The Only NORTHERN PIKE FILLET Tutorial You'll Ever Need!

Do you have a video on how you keep your knives sharp, cause that thing is deadly!

Beautiful Work

learn to file yourselve before teaching others! this is so bad way to file a any fish

Great tutorial, but I'll stick to catch and release, and eat chicken :)

There good eating

Don’t like pike. Walleye a thousand times better

Great video. Good tip about the fatty blood layer. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing your techniques! I grew up enjoying eating northern pike and still do today! Unfortunately I’ve often endured the process of picking my teeth with pike bones!

Great Video!!!!

Beautifully boned, well impressed

Excellent!

Excellent tutorial! 👍👍

What brand of fillet and electric knife are you using?

I just use newspaper. NO TIME to deslime.

For the love of all that is holy. Who the hell would go through such a process in order to filet a god dam northern? Bleed them out? ice them down for 24 hours? add vinegar for 30 minutes? use a scrub brush to remove the slime? hell no. Man up people. It's a fish for christ sake. Get your precious hands a little dirty and slimy and filet the dam thing like your a fricking man. On a positive note. I love my set of bubba knives. Nothing better!

Great job. I can tell that having a sharp fillet knife is key.

Wait a lot of Pike in my day and a lot of other fish. But yeah the dreaded why bones always got to watch out for those less you don't mind chewing on Fishbones

The 'guts' part was gross. Why not fully gut the fish properly before getting it anywhere near your cutting board? The squeegee was not enough in terms of keeping fecal matter out of what you are going to eat.

I never had a problem with pinbones. They are nature's way to make sure you don't eat too fast, or swallow without chewing.

So then isn’t this pickled Pike?

I let the pike hang outside for a few minutes depending on outside temperature. This allows the slime to solidify. Then I roll it in newspapers to remove any remaining slime.

You try to do the y bone cuts, you lose a whole bunch of meat and nutrients, not to mention what you lose from the skin bro..

Im lazy, y steak is my go to. A few Lakota dudes i served in usmc with showed me this hack, faster cleaner, tastier, and no wasted effort.

The slime is antibacterial...

Thanks for the diagram of the bone structure. Very helpful when you understand the orientation of the fillet on the table.

I followed this tip to bleed fish to death before processing and I'm here to tell you that I will do it for every fish I intend to eat from now on. It makes that much improvement in the flavor. I cut the throat at the base of the gills straight up to the backbone. Hang the fish in the water off the side of the boat on a stringer about 10 minutes or so and either put into a cooler with ice until you get home, or bleed the fish when you get home, and then process immediately. There will be way less mess on your table also. I have also seen guys bleed catfish by cutting off the tail and hanging the fish by the gills to bleed it out. Not sure if both methods work for all fish, but the point is that bleeding results in better tasting fish. Period.

Very nice information. Thank you.

Excellent video...much appreciated.

16 minute video on how to fillet a fish need a video on how to fillet a fish is less than one minute it's not brain science everybody

I love guys like this I like details. Thank you.

Wow that's way too much time an effort for such a small amount of meat. I would rather just chase other species as to take 2 hours to prepare 6 fish.

What did you do with the belly pieces??

man great work.. beautiful tutorial.. but for the sake of the video get a clean cutting board & keep it bleached

Good one, thanks!

This was the very best pike filleting video I have ever seen!!! AWESOME Job, Sir !!!!!!!!!

People do everything they can do to eliminate the fishy flavor of fish. So why eat fish, eat chicken. I loke a fish that tastes fishy. Sea fish especially. But every fish has its own flavor and I love em all.

So show how to fillet carp. Thank you.

In the English language, it's not pronounced "filay", it's pronounced "fill it". Ask any British fisherman.

Too much work, too much waste. Learn to eat fish and you will have no bone "problems". Good video though..

I want a electric bubba

What size pike are these? Tried with some smaller ones, did not go well 😅

Option 2 for No Slime - Keep it alive until you're ready in fresh water (empty/fill livewell if it's been a bit) give him a bonk and get right to cleaning and don't keep the skin on lol. They really get slippery when stressed/dead. Northern Canadian at work ;) this was great thank-you. I'm going to pay attention to the pink skin meat.

No the best eating Fish is in Canada we spell it in french doré it so good and Yeah it in fresh water

They have firm flesh if the water is cold ,if the water is warm the flesh is mushy.

That yellow on the table after the first fillet looks like you punctured the gull bladder of the fish.

Just kept my first pike in Wisconsin, I’m from Florida, just finished the video with my wife, looks easy enough.

We usually bring our fish home pretty quickly, after we get done fishing and clean them...... that avoids the slime. We have never had a slime problem. I like them filleted, but I like the Y- bones in. You can cut through the top part of the fish and all the Y-bones poke out at the same angle all in a row.......you pull them all out, In two or three bunches, and then you have all of the meat left, All in one piece. Much simpler. 😊 Thank you so much for your a video. My husband always cleaned the northerns. He died seven years ago and I never did find out how to clean them. Thank you for showing me the parts that I needed to know.

Thank you. I love pike. Very tasty.

This video helped give me the confidence to fillet up some Pike. Each time I keep getting better. Thanks for teaching me!

You throw away more than half of the fish. This is a crime against nature.