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Ddaddy said:
Good evening folks!

Not a great day here on the island weather wise. Heavy thunderstorms and rain for most of the day. But I did manage to get in a few hours fishing after the heavy stuff passed.

Caught a half dozen snapper blue fish and a few nice size blue claw crabs. The wife will have the blue fish for dinner and the crabs are in the floating holding pen waiting for me to get a few more before cooking them up.

Overall, not a bad day despite the crappy weather!
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Good Evening!! And any day fishing is a good day!
 
I may just run a test ground wire from sending unit up to the gas line... far as I know it would be the same thing as the ground strap that broke.
 
I learned a new trick today for filleting blue fish. A local bait shop owner showed me the trick when I went to get minnows today. I followed what he showed me and filleted 6 fish in 15 mins including scaling them first. Pretty cool!
 
Ddaddy said:
I learned a new trick today for filleting blue fish. A local bait shop owner showed me the trick when I went to get minnows today. I followed what he showed me and filleted 6 fish in 15 mins including scaling them first. Pretty cool!
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Blender? :rofl:
 
Went and cut some siding. In this heat. Dumb. 3 sheets and i give up.
 
toolmanmike said:
Blender? :rofl:
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Nope, scale them first and then cut down across the body just behind the gills and turn to run down the body against the spine. Go 1/2” toward the tail and then pin the first part fillet with your free hand fingers and finish running the blade down the spine to the tail. Flip over, and repeat. Then cut out the rib cage on each fillet. Super fast way to do it!
 
Ddaddy said:
Nope, scale them first and then cut down across the body just behind the gills and turn to run down the body against the spine. Go 1/2” toward the tail and then pin the first part fillet with your free hand fingers and finish running the blade down the spine to the tail. Flip over, and repeat. Then cut out the rib cage on each fillet. Super fast way to do it!
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Yep. I fillet crappies the same way.
 
How else would you fillet a fish? Not trying to be a smart ***... just that is the basic way we have always done it. Curious as to how else it would be done.
 
same with walleye. No scaling,and leave fillet attatched at tail. Knife flat to skin it.
 
73 dart custom said:
How else would you fillet a fish?
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With the bigger ocean fish, you fillet from the tail up to the gills. With fluke (flounder) you fillet out from the center of the spine out to the top and bottom on each side.

I never really though to try filleting small ocean fish like they were freshwater fish and when this guy showed me, it just clicked. Usually, the little ones just get headed and gutted and pan fried to be eaten off the bone.

Like this...

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Tooljunkie said:
same with walleye. No scaling,and leave fillet attatched at tail. Knife flat to skin it.
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I usually skin fish with larger or tougher scales like walleye. But the smaller blue fish have tiny scales like rainbow trout, so a quick scaling is all that is needed.
 
Fishing has been slow,northern pike are hitting the bait,but no walleye.
 
Okay those are different. We make the cut behind the gills... run the fillet knife along the backbone and down to the tail, then slide the knife in between the meat and ribs, but don't leave the tail and fins on. We end up with a fillet without the fins and tail on it.
 
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