time to share your skill.

  • Great!!! Thanks for the feedback!  Glad we could help!

    Capt. Robb

  • thanks!!

  • i fucked up 4 flounder after watching this dumb ass

  • Most people who watched our video had a good success rate. They were thankful to finally see a method that anyone with common sense and any skill with a blade can do. It's not our fault you apparently have neither. We can only show you how we do it: if you're not smart enough to do it right after we show you step-by-step, maybe you should try something a lot less complicated. Maybe someone posted a video on how to tie your shoes...

  • If it worked for someone else, and they show you step by step, I think its more of a personal problem, don't you?

  • Nice to see a proper tutorial.

    Nicely done.

  • 4:12 hahaha, smile to a serious look

  • this is a great how-to video...thanx 4 the post

  • Thanks! We really hope it helps! Filleting a flatfish isn't an easy thing to do... Once you get some fillets, check out the recipe we posted for Fluke. It works with just about any fish and is easy and tasty! You can have the fish cooked and ready to eat in less than 20 minutes...

  • A proper fillet knife would be nice.

  • oops...i didn't watch far enuf..never mind

  • do you leave the skin on?

  • the bottom white part i use and cut into thin little strips of leather like material for bait for flounders :)

  • you should just use the sides of the bottom filet for that closest to the fins dont really want to waste the meat of the fish do you

  • Agreed, the belly meat is just as good and the fillets are as thick as the top ones. Fluke bellys make awesome bait, though, in part because the skin is very tough and you can catch multiple fish with one strip. Squid or Mummichogs don't fare so well...

  • yeah squid tends to catch more but it doesnt last =] anyway great video i learned a few things from it

  • Check out our website for other how-to videos, including how to fillet a Bluefish. We also have how to rig up a wire-line setup, how to rig Fluke rigs, and a lot more. Check under web-only videos... We also have cooking videos and recipes. Check out how to prepare Fluke and an AWESOME Sicilian recipe for Bluefish. Search for Kettlebottom to find our website...

  • thanks man, helped alot, do you post videos on how to fillet a middle fish like a bluefish? because i can fillet the first half of it, but it gets difficult for the last half of the blue

    thanks

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