First Mate Filleting Fish

by John Telfer

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First Mate Filleting Fish

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John Telfer

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FAA WATERCOLOR MARK DOES NOT APPEAR ON FINAL SALES
As we finished a day of Striper and Blackfish fishing we began to head into Oceanside, New York located on the south shore of Long Island from New Jersey waters. We began to pack up all of our gear as the boat was moving fast as seen by the wake in the photo that we were leaving. It was at this point the First Mate got up and went to the back of the boat and began to fillet all of the stripers and blackfish we had caught that day. I reached for my camera and caught the First Mate in action filleting some stripers and blackfish from our catch that day. It takes a certain amount of touch to fillet a fish, but expending a little more effort at the cleaning stage is worth it because it means no bones at the eating stage. When you get the hang of filleting, you can zip through a pile of fish pretty quickly, and it gives you a sense of accomplishment that you can do something as well as the old-timers.

Don't worry too much if you don't get absolutely all the meat off the fish when you first start filleting. The idea at the beginning is to get some. If you skin the fish, as recommended, you do not have to scale it first. Obviously, if you are going to use the skin, scale it unless you like to eat scales. Figure 1 shows the basics of filleting a small fish (up to about 5 pounds).
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