01-19-2011, 01:24 AM
BG and Perch are easy to fillet once you get the hang of it. After a few hundred last winter, I am down to about 35 secs per fish now. I will never clean BG or Perch, and rarely clean a trout any more.
I was gonna mention on the part about trout and running your finger nail down the back bone to clean out the Kidney/Blood, be careful when doing it. Last summer during the first week in July, I was cleaning a few salmon I had caught that morning and was doing just this. Well, I do not know how I did it, but after 30+ years of cleaning fish this way, I ended up running a bone under my finger nail all the way back to the first knuckle joint on my index finger, just a hair over an inch deap. It was just about to come back out through the skin at my knuckle. I pulled it out and went back to cleaning the fish and never had any problems, but it has taken 7 months for my finger nail to get back to normal. The last mark or hole where the bone went through the nail should be gone in about 3 more weeks.
As far as that strip next to the back bone, I always thought it was the main blood vein. Kind of makes sense tho if it is the kidney since I have never cleaned a fish and actually seen normal blood here. It always seemed to be coagulated already no matter how fresh a fish was, so if it is the kidney, that would explain why it is the way it is.
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I was gonna mention on the part about trout and running your finger nail down the back bone to clean out the Kidney/Blood, be careful when doing it. Last summer during the first week in July, I was cleaning a few salmon I had caught that morning and was doing just this. Well, I do not know how I did it, but after 30+ years of cleaning fish this way, I ended up running a bone under my finger nail all the way back to the first knuckle joint on my index finger, just a hair over an inch deap. It was just about to come back out through the skin at my knuckle. I pulled it out and went back to cleaning the fish and never had any problems, but it has taken 7 months for my finger nail to get back to normal. The last mark or hole where the bone went through the nail should be gone in about 3 more weeks.
As far as that strip next to the back bone, I always thought it was the main blood vein. Kind of makes sense tho if it is the kidney since I have never cleaned a fish and actually seen normal blood here. It always seemed to be coagulated already no matter how fresh a fish was, so if it is the kidney, that would explain why it is the way it is.
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