Perch butchering opinions

[tyrant]

I tried it and although I can't get it done in 10 seconds I thought the single chunk made cooking easier.

What do you fellers thing of this method ?

[cooley]

after a bucket full of em you get pretty quick.

[mww24]

that took about a minute and a half. not 10 seconds. i would love to see it done in ten seconds. Ill stick with my electric and go through them fast and get all the meat still.

[CalamityJohn]

He doesn't mention anything about the rib bones.

[mww24]

good point calamity. i didn't notice that. Must not mind crunching them down.

[cooley]

you fry em whole and just fork the meat off the bones when you are eating.

[tyrant]

you fry em whole and just fork the meat off the bones when you are eating.

Evan my three Y/O figured that out

[mww24]

No one ever said we were a smart group tyrant.

[reinhard1]

actualy many years ago my dad used to just scale them, cut the heads and fins off and gutted them. put some salt and pepper in some flour and dust the perch [and walleys] and fry'ed them in butter. very excelent. i did that to some eater walleys this year and enjoyed every bit of it. it's a lot more effort and i wont do it all the time, but it is a treat once in awhile. good luck.

[IamZombie]

I just fillet them like everything else.

I don't want to mess with bones in my fish.

[reinhard1]

Matt, i do the same thing most of the time. back in the days we didn't know anything about fillet'ing any fish. i do fillet my fish 99% of the time but there was a post [trout] by Scudly one time and he had a picture of a cast iron pan with butter and scalled cleaned walley's and i was brought back with many memories of wonderfull meals. that backbone along with the ribcage came right out after frying. and that crisp browned skin along with the tasty meat was and still is awesome. good luck.

[TruthWalleyes]

Its just like eating a bullhead!

I tried the 10s method once last year. But as others have said, i'll stick to the electric fillet knife.

[NCLaker]

I'll do the 10 sec method on smaller perch, otherwise I fillet them up normal.

[dishman]

Pretty cool method, but to keep the wife and kids happy and to have bone free fillets you can't do wrong with the electric fillet knife. With a regular fillet knife it's dull after about 3 fish. Perch are tuff little bastards.

[FISHINGURU]

Where's the video where it takes 10 seconds? The one I watched took him over a minute. That was no faster then the normal way, except when you fillet them they don't have bones.