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I fillet mine with an electric knife.

I caught 57 last night and it took me just under an hour to fillet them all.

Sometimes I will scrape a few to bake or throw on the grille, but if I am going to fry them, filleting is the only way to go. Gets you miserable faster

Besides, if I would have been scraping and gutting, I would have been up all night cleaning fish.

Oscar

I Have A Buddy That Loves To Fry Them Up Real Crispy And Eat The Finns And Tails.

My kids love the tails. They are like chips to them.

I'm sort of split on it... Growing up, I learned to scale it, cut the head off, gut it and remove the dorsal and anal fins (using the above-mentioned skinning pliers. To cook them we simply would roll them in a mixture of flour and salt & pepper, then pan fry in butter.

Delicious, and the "potato chip" tails are great.

Nowadays, I don't care for the mess I get when I scale them, and I can fillet them a whole lot faster than scaling. When you've got anything over 10 fish to clean, faster is better, so, when it comes to all panfish (bream, perch, crappie), I fillet everything.

i prefer the "cut n gut" method" but the wife insists i fillet them, its a pita but keeps her happy and keeps me fishin!!!

fillet and skin,,required by wife and kids, oh well gotta love em anyways

Originally Posted by tnjeff

I fillet the ones I catch,

me too, pretty easy when you get the hang of workin w/ smaller fish

I've pretty much started just keeping filleting sized crappie but with bream I DEFINITELY use my Rocket fish basket you pull behind the boat. I keep 'em hand sized or better and we love 'em on the bone. I'd probably waste too much trying to fillet fish no bigger than your hand anyway.