A quick easy way to fillet Catfish (Video)

[DTro]

[CarpKing921]

Thanks for the vid.

[Morneau132]

Great Job... I really appreciate it

[harvey lee]

Nice job Darren.

[mainbutter]

beautiful fillets!

I might want to pick up one of those electric fillet knives one of these days.

[MN BassFisher]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing! That electric knife made it look so easy!

[Here-Kitty-Kitty]

"Slap" That was easy

[Big Dave2]

Thats exactly how I do it. When I first learned on cats we used to skin them and gut 'em but thats a lot of unnecessary work in my opinion so now I just fillet them like that. Ialso use an electric knife and it makes short work of them.

[icerube]

Thanks for another great tip dtro, the eletric knife looks like it works rather well. It was nice meeting you guys on sat and watching the fishing clinic. A buddy of mine and I went back out on sun while the info was still fresh in my mind, fishing was good, alot of swing and a miss but we managed to catch a few. Thanks again!!!

[DTro]

Glad to hear you got into some icerube, nice meeting you as well.

I put up that video I took over in the "Cattin the Chain" thread in the St Cloud forum.

[rushing]

You and Vince Shlomi should sell knives for Target.

[aanderud]

Is vince the guy who sells the slapchop?

[rushing]

yep, you're gonna love his nuts!

[mtheis]

You made that look so simple! Thank you! I think its time I step up and buy one of those electric fillet knives too.

[aanderud]

Yeah the electric knife is nice. I'm a recent convert, as santa clause brought me one. You can get em as low as $15 bucks or so, not a bad price considering the other costs associated with fishing (the cost of consumables such as bait and gas will quickly overhshadow that investment).

[harvey lee]

I have in the past looked at electric knives but have yet to pull the pin.

My Cutco Fillet Fisherman does such a great job I just have not seen any great advantage to go with the electric ones.

I guess it comes down to what one is the most comfortable with.

[mtheis]

I am really new at catfishing, so I have to ask this question. What "slot" length would you recommend me to keep that would give me the best tasting fish after I fillet them? After what certain length have you found that makes eating them not as good? Don't get me wrong, I practice catch and release. But I love eatin' them too!

[Brad B]

I seen that method years ago on a Dan Gapen river fishing video but he used a regular type of knife and not a eletric. it does make short work of cleaning cats.

[Scott K]

I dont keep them any bigger then 5-7 pounds to eat. My boat rule is nothing kept bigger then 15 lbs, in which they get a lot of slack if they keep anything even close to that.

[Grant]

methinks the elecric knife may go missing from the kitchen now~

thanks Darren!