A must see video on cleaning the y-bones on pike

This video will teach you how to cut the Y-bones from a pike, any get the clean boneless meat you want. I know I’m sick of learning with just pictures and this will really help out.

http://www.why-fish.com/

I see people are viewing this, let me know what you think.

I’ve had a sheet of paper laying on my desk for…years. Couldn’t figure it out from the paper…of course I didn’t have the paper with me when I was cleaning my snot rockets. The video is what I needed and it looks easy! My wife is now going to be able to actually eat some of the pike that Catten Addict gives me…

Good info. I clean a ton of snot rockets for guide customers in Canada and here. I leave the skin on, and make the cuts on both sides of the Y bones. You can then grab them and zip them like you do a walleye! Then skin them like you normally would. Try that as well…

Or smoke them with the skin on. MMM good.

LC I’m with Brian I’ve looked and looked at pic of how to do this ansd finally just gave up and took them out after cooking them. But now thanks to you made my non bone eating days easier thank you for the link…I’m more of a hands on/visual guy too.

Very informational and helpful. I learn better from watching rather than trying to read about it and figure it out from there.

Another option is to leave the bones in and pickle ’em. It’s awesome!!

Thanks I will give it a try this weekend. Good info

thanks, now i can spend a little more time filetting, and then spend less time picking bones out, and woofing em down !!!

big g

Here is another tip. With the pike you decide to keep, clip the gills and bleed the fish out in your live well then put them on ice. No blood on the cleaning board and the filets will be clean and white. (Same of Eye’s too)

-J.

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Here is another tip. With the pike you decide to keep, clip the gills and bleed the fish out in your live well then put them on ice. No blood on the cleaning board and the filets will be clean and white. (Same of Eye’s too)

-J.

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Does that procedure work for bass also?

Thanks for info. I love to catch pike and have cleaned them a little different, but this looks easier. Thanks again for the info.

I’ve been doing it quite similar for years. I found if you are going to transport the fish(You must only have two fillet pieces per fish) leave the skin on until after removing Y bones. Also scrape bone ends with knife to make them easier to see.

Where was that video 20 years ago when I learned that technique the hard way? Good info.

Good info. I like the way Tuck does it also. Fire up the camcorder Tuck and start zipping some out for us to see.

I was with on a few trips to Canada with Tuck and watching him zip those out with a cold Labatts blue in hand was a real treat.

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Good info. I like the way Tuck does it also. Fire up the camcorder Tuck and start zipping some out for us to see.

I was with on a few trips to Canada with Tuck and watching him zip those out with a cold Labatts blue in hand was a real treat.

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No. The cold LaBatts was in YOUR hand! These clowns would drop their fish off at the fish cleaning house door, and go up to the cabin and pop tops! Thank God for electric knives!

My mentioning above about doing it with the skin on was in reference to how we had to do it in Canada for transport. Good point. Both ways work great! Big D, get out there and catch me some slimers! I’ll clean ’em!

(Gotta love modern technology! Driving down 212 to South Dakota, and talking about Y bones on IDA!)(Actually I am a passenger! )

Slick! Now that is what I call technology on the cutting edge!

Tuck, when you hit the S D border on 212, you are about 10 mles from where I was born and raised. You should be able to smell the lingering odor of Christmas lutey. In fact, if you turn right at the stop lights west of Dawson and go 5 miles north to Madison, you will be in the lutey capital of the U. S. More lutey eaten per capita than anywhere in America. 20 ft statue of a cod fish right along the highway.

There was a one toothed guy holding a sign hitch hiking his way to Cottage Grove…

Looked like a Lutey Luvr!

Ish

Was he wearing an orange jacket with a bottle of schapps in the other hand?

Yep.

Hey, you two clowns. I still have my teeth. Well, at least most of them.

What??? Did you say BOTH of them? Speak up!!! And stop spittin’!

Question for your electric knife guys….

Is there more waste with the electric over the manual powered knife?

Brian, in my case, I would say less waste.

Once you get the hang of running the electic, you can have a eater done in no time. I go right through the rib cage and almost to the end of the fin, leave just enough on the end to flip the filet over, so the skin is down, meat up, but still attached to the fish. Run the knife between the skin and meat. Then just cut out the ribs.

Done.

Anyone who has seen me clean fish with an electric knows you can read a news paper through what is left.

Not bragging, but the truth.

When I am the surgeon they are are about they are about equal, however, I have come to favor the electric knife, in fact, I just received my new Rapala cordless, rechargeable knife!

Does anyone use a fork (for your left hand)?

Not me, as I can’t stand the sight of blood, I hold my left hand over my eyes! This means I can do equally as well using a hatchet or a knife to fillet fish!