Perch cleaning

Interesting way to clean perch. Did it out on the ice this week, worked darn good when the bud was doing it! Nice way for those smaller metro sized “nice perch”.

very neat!! my kid brother and I use to skin raccoons with a farmall super M in road gear,a fence post and small diameter cable,quick and easy!!

Perch is one fish I like to scale and eat with the skin on. The rib bones are still in the fish on video. I’ll stick to old way.

Looks slick but like buck-slayer says all the rib bones are still there. The amount of time saved cleaning will be made up picking bones out of your teeth.

Meat flakes off I was told. Eat it like corn on cob, instead of a chicken strip.

Filleting off those smaller ones is a very tedious task, if a guy got this method down would seem to be pretty slick. But to each their own.

Tried it on a crappie, not so good.

I like this one

Oh I like that one pout, need to go get some more perch!!

I like this one as well…..

Yep I’m going to be trying that technique on my next batch of smaller perch!

Tried the first way a few times when I saw that video years ago. It works alright. Eating them is pretty easy, especially if you’re used to eating old school pannies.

The second video posted looks like a PIA and a waste of meat. No thanks

For perch I like a Mister Twister and filleting like normal. A panfish or smaller walleye takes around 30 seconds…. No bones, no cutting heads off, no cutting fins out.

I’m surprised you can get an electric on such small fish. I never used one so I wouldn’t know.

Deuces wrote:

I’m surprised you can get an electric on such small fish. I never used one so I wouldn’t know.

10-12″ perch are the “keepers” in my boat or through the ice. Anything under 10″ goes back. A 10″ fish is just as easy to fillet with an electric as any keeper walleye and more efficient than the ways mentioned above (for me).

I’m not interested in keeping a sled full of 8″ perch as portrayed in the video, but to each their own.

Deuces wrote:

I’m surprised you can get an electric on such small fish. I never used one so I wouldn’t know.

The smallest perch I’ll bother to clean is 9″.

9.5″+ are preferred though

Well if you guys would see my OP it mentions good method for those small metro perch. Glad you guys can find those bigger ones, but 6-8″ are pretty decent fish round these parts. Fry up quick and crispy that my kids really enioy.

Interesting way of measuring fish in 2nd video , he called it an 8 inch perch but when he put it on the measuring stick he had the gill at zero not the nose . Total length of his fish was probably 9 or 10 inch

I use my electric on small panfish. Haven’t tried it on smaller perch but 8-9” crappies and small gills it works great.

Rapala has a 9” blade that’s pretty flexible and works well for panfish versus the 7” blade.

Deuces wrote:

Well if you guys would see my OP it mentions good method for those small metro perch. Glad you guys can find those bigger ones, but 6-8″ are pretty decent fish round these parts. Fry up quick and crispy that my kids really enioy.

Fish tacos!

Fish tacos – good

Crappie (perch) cakes – friggin awesome

Deuces wrote:

Well if you guys would see my OP it mentions good method for those small metro perch. Glad you guys can find those bigger ones, but 6-8″ are pretty decent fish round these parts. Fry up quick and crispy that my kids really enioy.

Dude, you’re keeping 6″ perch??