How to clean and skin trout (gut a fish)

Cleaning and skinning trout with a pair of scissors. It's best to clean the trout shortly after catching. The technique is the same for salmon.

I've tried this method for bass, shad, and panfish (brim), but have found that this method works best for trout.

These trout were caught at Boca Reservoir near Truckee, CA on 12/06/08. There were 7 of us that caught the fish. We did a lot of catch and release and kept 15 between us all.

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[hyunki0510]

lol. i can catch fish but i am to disgusted to gut and skin them. Do you get used to it after you do it a couple of times>?

[zurCekiM]

@hyunki0510 My wife used to be disgusted with cleaning fish until I showed her this method. You will get used to it after few.

[CI321]

wow thats alot of fish, how do u de-bone them?

[zurCekiM]

@CI321 It's easier to de-bone them once cooked. 

[williams51210]

Can that method work for catfish as well?

[zurCekiM]

@williams51210 This will not work on catfish. Catfish skin is very tough and can be a chore to remove. This method works best on the trout and salmon families.

[ElizabethWebster]

"Shove the scissors in its anus.. haha."

Nice.

[skiie]

haha anus

[xXxSIGNITxXx]

@hyunki0510 by clean and dont eat i also mean that I give the fillets to my cousins local resturante

[hyunki0510]

@xXxSIGNITxXx damnnnnn... wish i didn't have a limit to fish.

[xXxSIGNITxXx]

@hyunki0510 the stream i live by has an average of about 20-25,000 natural trout a year. no need to stock em just catch em

[ThatOGDon]

Thanks for posting the video!

It's been forever since I've used this method and I've long since forgotten how to do it until now.

Thanks again for the upload.

Now I'll be more efficient.

[hyunki0510]

@xXxSIGNITxXx bro, that's what over fishing is and not eating them? shame on you. If you aren't going to eat them, why would you kill them. Otherwise your lying or you are seriously causing a big problem for the trout population in your area.

[xXxSIGNITxXx]

@hyunki0510 i use to be exactly like that. i just did what he did on the tutorial and now i go catch about 30-40 trout a week and clean them/sometimes not even to eat just to practise

[SakiWatari]

0.o ... *faints* Anyway~ Ugh, I'm from Tennessee, I should already have known what the inside of a fish looked like xD Thank you very much. I've been curious for a while as to how to do that, but when I try to find these videos every fish seems to be skinned alive. I can't watch that!

[sundogforlove]

What kind of scissors are those. Great video. Thanks

[FED50H]

Awesome vid. Just came back to the house with 5 trout I caught from a stocked pond. Never cleaned trout, only bass crappie and catfish. This is definately way easier. Thanks a lot. Just ate two for lunch, pond to plate in under 2 hours. Only way it would be fresher was if I ate them on the bank.....

[hyunki0510]

@HaamSammich lol. don't worry. i can gut fish now without a problem.