Bluegill Filleting

[mumbleye]

you're missing all the shoulder meat. huge waste

[JustPlainBored00]

Big waste of meat

[grmyers1]

A electric fillet knife is the only way to go it is very simple to use as you demostrated so well and their is no waste.very good video.

[fishinpals]

paintball27-- You're probably right about being lazy. Us gill fishermen tend to be that way. We find a hole and set there for hours catching gills. Now if we were talking about cleaning only one gill there might be some waste. Probably not enough to get a taste, but normally we fillet close to a hundred each time. And there are some we do not fillet but leave whole.

[Vy10n1s]

@fishinpals For one the daily limit on blue gill is only 25 per person so that's not possible. And I have cleaned 200 blue gill with one other person in and hour filledand rib cage out and all.

[fishinpals]

I don't know where your from but in IL there may be a site limit at a few lakes but most have a no limit on size or numbers. One lake here has a 10 fish limit for gills. Farm ponds have no limit and like I stated most lakes don't have a limit. Those lakes and pond usually have good size fish, not stinted 6" gills.

[AverageDoughnut]

@fishinpals

This is very true. There's no state limit on the number of sunfish you can catch. Also, even without the auto knife filleting bluegills is really easy. Same method, and it takes about 30 seconds on each side.

[gooookstomp]

@fishinpals there ain't no size limit or bag limit in indiana....25 a day?? what a joke......

[gooookstomp]

@fishinpals there ain't no size limit or bag limit in indiana....25 a day?? what a joke...... there is a llimit on redear tho

[MrOntariofish]

@fishinpals in canada its 300 per person

[McCauley676]

@fishinpals

Speak for yourself man, because I'm pretty sure that you're one of the few people that does that.

[paintball227]

there is ( in my mind) still a considerable amount of meat you missed using your filleting method. Personaly i hate electric knives because they do tend to miss meat and when filleting such a small fish the tastes so good you want to get all the meat you can, and a electric knife will not do the job. It was made for the lazy fisherman.

[beteroo]

Normal cutting skill, but your motor kinfe is awesome.

[bananasketch]

Scale 'em, cut the head off, remove the guts, and fry 'em up. The bones are easy to remove after the meat is cooked, especially once you get used to it. Far les meat is wasted.

[fishinpals]

We do that with many of the gills. Just one cut to take guts and head off. The wasted meat when filleting is extremely very little. You would have to shine the bones to get extra meat and an ant wouldn't live very long on the saved meat. We did a test and found that either way doesn't make any difference. Of course that depends on the person doing the cleaning (filleting or gutting).

[JaYtreb14]

Scale them with a spoon***

[JaYtreb14]

Bluegills really arn't worth fileting, what i do is scale them with a spood, cut the bottom side of the fish and take all the guts out and when i get inside take some kitchen sisors and take the spine out, cut them in half,then put some flour and bread crumbs on it and cook it that way. Its better that way i think, and you get more meat.

[JoseReyesV1000]

thanks i didnt know that you wouldnt cut all the way through

[hammyoni]

great vid, good tech with the tail and skin

[fjewels1]

im shoked i would never do as well as you on all the fish i fillet

call me at 480 299 7087.

[emlega01]

Check out muskymod's fillet technique.

[chicago6584]

Totally. Thumbs up

[ketay88]

wasted a good amount of meat there 2nd side wasn't as bad though

[KCDZfilms]

bluegill are tasty

[teemotube]

Thanks for the vid fishinpals, and don't pay any attention to the people that just say mean things cause it's the internet :)

[thumpic]

this is the worst filet job I have ever seen............

[fishinpals]

Thanks. Maybe you can take the time to show us a better way. Just download your video and lets us know. It would be greatly appreciated

[h3wg0]

Great job man. I'm just a bit curious about the ribcage; i usually take the meat from under it, but ive got a couple of complains about the bones... is that why you just take that whole chunk down?

[fishinpals]

Your right. I take the whole rib cage so there is no worry about any bones and there is not enough meat to be concerned about. Good Fishin..........

[JumbaFan]

Seems like you wasted a bit of meat doing this...on the other hand, there's no messing around with the little bones when you're trying to eat them! I don't really mind that too much, but most people I know would rather have the fillets. I just might try this sometime.

[2066241]

idk about him i catch so many that it doesnt matter!!

[MonkeyDog500]

wow those are small fillets

[sucklava]

Those are small fish.

[2066241]

ya reaterd look at the size of the fish...they taste awesome though

[MonkeyDog500]

fucking retard u cant even spell it he's missing alot of meat

[2066241]

u haave no common sense do you..

[MonkeyDog500]

what makes u think that look at muskymods vid

[2066241]

WTF r u talking about

[MonkeyDog500]

look at muskymods fillet vid his fillets are bigger

[fishinpals]

They taste great. Once you had a mess of gill fillets and some hot beans and rice you will become a avid bluegill fisherman.

[jtr10411]

do they taste good cuz i catch bluegill all the time when im fishing for little catfish

[bigbomber2007]

omg, blue gill r very tasty

[wwwbluegilltalkcom]

Gills are the only other white meat

[wifisherman]

nicely done

[riptorrex]

Yeah, I filet my bluegill the same way. I don't keep a bluegill unless he is 8-9". Any smaller than that and the filet turns into the size of a quarter in the frier!

[towely]

Yea but those small cuts end up extra crispy and are DAMN good IMO.

[gillgetter01]

I sometimes use a electric knife,BUT when you use a elec. knife you will get tiny bone pieces left in fillet (kinda like pin bones) from the elec knife cutting along the spine/rib cage. No big deal but I perfer to fillet with reg knife to avoid this.

If you never had bluegill fillets, your missing some of the best fish you ever had! I perfer them over walleye any day!!

[Cinderdan]

When you have at least 100 bluegills or bream, the meat piles up fast. It is very worth it. Save the head/backbone for crawfish bait, it's the best crawfish bait you will ever net with.

[Dreamline45056]

Are bluegill really worth the trouble?

[auburngolfer]

yep, their hard fighters for their size, and make an exelent filet

[TogakureDaisuke]

This is a decent version for using an electric fillet knife. If you don't have an electric and want to save meat I'd suggest checking out muskymod's Bluegill filleting technique. (I know some people will say that you aren't wasting very much meat, but after filleting like 30+ gills, it's a lot of meat wasted.)

[wunjin]

Why would you even eat a fish that small? There is only like 3 bites of mean on that damn thing.

[MVPbaseball52]

you use it as bait

[RighteousBigot]

That sounds like a question from someone that has never ate sunnies, it's some of the best tasting fish there is, if you get enough of them and fry em up with some good beerbatter you are in for a treat.

[lopojo7]

thats how I fillet my bluegill. saves a lot of time.

[mscandycane]

i like the fish skin

[simplemanhere]

Now that's how you fillet a fish. No scaling and less than a minute per fish. Well done!

[chamberpotman]

c'mon! don't eat that puny bluegill! keep it in a tank and wait till it gets to be like 4 lbs then hold it up in front of the camera!!!!!!!!

[viciousKev]

ive swallowed some bones, now i cut them out

[shyznic]

yes it maybe little, but after 4 to 5 fish you fillet like that itll add up to 1 whole..further more no need to filllet the bones are so small after frying they become so brittle a 3yr old could eat them...

[fishinpals]

I have fried a lot of whole gills and have yet to see the bones eatable. Would never give a 3 year old a fried whole bluegill. To big a chance they would get a bone stuck in their throat.

[shyznic]

if you cook them at 375-400 they will become brittle in less than 5 minutes ..yes there will be some rib bones that may still be there but much will very brittle..there many other that will agree.. we can go back and forth all day ..but fillet a 1/4lb to 1 1/2 bluegill is a waste of time..

[shyznic]

im very upset to see you waist so much of that fish..just scale then gut..remove the head, split the fish from the inside of the backbone towards the dorsal.. batter and fry complete with tail .. you are waisting fish!!!

theres so much meat left there on that carcus you just discarded... PEOPLE PLEASE DONT FOLLOW THIS METHOD..WE FELLET SALMON AND HALIBUT NOT BLUEGILL ....

[fishinpals]

The meat you waste on a gill wouldn't feed a nat.

[itshimkevinkim]

how do u eat bluegill!? its so small.. like its half a bite =[ but im wondering if its still any good eating cause if it is im gunna go and try some

[smokingunderwater]

Wow man thanks alot i never knew how to fellet and this taught me how thank you so much

[JeanC38]

After years of tossing bluegills back when I caught them, I finally decided to give them a try. This vid gave me a good idea how to fillet them and helped a lot. I can see where having an electric knife is a good thing, it took me FOREVER to fillet 30+ of them. I wasn't sure it was going to be worth the effort, but once I got them pan fried, MMM MMM GOOD!!!

5 stars on the vid :)

[exquisiteoaf]

Is there any need to scrape the scales off the fish if you use this method?

[fishinpals]

No need to scle fish when filleting.

[eastdav2003]

thanks just caught 15 needed to know how to cut them

[latinoboi681]

wow u r awesum!

[chazdeer]

bravo! good show