How to Fillet a Surf Perch
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Here is a short video about how to fillet a surf perch. I'm not expert in preparing these fish and I don't claim to be the best at filleting these guys, but this is just my method. Having a sharp fillet knife helps a lot, and be careful not to rush it. Also, it's best to bleed out your fish so it'll taste better and stays fresh.
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I've been filleting fish for many, many years, and I always "struggled" doing the second side. Leaving the filet on when you flip the fish is so brilliantly obvious that I flushed with embarrassment when I saw you do it. It proves you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Thanks!
Those flushing with embarrassment moments are truly bittersweet.
the only guy ive seen do that....it is pretty epic
Right? I did the same thing. Total AHA! moment
Thanks for the video. Your the first I've seen that actually explained how to get around the bones. I hope you have a great time at the tournament.
Finally someone who shows how to cut out the pin bones. I've never filleted a fish and seen a ton of videos on how to do so I feel confident I can fillet a fish now but nobody shows where to cut the pin bones out. Thank you!
Its easier than you think. I filet all my fish even trout. Just make sure the knife is super sharp. Also it is a lot I mean a lot easier if you do not gut them.
A trick my grandfather taught me also was to leave the cut attached to the end of the tail as a spot to hold when cutting the skin off.
Remove the sharp fins with a pair of side-cutters... I do that with all my rock fish prior to scaling or cleaning !
Side-cutters easily snips off those nasty sharp fins that occasionally have some mild poisons that will cause
your hand to hurt like hades (and swell-up) face-fuchsia-tongue-out
"Side-cutters" a very inexpensive tool that often can be found in thrift stores even cheaper.
Great video ! Liked
best video I've seen on filleting perch.Thank you PK
Thanks, PK, for all of your awesome surf perch videos! I have been watching them all week because I am heading over to the coast to do some surf fishing for the first time in nearly twenty years! I have fished the coast from Rialto Beach to Brookings over the years but it's been a long, long time. And my, how some things have changed! But I've got my new braided line loaded onto my surf reel and a couple of bags of GULP in my tackle box and I am stoked! Thanks again, I will let you know if I caught anything!
Nice, good luck & be safe!
Oh, yeah, I will definitely be wearing my Mustang float vest. Learned about those sneaker waves a long time ago!
Another excellent and very informative video PK. Thanks very much.
Good vid. I'm going to try leaving one cut side intact while I flip it and do the other side. Makes sense and it's the 2nd time I've seen it in the last two days. Unfortunately, I've cleaned a few thousand bluegills in my lifetime without flipping them intact! When you're doing 50 - 80 at a time I think it might slow you down, though. I'd only add one thing. If you keep the fillet connected and not cut through the skin at the end of the tail it is easier to detach the skin from the meat and you won't lose that nice little bite of tail meat that you have to bypass with the knife in order to get a grip on the end of the tail with your finger tip.
Cool, thanks for the tip.
Never thought of this fillet method...Thank you....Cheers Jeff
Great job love the paper bag idea!
Nice job filleting the fish, thanks for sharing this video.
Beautiful job! I always wear a kevlar glove when I fillet fish.
Thank you for sharing, you made it look easy!
Great video. Thanks PK
Great teaching video. Thank you.
enjoy watching your videos. keep them coming pkyi
Nice tutorial. Thanks!
This is very clear and easy to follow. Great job!
Wow!Thanks for sharing.
Really useful video
What blade length would you recommend for surf perch?
are these the same as "white sea perch" "black sea perch" or "barred sea perch"? the one you are doing looks like a barred perch but the dorsal fin is a bit different looking
Hey PK, love your videos! I have used your techniques to catch some very nice red tails on the north coast. Question though, is there an easy way to tell males from females so I can avoid killing the spawners? Thanks!
Yes, right here: ua-cam.com/video/n0-6JRzNi8c/v-deo.html
Where do you get those heavy duty scissors that you use to cut off the fins? Great videos BTW , very informative.
wow those little babies look like they would make great bait!
The best I've seen
Thanx so much.
Question:
Whats the best way to bleed the perch?
Cut their gills.
thanx again
Newbie question after having caught my second surf perch and the first one I kept..... cut the gills before or after bonking them on the head?
After you catch and bleed your fish, do you have a cooler with ice up on the beach that you put each one in before continuing to fish?
I just put them in a bucket, no ice.
I always sucked at filleting fish, would make a mushy mess and leave meat on the carcass. This time they came out nice, not perfect but good enough for fish tacos! Still need more practice! Thank you for sharing!
Will those pin bones come out easy using a tweezers instead of cutting away that meat?
After you cook it, it would be pretty easy because the tissue is no longer connected to the bone. Raw, it's a little harder.
hey pk serious question haha.. do you gut the fish before filleting it????
great vids btw!
For this method, I don't.
Those are some big ol perch
Is Redtail surfperch fishing still easy to you recently? Subbed +1!
Hey PK that is a nice fillet job. Who makes that knife & what model is it ? Thanks
That's a Wusthof Classic fillet/boning knife. Got it off cutleryandmore.com.
Great video! Why do you not just pluck the pin bones out with needle nose pliers? I do that with Salmon!
We haven't had surf perch but why not cook with the skin and then remove afterward?
Some people don't like to scale the fish and a lot of people around here have a thing about skin. Remember when people threw out salmon skin? Insane! :-)
I think on the east coast (USA) many still do that. Of course, those aren't real salmon...thanks for the reply.
A lot of people dont eating the skin . I dont eat it. Yes I have tried it. Im not afraid of trying new thing. Just don't like the texture. You dont loose hardly any meat this way if your good at it.
So pretty much how I filet a bluegill, except for the pin bones. An extra trick--leave it attached to the tail, flip it down, and fillet it back from that flap attached to the tail---it keeps the skin in place so you don't have to try to hold it down with a finger.
Do you filet the fish before smoking or just gut it?
Bong hits the whole time for me!
@@budrollin7557 lmao
I like that knife. What brand/model is it?
It's a Wusthof Hollow Edge boning knife.
great information. thank you. how do you bleed them? lol. I'm from AZ.
Patrick Baca cut their gills
what knife are you using?
looks like a boning knife
bang on PK
Thanks
Seems like such a giod sized fish to end up with such tiny skiny strip of meat
does the skins taste ok when panfried?
Yes, it's very good.
Pk ! They do sell pin bone tweezers, you can buy them at any culinary equipment store, save you from wasting that meat ur slicing off.
Hey Pk, first of all great video! I was wondering what kind of knife is that, and where did you buy it?
Sorry, never-mind. I scrolled down and found the answer. Did you pay like $100 for the knife?
I got it for $75
did you scale it?
I don't scale it when I fillet it.
How do you bleed these perch?
Cut their gills.
Can you make another trout fishing video
I will see what I can do. It's a little warm for trout around here, but maybe one of these times, I'll hit the rivers up in the mountains.
Thanks. I like to eat the fish skin and would leave it on.
No better way than the gutless method. This is how I do my cat fish also.
And a good sharp knife is important. Nothing more frustrating than using a dull knife.
5:46 did you cook the babies too?
NutSack-1 this pregnant female should have been let go.
That 2nd was nice size perch have some fireeeeee ass meat
One of the worst eating fillets in my experience, whole and on the disc in hot pig lard, whole different ball game.
I just fry it whole after removing guts, gills, scales and sharp fins. You get way more meat
... and bones. You can't make fish tacos with bones!
IOK Wasamatau well if you want to just eat fish you pick the meat off the bone. If you want fish tacos i wouldn’t recommend something this small
Bleed it, gut it, head it, and fin it. Cook it whole and pull the bones
Pull the bones????
Everybody talk's about Filleting Fish, but know-body ever talks about a stock pot... 🤔
I know this is an old video but I'm guessing that the fish and game laws must be different in Oregon !!! In California if you keep a pregnant fish, every baby is counted towards your days limit.. Looks like you just filleted TWO pregnant Females. Did you count the number of babies you killed along with the two you filleted ?
How many were you over the limit ???
Hate to be the bad guy here , but folks this is not the easiest or most efficient way to clean surf perch by any means. Everything about this is wrong or the hard way. Good luck and watch other videos for better ways. And use a RITE knife while filleting not butcher/ kitchen knife.
Good process however, you wasted half the fish.
I agree, should peel meat off with spoon and make into little fish balls with breading etc
you lose much meat u r used 2 many or large fish not like so cal
You only lose the meat between the bones and the rib cage, which is next to nothing. Plus, when done right, you get zero bones.