12-16-12 trout cleaning video
 

I know most know how to clean them upside down...made a night trip with my brother from Austin so here is a cleaning video that illastrates the teqnique that i use, like i said mist know how but here is for the people that PMED me and for the ones that dont know......thanks:
http://youtu.be/ICbrt31rmJI

Ive never tried it that way by cuttin from ******* to head first. Looks simpler

That's what I do

That's awesome thanks buddy. Now if I can just catch some trout to try that on. Lol


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Yep that's how it's done!

Butthole, backbone, head, flip.

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Yep, you get a perfect filet every time. With no bones.

Nice video. (As always)

And cut out backbone an use head and remaing body for crab bait. No waste!

Interesting

Yep....I keep a couple bags of "heads" in the freezer for crab bait.



Slightly different.......After cutting down to the tail end with the knife, I slide the knife blade back towards the "belly" area and flip the meat using the knife blade, instead of grabbing the meat with my hand.

Yep, that's how I roll. If you back up the blade a little after you make the cut along the backbone from head to tail you can flip the fillet back over without touching it. The guides can do it without ever stopping the blade they just change the directions quickly. It doesn't work on redfish of course. How about a good flounder cleaning video. I've seen some dudes butcher a nice flounder and then trow away the white side. HaHa.

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and i put a rubberband around the trigger so i dont have to squeeze it

Thats how i do it, but for the vid i just used my hand to be percise lol.....its hard to do it slow...

saw some guides do it that way a few years ago. once you get a rhythm you can roll through some fish.

Terry Shaunnessy showed me that technique In the early 90's

Go on you tube and search how to debone a flounder. They have a fella from Dularge that shows how to debone it.

yessir!!! Butthole,backbone,head,tail---nothing but trout.

That's exactly how I fillet my trout. Great minds think alike!

So I assume it can be done that way on reds also?

Nope, or not that I have had success with. Reds backbone and rib cage is different than a trout.

Nice

I can clean 60 trout under 5 mins (with all trout with in reach)

Nice vid Chris.......................the real question is how long does it take to skin and clean a squatch?

thats 12 per minute! Is that possible?

And 1 every 5 sec. U a bad dude!!! Make a YouTube vid dub like the redfish cleaner at cocoa marina. I gotta see this. Bet thAt cocoa marina guy can clean(half shell) 15reds before you can clean 60trot. Check tape

Dats sumbad azz knives, and a bit pricey.

Was cleaning trout one day, and guy said you clean a trout about every 5-7 seconds ( that was not trying)

Had Josh time me on 60 trout a few weeks back and it was right at 5mins 22seconds

I remember you said you used a hamilton beach knife. I use em also and just bought another and the trigger has to be pulled back a little and down. It is a pain to do. Are they all like that now? My older one was easy to pull.

PS. I cleaned my catch saturday, in half that time!

You dont, bring it to the taxidermy...

just wondering
 

I wonder if anyone has compared the results of cleaning fish this way and the "traditional" way of filleting. I think I'll try a test next time I go/catch some specks. I will try to pick identically sized specks and clean them both ways and then weigh the resulting fillets on my wife's Weight Watcher's scale which is very accurate (and seldom used for its intended purpose, but that's another story :grinpimp:)

Just seems like there would be more waste cleaning them according to the video, but perhaps I'm wrong.

You are not wrong. If you cut off the belly meat. But fighting that damn swim bladder isn't worth it to me.

You just lose a little meat outside the ribs.
If you bring in a limit, you don't lose much.
It's much faster and easier. No extra time
to cut off the ribs.

On 45 to 60 trout ...... NOT worth the time for a extra trout worth of meat

That swim bladder will screw you on every fillet. The only way to clean trout is just like the video shows. Heck I thought everyone cleaned em that way! It works on bass too!

If you are going to use a electric knife then hamiliton beach is the way to go. I personally like a traditional knife such as
Bubba Blade
Forchiner
Dexter Russel

This one time at spicers I cleaned 100 trout in 12 mins. They were all 8.5 lbs too all caught on the same sparkle beetle.


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You averaged 4.56 to 7.1 seconds a fish, That's pretty good.

Cleaned them with a butter knife too.


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Bookmarked that video. Now I just need to learn to catch fish so I can get some practice cleaning them!

All you gotta do is launch early and follow a Haynie.


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I have never seen that way before. I'll try it net time. looks easier than how I do it now. Thanks for posting the video.

You will never go back to cleaning them any other way.

I agree I showed my neighbor how to clean them like that 7 years ago and he never went back to the other way.

Will it work for reds also?

I have always done it like that. Very fast. Keeps everything together and less mess.


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