How To Get The PERFECT Walleye Fillet EVERY Time! 

This totally makes sense. I've always lost meat with the ribs. I will adopt this method. Thanks!!!

This looks like the easiest way to get the ribs and the pin bones out! Great idea!

And here I've been carving the ribs out from the other side trying to angle the knife upwards while holding it down. This looks so much easier, gonna try this for sure. Thanks for sharing!

Amazing…I just tried this on two nice 17 inch filets…worked perfectly. I always hated trying to just cut out the ribs as I usually ended up losing the whole rib section of the fish.

That does look like the best method I've seen so far

Can’t wait to give this a try. Looks like a great method.

This is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks man! I clean alot of fish and get the bones out with a normal amount of meat... but this maximizes!!! Thanks again!!

Excellent video

I have filleted thousands of walleye in my life and this method for removing rib bones and pin bones is pretty slick I'll have to try it thx

Thanks, now I just need to catch some Walleyes.

Man I miss Wisconsin and Walleye. Great fillet technique and bleeding out the fish, any fish, is key to clean and non-fishy meat. Like the flipping of the fillet and skinning, leaving the carcass with zero meat left and just clean fillets. Nice knife work.

That’s sweet do you have any videos on how you clean up your cutting board and knife before and after you clean your fish and thanks for all the great videos man

Wouldn’t zippering off the pin bones down towards the tail to point where the pin bones stop leave more flesh on the fillet after you slice off the rib bones? Great tips! Can’t wait to teach my grand kids on how to prepare their catch! Have you tried the iki jime ( Japanese method )?

Cool video. I'm headed up to northern Ontario for crown land walleye. I am going to try this method.

Excellent Video man, big thanks 👍 Okay so each to their own right. But my dad always felt every fish deserved our respect, and was a gift of life, regardless if you believe in a creator. So after a beautiful clean like that, we saved the Spinal area to the tail, cut in half.. Pike or Walleye. And we call them Jiblets. I mean we really rinse them clean and fry with oil and Cajun.. but give it a try, lots of excess meat in there, and lots of bones, but it falls apart after cooking with a simple fork.

Works pretty good, tried your cornflakes/ pancake mix, pretty darn yummy. Love your videos, keep them coming 👍

Lots of great info! Well done. Thank you

awesome!!! thanks a bunch for this tip! will have to try this one out, but first need to catch some zander...😅 kind regards from sweden (the land of no walleyes, but zander is about the same, especially in regards to processing for food) /peter

Well done !

Thank you for this tip. Genius!!!!!!!

Thanks for the video. Great way to remove bones.

Awesome method. 🤝

Super slick. Thxs for posting that

Cool the only thing I do different is I curve harder up above the eye on the first cut, the filet looks like it has a point on it.

I believe PK lures has a similar video on RU-vid and ya for me it's the best way to fillet walleye

Hey, that’s pretty cool. Going to try this method

Wow that’s awesome I’m definitely trying this

Thanks for sharing your video

Wow. Never saw anything like that. Great.

Awesome. Ill have. To try this

Excellent!

I do everything you do until 4:38. Instead of cutting the lateral line out, 'zipper' it. Make 2 cuts in the tail about 3/4" long on either side of lateral line. Holding the top part of fish slowly pull the lower c/w lateral line. The top part of filet comes off in 1 clean boneless piece. Repeat the process with the lower part of filet, slowly pull lateral line off lower filet. No blood, bones or lateral line make the best tasting walleye meal.

Great video! What filet knife do you prefer to use?

very good thank youy very much. can you show with a pike? thank you

perfect thank you ! but dont forget the cheek and the vicking helmet ...

What other species would this method work with? Perch? Bass? Crappie? Pike?

Just had walleye tacos last night.

Do you keep the cheeks or are they tossed with the carcass?

For nice fillets cut on both sides of the blood line and then pull, call it zippering the fish

If you zipper that fillet when ur done, the only thing ur left with is only clean white meat. I’ll give this a try but will continue to zipper after ribs are gone.

I do this with perch

Does that work for all pike?

This is how I was taught lol

Walleye is the easiest fish to fillet - anyway you do it!

This is how I fillet my walleye, but I don’t do the belly cut. I learned from a native in northern Ontario.

For trout too?

I dont get what the belly cut is for?

What about the cheeks and the wings?

Interesting

Thanks but you forgot the cheek muscle

Where is the bleedi g out video? I cant find it

This is how my grandpa cleaned walleye...minus flipping the fillet over.

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I have been deboning my walleyes like this for over five years, so this is nothing new!!

nice, but you forgot to get the cheeks

Don't forget the cheeks a.k.a freshwater scallops

What about them cheeeeeeks

You forgot the cheek meat

OHHHH WOWWWWWW. Only the 10,000th filleting tutorial on YT. Did you go to Harvard or Yale?

Not quite perfect tho!! I keep going on final step and take all the Red/lateral line out! If your going to try and make the best filets ever get all the Red out,,,

I filet with even LESS WAIST THAN this method

The Belly meat cut wasn't necessary in this particular method 🙄

No Cheeks??? Or pectoral meat??? 😢

It's not "walla", it's "Voila". It's a french word which translated means "See there". And you wasted all that good belly meat.

That’s how green horns do it

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