how to fillet fish...

screamendrag · Post by **screamendrag** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:24 pm

Well since no one else is giving you anythings ill give you what i can.

Mostly the bait fish i use are greenbacks(threadfin herring), mullet and menhaden. If you looking to make some sort of trailer for a lure or something along those lines simply fillet the fish and cut those fillets into long triangular shaped slices, saving the head to drop to the bottom for those bottom dwelling bastages. The smaller bait fish, a common way to use the "belly section" as u said would be to plug it....simly by cutting the tail and head off leaving a plug of the body.

hope that helps

-Jeff

screamendrag · Post by **screamendrag** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:49 pm

did you need an explaination of filleting?? maybe i misunderstood...

kclancy · Post by **kclancy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:16 pm

i like that site
http://www.capmel.com/how_to-fillet_fish.htm

screamendrag · Post by **screamendrag** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:49 pm

Thats a great site and those are great explainations

One thing to add on the skinning part. Before you cut the fillet from the body leave the last peice of the fillet nearest the tail attached(hanging off by a peice of skin. This makes it alot easier to skin the fish because you can use the fish as a handle to hold the fillet while you run the knife between the skin and meat....

Juno Geezer · Post by **Juno Geezer** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:49 pm

There are many ways to prepare bait, one way for snook is to "butterfly a bait. I use croakers for this. You just fillet both sides from the tail to just behind the gills, then remove the spine but leave the head attatched. Hook it up through the mouth and fish it on the bottom under the pier.