R. Karl shows you how to Clean & Fillet Freshwater Fish

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I failed miserably on my first attempt at filleting (a 1 ½ lb. Walleye was reduced to a patch of flesh about 10 cm long), but I swore to get better. After watching a good many fishermen and "dock boys" who were experts at the task -- and a lot of practice -- I finally honed my own skills. The pages below demonstrate how I learned to clean walleyes, northern pike, small mouth bass and blue gills; they are some of the best freshwater gamefish I have tasted! rk

Purchase and Download Walleye pdf	Fillet Walleye It was some of the best walleye fishing I have ever seen. More importantly, I saw my first walleye cleaned and filleted by a family friend who I later nicknamed "30-Second Ray"...
Purchase and download the northern pdf here	Remove the Y-Bones from Northern Pike ..."I really love northern pike... I just hate all the bones I always have to pick out of the meat." I never knew how simple it is to remove those nasty y-bones...
	Remove the Skin from Pike Many people have written me to ask if there is a trick to removing the skin from a northern pike... The short answer is: not really.
	Fillet Bluegills ...Panfish go by myriad names – like sunfish, sunperch, copperbelly or bluegills. It's the size and anatomy of the fish that makes cleaning them something of a chore. But when I tasted the results, it was I who was literally hooked.
	Fillet Smallmouth Bass I'm convinced that there is no "easy" way to fillet a smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)- at least I have never observed a way that is any easier than...
	Knives - The Right Tool... My father had always told me that there was always "the right tool for the right job." A wrong or inappropriate tool always led to a poor result at best... and an unfortunate accident at worst...

By R. Karl
rkarl@onthelake.net

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