Fish scaler

[FishnLine]

BUT I like the idea of the de-heading and the slit in the belly. I bet they come out clean as a whistle then.

They do. IMO, that's the only way to go. When you get home, there's nothing to do, but put them away.

[joejv4]

I just fillet and skin them nowadays. Every once in a while I get a hankering for whole, skin-on bream and just break out the old fashioned scaler:

then, like the add for one of those drum machines talked about, I become one of those "Fisherman that is tired of the messy cleanup of picking scales off their walls, floors and clothes" and it's back to fillet & skin till the next time I get that hankering.

Where catfish or bullhead are concerned - I'm a bit old school too... I use "fisherman's pincers" like these:


and just pull the skin off.

[PKIRKLAND71]

I am looking for one of these...anyone know where i can get one>

[invertedn04]

you can take a water hose with a 59 cent spray nozzel on it, and spray the scales off . start from the tail of the fish and spray towards the head.

this is the way i do it also.very fast

[T.C.]

Here is one i made out of a stainless steel beer keg, it works great. It does damage the heads and the fins but who eats the heads and finns anyway? I can put up to 75 in mine at one time since it is so large. My motor is a 2000 rpm belt sander motor that is connected to a 30:1 gearbox to slow it down. You can also speed it up more or less by the size pulleys you use. Here are the pics. Too much to explain on how i made it. The basic principal is you want the fish to slide up and then slide back down the barrel. If they are tumbling over the barrell id spinning to fast. The holed are for the water and scales to drain out. The holes ARE DEBURRED on the inside and are very slick. The burrs on the inside DO NOT scale the fish likemost people think. The fish RUBBING against one another is what scales them. That is why you want your speed to be just right so they fish are pulled to the top then slide back down across the other fish, like i said earlier if the fish are tumbling over one another nothing will happen. I have seen them made out of expanded metal as well and alot of people think the corners of the expanded metal scales the fish and it may but it is not needed. The fish rubbing together is what does the majority of the scaling. I leave my fish in for 15 mins and thet are all good. Then cut off the heads and pull the guts out and your done. egg, milk, breading, and then grease.......its all over.

[T.C.]

I now have it on a steel stand and have a plexiglass cover that goes inbetween the motor and the keg to keep it from getting wet. The copper pipe down the middle now had a water fitting so a water hose can be hooked up to it. The copper pipe also has holes drilled all over the inside so the water shoots out in streams and washes the scales out. My pulleys have bearing in the midde so i can clamp down on the copper pipe and it can still spin freely.

[chaunc]

A thread re-opened from 5 years ago...... uh... okay. Might as well get with the times and use a mister twister electric knife blade scaler. It's a set of blades that fit into your fillet knife and you can scale fish and cut their heads off with it. It also fits an american angler knife too. I've been using mine for a little over a month and like it.
http://www.mistertwister.com/catalog...og_page-02.pdf

[T.C.]

A thread re-opened from 5 years ago...... uh... okay. Might as well get with the times and use a mister twister electric knife blade scaler. It's a set of blades that fit into your fillet knife and you can scale fish and cut their heads off with it. It also fits an american angler knife too. I've been using mine for a little over a month and like it.
http://www.mistertwister.com/catalog...og_page-02.pdf

chaunc,
. the mister twister blade attachment is still prehistoric compared to a tumbler scaled. No mess involved at all, throw in the fish, cut it on and walk away. All the scales fall straight down and can be scooped up. No pulling scales from you hair and arms. I have the mister twister scaled attachment and its good for a few fish but mass scaling this is the way to go.

[huntinslabs]

chaunc,
. the mister twister blade attachment is still prehistoric compared to a tumbler scaled. No mess involved at all, throw in the fish, cut it on and walk away. All the scales fall straight down and can be scooped up. No pulling scales from you hair and arms. I have the mister twister scaled attachment and its good for a few fish but mass scaling this is the way to go.

Sounds like it to me!!

[T.C.]

Sounds like it to me!!

You know it Mike, i don't play around, lol