how to clean and fillet all panfish in 6 easy steps. crappie blue gill sunfish perch

How to Fillet small Blue Gills.
Anyone can clean a big fish, but it takes a sharp knife and a plan to get the meat off the little ones.
The no mess way to clean just about any fish.
Once you know how to do it, you can clean about 2 fish a minute.

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[damiangonzalez615]

can u just fillet them like u did and then throw the fillets on the pan?Or how about fillet them and then take off the skin?

[beanhill74]

@damiangonzalez615

you can eat the skins, some people really like them, I prefer not to.

If you want to eat the skins you have to scale the fish BEFORE you fillet them.

Otherwise the skins come off real easy, i show it at the end of the video.

[Goddesstara1974]

Awesome! My husband scales the fish and leaves the skin on. He told me he's never seen someone take the skin off bluegill so I would need to find a tutorial on how to take that skin off if I wanted him to do it. Thank you so much!

[beanhill74]

@Goddesstara1974

Skin on or Skin off is just a personal preference.

ill tell you the fillets after removing the skin are a whole lot smaller, so if you are feeding lots of people you will need a ton more fish.

Ive eaten the skin plenty of times, i just prefer to remove them.

[peterchao221]

make videos of you catching these fish!!

[beanhill74]

@peterchao221

Watch GhettoFisherman.

Its some guy from Canada and that is the best "Real" fishing channel on youtube.

[beanhill74]

@chaosmage99 That guy who cleans perch in 10 seconds only guts and skins the fish, so if you and your family are into eating fish with bones be my guest. For those people who want to eat like civilized people it takes about 11/2 mins per fish. if you are real good you can fillet and skin a fish in a minute flat, im at about 1:15 myself.

Or if you really want to speed things up get a friend or two and do it like Henry ford. one takes the meat off, one takes the ribs out, one takes off the skin.

[DFBlair1964]

I like the way you back cut to the ribs to keep all the guts in, but the bones out! Thanks for sharing this method, my counter top will be a whole lot cleaner now!

[goingfishing313]

Best method of filleting fish I've seen. Some of those gills were small but you got every bit of meat of it. Bones were still in right?

[Odinpiper]

Thanks for posting.

[rupert852]

now I have an excuse to hit the lakes. gotta try this out.

[chaoticprime]

I just cleaned my first mess of bluegill EVER and I had no clue what I was doing, but I managed to get it done! I cut off the head first, then gutted it, then scaled it. Later my son told me I did it all wrong - after watching this video I admit I didn't do the best job - but they are edible!

[MrCw1969]

Good info about the heavy metals, thanks for adding that.