Filleting pike

[gumpy2]

Found this how-to-video helpful...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWyGrV0qao&mode=related&search=

[Macgyver]

Great video clip!! Thats the best how to video I've seen on how to get those Y-bones out.

[empty hook]

Found this how-to-video helpful...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWyGrV0qao&mode=related&search=

  Great site.  Thanks gumpy never been able to do a good job on pike.  Here is a good site for tieing knots  www.animatedknots.com

[Lobo]

Thanks Gumpy,
I think that is the easest method I've seen and a great video. I will be trying it as soon as we get ice and as soon as pike are biting of coarse. I usually have trouble getting thos darn y bones out. Mostly just leave them in and pick them out as we eat.

[Big W]

WOW!  That is a great video.  The guy makes it look so easy.


Big W

[gator_hunter71]

Great video. A sharp knife and practice and your golden.

[Perch Master]

WOW!  That is a great video.  The guy makes it look so easy.


Big W

I use the same technique with the same end result.  The video is an excellent teaching guide and the fellow explains and demonstrates it very well. 

[shawno]

Fantastic...like others have said, this guy makes it look easy!!

Now I have to bring home a pike to practice on 

shawno  8)

[small_minnow]

I was always wondering how to fillet one properly, now I know, great video.
Thanks for passing it along.
                                                 small_minnow

[seaweed01]

Great video, like all the others said, he made it look easy.

[reubenpa]

that is awesome but I have found bones in the tail.....   what do u do with those?

[mormyshka]

eat them!!

[littleoldlady]

eat them!!

That answer is sooooooooooooooo  Canajun, eh!!!

[billybono]

that is awesome but I have found bones in the tail.....   what do u do with those?

  the tail is boneless, your cutting too far towards the head or too deep

  but the 5 filet method is still easyer and faster 

  soo easy they arnet even speaking english, and youll still get it

http://media.putfile.com/5-fillet-pike-method


   billybono

[Tommyboy18769]

yea great timing...just today i have been askin around to learn how to filet one...his other videos are good too...

[CaughtYa]

Gotta get me one of those electric knives. Pretty slick!     

[kdu12]

This is a great video.  Is pike really good to eat?  I have heard some people refer to pike as poor man's lobster.  If that is the case, can't wait to hook into one.

[kdu12]

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[gator_hunter71]

kdu12, Pike ARE good eating, but as you can see by the post, the bones are tricky and a real put off to some people to bother eating them. I know people who won't keep a pike the whole season just cause they don't want to deal with it. It takes a while to get used to filleting them, but it's worth it, and its really not so bad to pick bones out of the cooked fillets. I ALWAYS eat the pike and let the wife n kids eat the gills, perch. There are many different ways to fillet em, it seems like everyone was taught a different way, it depends what works for you. Lots of meat on those gators and fun as can be to catch!!

[Muskie Nut]

kdu12, Pike ARE good eating, but as you can see by the post, the bones are tricky and a real put off to some people to bother eating them. I know people who won't keep a pike the whole season just cause they don't want to deal with it. It takes a while to get used to filleting them, but it's worth it, and its really not so bad to pick bones out of the cooked fillets. I ALWAYS eat the pike and let the wife n kids eat the gills, perch. There are many different ways to fillet em, it seems like everyone was taught a different way, it depends what works for you. Lots of meat on those gators and fun as can be to catch!!

and if you're using Pike to pickle, you don't have to remove the Y-bones.  The pickling salt and brine disolves and/or softens them to where you don't even notice them.

[bigdave1018]

ive seen another way on the smaller pike. they scaled them ist then filleted them like a regular fish. then they made 1/4 inch cuts on the whole length of the fillets before cooking in the hot grease. the grease melts the y bones when cooking. this was only used on the hammer handle sized ones though. hope this helps big dave out. fry them with the skin on.

[dabluz]

I have gone back to the simple method of filleting pike.  That is, I leave the Y bones in the fillets.  No waste of flesh.  I remove the Y bones with a fork.  This way, I can eat the smaller pike and release the larger ones with no regret.

[cavedave]

I assume this would work on pickeral as well. Anyone know for sure?


Thats a great video

[dabluz]

I assume this would work on pickeral as well. Anyone know for sure?


Thats a great video

If you mean grass pike or chain pickerel....a definite yes.  Even for musky....if you really want to.  They all have the same skeletal structure.

[Neptune]

If you mean grass pike or chain pickerel....a definite yes.  Even for musky....if you really want to.  They all have the same skeletal structure.

will work just fine on Pickerel....they are part of the Pike family and are built the same just smaller versions...

[John_BZ]

i just pickle them and let the brine take care of the bones

[Muskie Matt]

Fillet a nice mignon and throw the pike back!     Just kidding....I know most of you guys who keep pike are fishing some of the best pike waters in the country and probably need to have a healthy harvest, here in Massachusetts it seems any decent pike is kept and we don't have all that many to beging with.  The video is very good though.