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Crappie Wall Hanger II
cooking/eating sunfish
I posted this as part of another thread - but I think it may get lost in the shuffle.
Am curious, how are sunfish to eat? I mainly eat crappie and catfish, which I love - but we can get into really good sunfish in the summer when crappie are sometimes hard to get -
I filet all my fish so there are no bones (kids eat too!). Can you filet sunfish the same way and have no bones? The reason I ask is that I've always heard that they are really good but have a lot of bones...
Let me know
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Don't know about others but I too like to filet mine too and my wife and I like brim a little better than crappie or cat not that the crappie aren't fine but I do like the firmer flesh of the brim just a little better. Just wish I knew how to catch them more often.
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Fillet videos
Here's a couple of links to Youtube videos of a method to fillet bluegill or sunfish that I use. It takes a little bit longer than the electric fillet knife method but doesn't waste as much meat (for me anyways)
YouTube - Bluegill filleting technique
YouTube - How to Fillet your Panfish
And bluegill, brim, shellcracker are some mighty fine eating too!! :D:D
Slabmaster
I love Bluegills and Shellcrackers. I filet all of mine because bones scare me. Here's a plate of Bluegills fried to perfection with no bones.
Isaiah 41:10
Crappie Wall Hanger II
Okay, I will certainly be trying this over the summer - at the Lake of the Ozarks - we can catch one after another in the very shallow water behind the dock (between the dock and shore) - some of them are very large and nice (as big as some of the smaller 10" crappie). I think I can probably just filet them with my electric knife like I do my crappie -
Looking forward to adding to the meal! :D
Crappie Wall Hanger II
We don`t filet them, just clean them heads and tail off. Bathed in milk , breaded with corn meal, side dish of fried potatos / onions . mmmmmmmmmmm good wish I had some
Crappie Wall Hanger II
Oh man, don't cut the tails off. Tasty Tasty
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Slabmaster II
If you cut the tails off you are throwing the best part of the fish away !!!
Crappie Wall Hanger
Always Filet Cant Beat The Taste Going To Try Some Tails The Next Time Heard About The Tails To Many Times.
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Originally Posted by danny
Dang Driver, does Mrs Danny know you trying tail!..........LOL
Take your kids hunting and fishing, and you won't be hunting your kids
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