Bluegill Filleting

Filleting bluegill

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• fish
• cleaning
• bluegill
• filleting

[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.

[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).

[JustPlainBored00]

Big waste of meat

[ketay88]

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

[McCauley676]

@fishinpals

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

[mumbleye]

you're missing all the shoulder meat. huge waste

[MrOntariofish]

@fishinpals in canada its 300 per person

[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

[gooookstomp]

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

[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.

[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.