Filleting a Perch, the Easy Way

[rseas]

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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[Toni]

When caught a few perch w/my grand kids this summer I kept a few and used this same video. Works great.

[jd39]

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.

[Idstud]

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.

[Mike Carey]

thanks, learned something new. I cut behind the gillplate first. His method is a better way.

[AlexanderS]

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

[TeachingTitusToFish]

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

[zen leecher aka Bill W]

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

[DavidA]

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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[racfish]

Thanks rseas. Good to know that easy clean method.