Can You Make Walleyes Taste Better? 

Really good video for processing fillets. I agree with the salt water and as mentioned in another comment I add ice to the salt water. 👍

Excellent advice, good video

Yep, always bleed and strip center strip, makes tremendous difference in quality!!

Absolutely makes a difference!! The center piece I save and make pickled with a sweet wine brine and onions..

walleye already are quite scrumptious

I do the same technique soak overnight in ice cold salt water draws blood out and kills parasites good video

Nice job! My process is the same however, in place of salted water, I use ice water. I feel it adds a some firmness to the filets before vacuum sealing.

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I soak mine in white vinegar. That works great

Exactly what I do except bleeding, I knock them in head and throw strait on ice. Cutting out that whole lateral line does make a huge difference, in any fish

There's nothing better, other than a shore lunch, than defrosting your vacuum packed summer caught walleyes and eating them in the winter time.

dude you need more beers because walleyes don't taste fishy at all !

0:05 I’m Wondering HOW IN THE WORLD could walleye taste any better then it already does?

Instead of all the salt, add a couple of tablespoons of white vinegar in ice water. Works great with out all the salt and firms up the meat and drains all the blood out.

Depends where you get em! UP Mich clean!! I've had restaurant Wally on the Mississippi, even as far north as Winona! That was fishy muddy. Bigger fish of course.

There's been alot of talk lately about bleeding out fish and removing the middle section of the fillet. Unless I'm missing something, I've never did either of these and have never had a bad Walleye meal ever...

i would leave them in the salt water brine over night as it seasons them perfectly and takes in the right amount of salt in the flesh which also removes blood and fishy taste but not with that much salt its not necessary, also i add lemon juice to the brine for very oily fish which helps cut all the fishy taste out,works well for sea fish ,lemon really dies the job to remove that oily fishy taste ,i also been adding sugar to the brine which takes the flavour to a whole new level like lobster or shrimp umamy flavor

Just add rebelsixrubs great lakes and midwest fish rub to make them taste great!!

What is a bayygh.

That's how I do it.

frying magic and fry in butter!!

We call it “zipping them” in the northeast.

In Ohio can not do this till get to your permanent residence. Had a game warden let me know this a few weeks ago when at camper.

I watched a lot of videos where they said to bleed the fish but they never exactly showed me how to do it and I want to thank you for showing exactly how to do it so thank you for that but you did not really tell us how to make the walleyes taste better because they have absolutely no taste I thought you were going to show how to spice them up

what about the pin bones?

Walleye that size is too small to worry about all that. Descale and gut. And fry whole.

The best way ,i always bleed them out alive they pump it out better

Winner Winner! Now just VACUUM pack those DEEEELicious fillets, and the neighbors will be begging to cut your lawn for you ... while you fish! ~Tight Lines~

They harvested some walleyes? Where did they get the seeds? How long did it take them to grow? Lol

SALT GREAT FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE!!!

I would suggest not soaking them in saltwater.... if they are fresh you want to taste the fish.... very very quick rinse in cold water is plenty.... just my opinion.... god bless

Kind of like a back strap..lol

Circulatory nerves? 😂

I'm against using an ELECTRIC KNIFE🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 BUT I WATCHED😃😃😃😃😃😃

taste even better without skin????

Better? Walleye r best. Perch gills walleye. Lake salmon

Kind of puzzled by some of the things in this video. First off, bleeding the walleyes in the livewell is a good idea, but this is done so you have less mess/no blood when you clean the fish. It doesn’t do anything for the taste. Walleye is the best tasting fish there is. I’ve eaten many species of saltwater fish and the only one that comes close is Tripletail. And no other fresh water fish can rival the walleye. The center section they cut out does remove the small secondary y bones, but again, it isn’t necessary to improve taste. Most people don’t notice these bones when eating them, but on a walleye over 20 inches, it might help. And, I don’t think soaking the filets in salt water or vinegar etc. is a good idea at all. Don’t wreck the flavor by adding stuff when soaking. Maybe some of these things are done because these guys are fishing polluted water. Don’t know.

I'd rather have a yellow perch filet...any day.

Really. Come on. You're not going to eat it raw. Wheres the good stuff??!?!

Feed those blood veins to a cat!

Thank god now I can stomach walleye. I love bull heads and catfish but walleye are terrible

Waste of time. This is for picky eaters. Might as well smoke it and ruin the flavour all together lol.

So much waste. Bleed em and they’re perfect. This mud vein removal crap is completely unnecessary.

How to make walleye taste better: throw them back and catch a largemouth... YUM!

How to make walleye taste better? Throw that crap out and get you some tilapia!!

MUD VEIN