To fillet or whole fry?

**Breambuster** · 04-28-2008, 12:29 PM

I'll eat them both ways, just depends upon how big they are when I get into them. I always keep some whole (around 50-100) just for frying whole and to get the flavor from the meat along the bones and the crispy tails!! I'll do the same with small catfish and crappie as well as long as they are of legal length.

**catman** · 04-28-2008, 03:13 PM

filet em.

**Slipped Cork** · 04-28-2008, 08:18 PM

I almost alway's fillet mine.Occasionally scale,cut the head off and gut with a quick score down beside the dorsal fin on each side.That's the way we ate them as a kid and it bring's back good memorie's for me.

**stinkies daddy** · 04-29-2008, 08:30 AM

I try not to keep any small fish unless they are gut hooked so bad they are gonna die any way, so i fillet every thing i catch. Fast and easy 16 fish probabally tkes me 20 miutes

**Bluegill Bill** · 04-29-2008, 09:12 AM

I do it like breambuster, it depends on the size. Big ones I fillet and smaller ones get cooked whole. I have to fillet for my wife, she never quite learned how to eat around the bones.

Bluegill

**shipahoy41** · 04-29-2008, 10:52 AM

I like to fillet myself. I do not like picking through bones while I am eating.

**Lepomis12** · 04-29-2008, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by john h

dont matter to me if it swims in grease ill eat it

I agree with John.

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