How to fillet Walleye - Walleye Cleaning
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Hello again folks. This week we'd like to present to you another great video, this time on how to fillet those delicious walleye.
Cleaning (or filleting) walleye does not have to be a tricky thing to do. And here we even show you how to get an extra tasty treat from the walleye!
As always, good fishin'!
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You know he's a Jedi-Level fish processor when you watch a video of a guy fileting fish with his sleeves still buttoned at the wrist!
@Bill Brasky ok Jedi do a video yourself then. He only wasted a teeny bit of belly meat. Big deal
@Bill BraskyYou must be one of those legends in your own mind huh?
@Bill Brasky I bet this guide has cleaned more walleye than you will ever catch in your life
@@nicke5056 dude he was giving him a compliment 😂. Jedis are elite. He’s saying he did all that without even having to roll up his sleeve and didn’t get it dirty
Except pin bones went remove
I ordered two of these based on the reviews. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxqmKabisEv81ul5v7OhvVxxOpt2CJruI- Received them on time and they look good. I really like the handle on these knives as they feel good in my hand. I'm giving them 4 stars on look and feel, but have not had the chance to put them to the test yet. I mostly fish for catfish and can hopefully try them out in the next few days. If they hold an edge throughout a limit of catfish, they'll be worth another star.Update...I used the 9" strong and the 9" fillet on a mess of catfish. I did put a sharpening on these before I started. I want a razor edge to fillet fish but they weren't quite that sharp. The people who gave these knives crappy reviews and said they were sending them back was because they weren't razor sharp. So what, do they not have a knife sharpener?? Good grief! I mean you have to sharpen any knife from time to time.I personally like them and am pleased with them. If you're too lazy to sharpen a knife then hire someone to clean your fish lol.I've never bought a knife in my life that would shave hair right out of the box. Don't be afraid to purchase the knives. They're pretty nice in my opinion.
So glad you enjoyed this walleye filleting episode and thanks for taking time to write to us :)
As others have mentioned those fillets still have the pin bones in them. Easy to cut out, you just feel for them(located middle of fillet) and then slice along each side and pull the little slice of flesh/bones out. You end up with 4 strips instead of 2 fillets though.
Walleye skin tastes great too, I scale mine then take the fillet off, remove the pin bones making sure not to cut through the skin. It leaves the fillets whole, gets rid of bones/dark meat and skin fries up nicely.
Thanks for making this vid
Fish is what I’ll be living off of in college
Thanks for being entergetic and passionate
Caught my first Walleye today!!25 inches long!
Caught a 20 incher tonight , my boy caught a 15 incher thankfully lol
I'm not a particularly skilled fisherman, but I am absolutely mesmerized by these videos. Subscribed.
+Stephen Jannetti Hi Stephen - so glad you are enjoying our videos and welcome to our family of subscribers :) Fall is just about upon us and that means more great fishing
Thanks for the nice compliment and for taking time to write to us. Hope you are having a great year on the water :)
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for tuning in - when we go around the rib cage, we are able to avoid the bones :)
Thanks for taking time to write to us and we hope you are having a great year on the water and enjoying your summer!
I cut this exact same way and avoided the pin bones just fine.
Finally someone making use of those cheeks, tbh that’s the best part
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for writing in - until next time, good luck and good fishing!
If you are trolling, the Viper Spoon rigged with a live night crawler is like a walleye magnet! If you are jigging, suggest using a black/red buck tail jig or a jig and twister tail combination.
Good luck on your trip!
So glad you are enjoying our videos and sounds like you are having some great day so the water and some nice fish fry's as well :)
Thanks for sharing this, Ivo! By far the most effective and easiest method I've found for cleaning and filleting a Walleye!! For those wondering how to remove the pin bones...after removing the skin (set your fillet skin-down, cut a notch in the tail, then angle the knife toward the skin slightly, then slowly cut the fillet from the skin), feel for the pin bones with your fingertips and cut along the pin bone line on both sides (the pin bones will end by the tail section, there are no pin bones in the tail piece), making a thin V-shape in the fillet. Should leave your fillets 100% skinless & boneless. I've found this method to be the easiest, by far, and you'll get nearly all the meat off the fish once you've gained some experience. A sharp, 7-inch fillet knife is a must for Walleye. Avoid using overly-large fillet knives, Walleyes are a relatively narrow/cylindrical-shaped fish so 7 inch is about as large of a blade as you'll need.
@SereneSkyline Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for taking time to write to us - hope you have a great year on the water!
@MrBlizacane Glad you enjoyed the video and that we were able to help - the checks are absolutely delicious and we hope you catch plenty of walleye this year!
@ixkey Glad you liked the video & thanks for taking time to write to us - until next time, good fishing!
@Jayzc66 glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for taking time to write and for tuning in! Until next time good luck and good fishing!
Glad you enjoyed the video and that we were able to help - congrats on your first walleye and hope you catch plenty more :)
Glad you enjoyed them and good luck on the water!
Nice video! I watched this like 6 times already and still like it. Walleyes are good eating and i fileted my 6.5 lbs last night
Hey ThunderMistLures team, I was at the Suffern fishing show, and I wanted to thank you for the great viper spoon. Good Fishing.
Nice to hear from you Baldi - the Y bones are only at the top of the rib cage, so you can go around them or just avoid the rib meat all together :) All the rest of the fillet is totally boneless. Good luck on the water and thanks for tuning in
I Just took a look at Gods Lake and those lodges - I can see what you mean...absolutely beautiful area and looks like plenty of great fishing with both Pike & Walleye (along with trout as well :)
Manitoba sure does have some great fishing and if I get an opportunity, I'll have to make a trip someday. Thanks for taking time to write back and for the tips on lodges on Gods Lake. I hope you are enjoying your summer and having a great time enjoying our outdoors :)
Thanks for the great compliment & we're glad you like it. Good fishing to you!
thank god someone with a great fillet method.
Hi Chris - glad you enjoyed this walleye filleting episode and thanks for the great feedback :)
@lrecollet Thanks for tuning in and for writing in and sharing.
Thanks for taking time to write to us and glad you enjoyed our video. Thanks for sharing your feedback with us and our viewers. You can avoid the Y bones by avoiding the rib cage meat and we agree with you on the dark meat - we also have a video on how to fillet a bass and we talk about removing the dark muscle meat as it does not taste good :) Thanks again for writing in and it sure sounds like you have cleaned many fish over the years :)
@XxLaOBoyxX89 Glad you enjoyed the video & thanks for writing in!
Glad you enjoyed the video and we'll see what we can do about the knife sharpening :)
It's a joy to watch a pro.
I've been watching some of your videos, again. They are as nice to watch this time as they were the first time. I fixed fresh trout chowder for dinner tonight and thought of you and some of the supper dishes that you have made on video. Have a great evening.
Hi Grant - we are so very happy that you are enjoying our videos and really appreciate the great feedback you give us :) Glad to hear you are doing some home cooking and it sounds like you had a great chowder dinner :)
I filled my 1st walleye following your instructions....it was so easy!!! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed the video and that is a great compliment coming form a chef - thank you and good fishing :)
Great video, just caught my self some walleyes today and this video was very useful!
There are many methods to bleed fish and you are right, cutting the gills is one of them
Thanks for writing in - they really were nice fillets and we had an excellent fish fry that day :)
Glad you enjoyed the video and the key is to go completely around the rib cage and avoid any Y bones. If you cut through the rib cage and try to get that meat, you will have bones
Just got done crappie fishing early this mourning by a local farm pond and the minnow was above them I got 4 large crappie and 6 that were just big enough to keep, thank you for the suggestions thundermistlures!! the crappie are back and biting :)
That was a black sea bass caught out of Buzzards Bay in MA (Beside Cape Cod Bay)
@Governator88 Glad you enjoyed the video :) You are right about the pin bones....they just cook up - perhaps on a big walleye you may want to remove them though.
Thanks again for tuning in and good luck on the water!
i think this might b the best vid on youtube
Best tutorial I've seen on cleaning a pickrel , yet....
Hehe
@True Patriot Idk why they are called the wrong name so much lol
@True Patriot well thought this was a 'safe place' to talk about it...Sorry for any fuddle duddy....
Loved it! Simple and clear instruction. Thank you for posting.
Great video, just left the Detroit River with 4 nice Walley's! Thanks for the tip, never knew about the "Cheek Meat"!
...great fishing in the Detroit river...sounds like you had a great day on the water and some great eating ahead of you......the walleye cheeks are the best!
I just viewed this before cleaning a nice walleye I caught through the ice. Looking forward to eating those fish cheeks that I would have missed out on, and I am truly appreciative of the time and meat saved by watching this.
When you fillet walleye like this, you do not need to gut them :)
Thanks for writing in and sharing your tip with us and our viewers :)
@Mr1234justin The Y bones remaining in the fillets will soften when cooked & are usually un-noticed when eaten. Thanks & good fishing!
Takes a little bit more time but interesting way of cleaning a walleye. I will try it next time. Cheers from Northern Ont, Canada.
Great to hear from you in Northern Ontario - plenty of fantastic fishing up there :)
***** i wished i lived up north. I always wanted to fish for pike and go icefishing. here in california, we dont have pike or walleye and no ice
Nice fish and great video. I always "zipper" the walleye fillet once the skin is off. Probably the easiest way to get rid of the little bones.
Thanks for writing in Carl and sharing your tips with us :) Good Fishing
Carl Macmillan yup I zipper mine and have a lot more meat than the Canadian style fillet
FINALLY! Someone removes the cheeks! They're the best part of ANY fish(provided that they're big enough to eat). I can't believe people keep wasting the best parts of the fish. It's like filleting a sturgeon and throwing away the caviar. I salute you, friend.
Glad to hear you removed the cheeks and I'm sure that you will keep getting better and better with every walleye you fillet :)
@someting29 We just use a small sharpening tool ... just run the knife through it a few times. Thanks & good fishing!
Wow! That is a sharp knife... Can you make a video on how you sharpen your knife?? I am impressed!! Nice fillet work.
great video sir. thank you so much. keep them coming. any tips on cooking them?
What kind of knife were you using during this cleaning. It looks great do you have a link or name???
Glad you enjoyed the video and hope you have a great time on the water with some nice walleyes :)
@muratdemircanada Glad you found the video useful and thanks for writing in. Until next time, good fishing.
Thanks for writing in and sharing your tips with our viewers :)
we're having a little trouble crappie fishing they don't seem to bite a lot, even a minnow won't get their attention, you make it look so easy can you give me some suggestions to make them bite?
There is a bone along the rib cage, but you can go around it and then down the rib cage - or if you want to really be safe, you can cut around the rib cage totally and take that meat separately.
Glad you are enjoying our videos and thanks for writing in. If you wnat to use live bait, one of the best lures to use is the Viper Spoons and suggest using the SP1 or SP2 sizes. this is the perfect combination of flash, flutter and bait and you should do great with them. Rig them with a live night crawler and the walleye will attack them - check out our walleye videos on line for more Viper Spoon tips!
Thank you very much for the video. It really helped me out last night after my son and I brought some Detroit river walleye home on Monday. One question - can you recommend a good filet knife? Thanks.
....look for one with a strong, but thin blade...
Glad you enjoyed the video Dennis and the checks are the best :)
Thanks for tuning in and for sharing your tips with us :)
If you fillet the walleye in thins manner, it will be boneless :)
Y bones are predominately found ion pike.
Thanks for tuning in and good luck on the water.
This one was about 19" & 2 1/4 lb. Thanks & good fishing!
@spunkster101 It really is that simple, although if you have never done this before, it may not come out perfect the first time, but it really is easy to do.
Thanks for writing in and good luck on the water!
Just watched your video - nicely done - it's obvious you have cleaned many :) I do basically the same and go around that area, basically avoiding those bones.
I'm curious though - why did you not remove the checks? They taste great. I like to accumulate a bit of them and then have a nice "check fry"
Thanks for tuning in - the fillet is totally boneless around the rib cage and the entire tail section. The only tricky area is when you go around the rib cage to capture the belly meat. There are some fine bones on the top of the rib age area which you can go around and then down the belly to remain boneless - if you stay on top of the rib cage, it is automatically boneless as the walleye bone structure doesn't not have Y bones like a pike has...the walleye is more typical. Good Fishing !
Glad you enjoyed the video and we do have an excellent pike cleaning video as well - easy way to get 5 boneless fillets :)
I really enjoy eating the skin on panfish, I've never eaten walleye or fished for them, we just didn't know how to fish for them in my growing up years, but I've taken an interest in trying to learn how to catch them now in my 50's. I don't have a boat so I'm hoping to learn how to catch them from shore. -- I liked the video and the part about saving the cheek meat, is walleye skin ok to eat? -- thanks for the video
Ima sheep Leaving the skin on walleyes is perfectly fine and one of the best times to catch walleye form shore, is the first 2 hours, after the sun goes down - good luck :)
Thanks for the feedback Edward - the Y bones are only at the top of the rib cage, so you can go around them or just avoid the rib meat all together :) All the rest of the meat is totally boneless. Good luck on the water
Thanks for sharing and although you can certainly get more meat off the belly area, we typically try to avoid that area ( and the related bones ) as if there are any contaminants on the water, the fish will typically store them in their fat and their belly meat.
Thanks again for taking to time to write to us and we hope you have a great year on the water :)
Thanks for your feedback - if you go around the pin/Y bones on the rib cage, you can avoid them...or you can just cut around the rib cage. Interesting you say that about the dark muscle meat as I have not heard that before...the dark muscle meat is worth removing for better taste though on any fish :)
@Bmw0524 Actually, walleye are similar to yellow perch as they are in the perch family. Just think of it as a big perch. Thanks!
the Y bones are only at the top of the rib cage, so you can go around them or just avoid the rib meat all together :)
That knife was part of the American Angler Series of knives which I believe came from Cabelas :)
Very similar to how I clean Walleye. The only difference is I zipper them to get rid of the bones and dark meat down the lateral line. Glad you kept the cheeks too, many people don't.
Thank you, I hope my luck continues because I recently hauled in a 6lb pickerel!
Glad you enjoyed the video and we have some very good recipes for you to try. If you get a cahnce, go to our Thundermist Fishing Tips web site - when you get there, you will see a search option on the left hand side - just type in recipe and do a search and a few options will appear - you can cook walleye with any of those methods and the broiling recipe is one of my personal favorites :)
Thanks for the video! Out of curiosity, what brand of knife is that? Looks rather interesting having the serrated back. Is the back for cutting or scaling, or both?
Glad you enjoyed this walleye filleting video and this knife was part of my "American Angler" series of knives :)
Once again a great video, thanks! Do you prefer not to remove the pin bones down the lateral line? Or is a walleye of that size not big enough? I tend to cut them out regardless of size, I know they breakdown/dissolve in hot oil but I don't take the chance.
I was either using the American Angler Series knife - or my rapala :)
Thanks for taking time to write in and good luck on the water :)
Nice walleye and filets. And it's not only good to use a sharp filet knife. I'd say it's essential, but while some other sharp knives could also be used. Filet knives are better for fileting fish, and they're not very expensive.
Great video, I'm new to cleaning fish. What's the most humanely to kill the fish?
Hi ozzy - glad to hear you are getting into fishing - we like to put the fish in a cooler on ice, once we catch them :) Hope you enjoy some great fish fry's
Hi Dennis, If the crappies are suspended (and chances are they are) you want to ensure you are not fishing below them - your minnow must be above them as they feed "up". Keep your minnow lively and you should do well :)
Hi Alec - the checks are actually the best part :) They are delicious!
@Bagelstorm The cheeks taste great & they're nice and firm. You'll like them for sure. Good fishing to you!
Thanks for writing in - the Y bones are only at the top of the rib cage, so you can go around them or just avoid the rib meat all together :)
@crazyheffer93 Yes, we have an actual TV show but this year we will not be on the air as we are looking for more sponsors. If we can find 1 or 2 sponsors to put their commercials on our show, we could go back on the air again......hopefully someday soon:)
Thanks for writing in Kris and all the best on the water :)
Thanks! We try to answer if time permits & good luck to you!
@oplah93 Be sure to use a sharp knife and that the knife has a thin blade and you should find it much easier.
Thanks for writing in and good luck on the water.
@SSMedic The easiest way - and they are delicious this way might I add - it to fry them up in some butter and garlic. No need to coat them in anything, just put them in your frying pan with butter and garlic and fry them - they are fantastic!
Thanks to you, I tried the cheeks for the first time, they were great. Thanks!
You guys should take an ice fishing trip up to Wisconsin! the late ice walleye bite is hot on winnebago!
Great video! I love all of your videos
Ali C So glad you are enjoying our videos Ali and thanks for taking time to write to us :) We have plenty more videos coming out each week :)