Where have I been all night?

[FinsnFur]

Raced home from a long day at work  to fulfill a promise.

But despite Dad's crabbyness from forcing this into the schedule on a weekday, it all paid off.





Now i gotta git to bed

[Hawks Feather]

Wait Jim.  You need to clean the fish first!

Jerry

[alscalls]

Jimmed again

[frshwtr]

hey jerry, maybe he got the young protoge to clean the fish. if he did i want to know his secret.

[Silencer]

Jim, how do you prepare your pannies ?  fillet ? skin and cook with bones ?  just curious on how others do it.

She looks happy  cant beat that smile

[frshwtr]

i fillet mine takeing the skin off in the process. thats usually how i determine if i want to keep one or not, if it aint big enough to fillet back it goes. momma doesnt like to pick bones.

[FinsnFur]

I fillet everything, panfish, bass, pike, walleye, you name it....leaving the fillet attached at the base of the tail and I use that to aid in the skinning which is the final process of removing the fillet.

Never ate a bone, never put fish on the table with bones in...and never will.
I thank my Pa for the how to. He was a private guide on the Mississippi for many years and taught me ho to fillet leaving all the bones and no meat. Man was he fast at it!  :shck:  Now the kids ask me how I do it so fast.

I can only hope they pick it up, because picking through looking for bones, or watching carefully as you try to enjoy it, plain ole sucks.

When I was 11 my step father made fish for supper that someone didnt know how to fillet. That was the first and last time I ever swallowed a bone. I swear to god I thought I was gonna die. I started to hyperventilate.

My real father showed me how to fillet after that and I vowed to never eat or serve fish that had bones again....or even may possibly have bones...and never have. 

[Silencer]

I always fillet as well, but growing up with the grandparents its always seemed we were pickin through bones.  Never understood why my grandad wouldnt fillet. 

[Rprince]

I fillet every catfish & bass that I put up but bream & crappie always get cooked whole. Pans are easy to eat that way & taste better (in my opinion) whole.

[5 SHOTS]

I fillet everything, panfish, bass, pike, walleye, you name it....leaving the fillet attached at the base of the tail and I use that to aid in the skinning which is the final process of removing the fillet.

+1 when I was about 10 my mother was given some fish that wasn't filleted and halfway through the meal my little brother started to gag and the next thing I knew I was trying to get a hold of a bone embedded in his throat It was only sticking out about a quarter inch. When I got it pulled out it was almost two inches long. 

[KySongDog]

She's got a great smile.  You did good, Jimbo.   

[cathryn]

shes quite pretty.

[alscalls]

Yea...howd that happen.........

[FinsnFur]

The fruit of my loins Al...the fruit of my loins

Thanks Cathryn...she's the youngest and has Dad right where she wants him

[alscalls]

 :roflmao:

[cathryn]

The fruit of my loins Al...the fruit of my loins

Thanks Cathryn...she's the youngest and has Dad right where she wants him

hopefully she learns well from trainin you and is as successful with trainin her husband when she gets one.  things go so much smoother in a relationship  when men just do as theyre told   LOL 

[alscalls]

We missed ya cathryn........

[FinsnFur]

Yeah she was kinda strong with us wasn't she Al?

[alscalls]

I like her.....she's tough on you....