Fillet crappie.

I guess the electric fillet knife is not an option for me lol. It is hard enough for me to fillet some fish. My wife yell at me every time when I fillet the fish. my Asian family prefer them whole lol.

I fillet them probably the same way as others. I mix between an electric and manual depending on how much I have to clean. My friend on the other hand, does it the most unorthodox way and takes close to 10 minutes per fish. Kind of a pain when you have a mess to clean.
Those look great. That extra head meat is pretty good.

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Originally Posted by Just_Bass

I guess the electric fillet knife is not an option for me lol. It is hard enough for me to fillet some fish. My wife yell at me every time when I fillet the fish. my Asian family prefer them whole lol.

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Since you really don't take that many fish home to clean, anyway, doing it with a manual fillet knife is going to be your best bet. But, like I said, be prepared to be able to sharpen that fillet knife often if you cut rib bones with it. You wouldn't think that the ribs of a fish would be strong enough to dull a fillet knife, but they will .... they'll even dull the serrated blades of an electric fillet knife, eventually. :Doh:

I've eaten fried fish for most of my life ... and likely have eaten them "whole" as often as filleted. (that is if you consider cutting off the head, removing the scales, and gutting the fish as "whole") There is a slight sweet/nutty taste to the skin of freshly caught/cleaned/cooked Crappie .... as long as you don't over-spice it with the coating used.

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Originally Posted by Just_Bass

I guess the electric fillet knife is not an option for me lol. It is hard enough for me to fillet some fish. My wife yell at me every time when I fillet the fish. my Asian family prefer them whole lol.

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I understand, we used to rarely fillet panfish too. Just scale, gut, de-fin, and cut the heads off. Keep the family happy and fed, good luck and stay safe.

I went out shopping at the lake last night, caught about 10 but kept 3 to practice more filleting and try some of those breading mix. It took me really long last time due to slippery cutting board and trying to save belly meat. Will see how it turn out this time.
BTW thank CP for the roadrunner, I use it a lot at night too, the blade is really work to call fish in.

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Originally Posted by Just_Bass

I went out shopping at the lake last night, caught about 10 but kept 3 to practice more filleting and try some of those breading mix. It took me really long last time due to slippery cutting board and trying to save belly meat. Will see how it turn out this time.
BTW thank CP for the roadrunner, I use it a lot at night too, the blade is really work to call fish in.

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You don't have to thank me, I'm just running the contests ... TTI Blakemore sends me the products as partial payment for their Sponsorship of the site. Slab couldn't handle the storage & running the contests (& the site store) all by himself, so he has us Super Mods do it for him.

As for the RR's being good lures, day & night, I couldn't agree more. I've caught Crappie at night with them, myself, mostly casting them in the darkest areas around private docks that have big lights down close to the water. Crappie like "shade", even if it's artificially created by obstacles at night.

We have tried those electric filet knives on multiple fish. Success rate not very good. :fish