Fish Skinnin'

We always used a spoon before the fileting days. Fancy looking contraption though.

I prefer my Crappie to be Scaled rather than filet'd, and I also want the skin left on it.....helps to seal in the flavor. Remember, the closer the bone the sweeter the meat ! ! ! Nothing beats a spoon and sharp knife for cleaning fish. The only filets eaten around my house are by the women and children! Compared to a scaled Crappie a filet just doesn't have any flavor, IMHO..... I also prefer my Catfish to be skint and left on the bone if small enough or cut into steaks.

Try scale'n Crappie then fillet with skin on.

I've tried it that way Nimrod but I still like that "bone-in" flavor! Don't get me wrong, I do like and eat lots of filets...but if I am cooking fish for myself I prefer them scaled and on the bone. Maybe it's because that's the way I ate fish growing up...

Townsend Fish Skinner, fish skinning tool


if you want a new townsend fish skinner janns netcraft has them. back in the early 60's i fished greers when it was hot for bass and a dentist had a home in higdon. i forget where he lived. i think little rock. he used a townsend to skin the bass he and his son caught. that was the first and only time i'd seen one used.

Been see'n em on Ebay too.

I've got a couple new ones. And from the sound of it, I'm the only one that wants one. :biggrin

Weve used them for a very long time. If you dont like the skin thats left from scaling bream, crappie, or smaller bass, the Townsands Fish Skinner is the way to go. They work good for us.

I fillet eveything. But there is the occasion I get hungry for bream the way Paw Pa did it. He cut the heads and tails off then pulled the fins out and used one of these contraptions to pull the hide off. We literally ate thousands of bream this way while I grew up.
I keep one in my arsenal too.
DP

hmmmmmmm!