Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

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Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by rseas » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:34 am

After spending way too long filleting last weekends perchfest spoils I figured there had to be a better way. After a brief search on YouTube I found this method. Typically I am good with a knife and have filleted thousands of fish (deckhand/cook on a SoCal sport boat) but filleting the smaller fish has always been time consuming. This method rocks and I can't wait to try it out on our next bucket of yellow perch.

Watch "EASIEST PERCH CLEANING METHOD . wmv" on YouTube
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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by Toni » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:21 am

When caught a few perch w/my grand kids this summer I kept a few and used this same video. Works great.
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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by jd39 » Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:23 am

I like an electric knife when cleaning a big batch of perch. My grandfather always used one and could tear through a 5 gallon bucket of perch in no time. I'm not quite there yet but it has sped up the process a lot, I still take the ribs off and cut the pin bones out with a fillet knife though.

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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by Idstud » Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:58 am

Wow that is a cool way of doing it. Thanks for sharing the video. Maybe on your next run for perch we could hook up. O:)

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Post by Mike Carey » Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:44 pm

thanks, learned something new. I cut behind the gillplate first. His method is a better way.
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Post by AlexanderS » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:34 pm

Awesome!,can't wait to catch some perch and make great fish fingers:)thanks for the video!

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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by TeachingTitusToFish » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:50 am

Dredging up an old post, but do you guys remove the pin bones from perch or are the small enough you leave them in?

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Post by zen leecher aka Bill W » Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:08 am

looks like this guy is even faster than when using an electric knife.

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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by DavidA » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:49 pm

This isn't filleting, simply cleaning and the actual time taken is longer than the claim, but it is a pretty neat way to clean perch:

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Re: Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

Post by racfish » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:37 pm

Thanks rseas. Good to know that easy clean method. =D>

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