Man I come back to say thanks!! I knew I was wasting too much and was trying to get filet out like a back strap and taking a ton of time. Quick trip to RUclips and found this video. This is the best method by far and yields the most meat, thanks for the video!
If you have not tried it, do. It's what most commercial fisherman do now. Super fast. Also those Black & Decker knifes are only about $15 at Walmart or on Amazon. Hope that helps!!
Thanks for the video on cleaning catfish. I have learned a lot. You did a great job of instructions. May the Lord continue to bless you and your family. Take care my friend.
My dad was a commercial Mississippi River fisherman when I was young. He skinned the head, removed eyes and gills. Mom made a delicious, simple chowder from the heads and backbones. We just called it fish head soup. Boil the bones and head long enough for the meat to fall from the bones. Remove all the bones, add onions, potatoes, and canned tomatoes. Cook until potatoes are tender. Salt & pepper to taste.
Well, finally as someone makes fish head soup sound not so bad. Never know. Might be something we try in a video down the road. Awesome story, love hearing those and God Bless!!
Best fish soup made Hungarian people. They combined carp and cat fish meat. Both fish fileted from the bones. Than head of fish and ribs cooking one hour. Than that should be strain into bowl. In the bowl will be soup with fish taste and a very little meet without bones. Than,when that get cold,in that soup should be added fish filets. Add paprika and,salt,paper and cook 40 min. The first part when bones anf fish heads cooking called"temeljac"(Serbian). From temeljac it goes to soup after adding meat and cooking 40min. Specialu cutting a little bones on carp and cat fish will made that soup with no bones. In America I didn't saw someone making that soup,,,, but in Europe,specialy Humgary,Serbia,Croatian, Bosinia,,,,, that is delicious. Best fish soup is when combined 2-3 kind of fish. Usuary,carp and cat fish,,,,,and third you can add,smaller fish with a lot bones,and it should be cooked at first cooking For second cooking is only added carp and catfish meat. In Europe every years is organized competition in fish soup.
You and your camera woman are the best to show us how you do your food prep. If this rain slacks, I hope to get back out and catch some of those cats. God Bless and take care!
Daamnnn. Great butching of the catfish ! Great size, after watching this comparison to one i got yesterday make me feel like i shoulda put it back hahaha. I stopped skinning or descaling years ago, only fillet. But i never did cut out fhe belly meat ppl always said dont eat that. Next fish ima do it this way.
Nice technique, flatheads are by far my favorite catfish, and probably in my top 5 of all fish. Even the big ones taste amazing if you get all the red meat off. Think I need to upgrade to a electric knife though 🤔
I usually fillet my flatheads and I save the belly meat for making catfish Bisque because the belly got more fat in it, it adds a lot of rich flavor. I skin and quarter the heads and save the Filleted backs for catfish courtbouillon.
Good video, I would like to know what kind of table your filleting on? Couldnt figure it out, but it seemed to be part of the equation of how you made things look so easy. Thanks!
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 I was also wondering the same question because the fish was not slipping and sliding on you or at least it appeared so. I seem to have a big issue with my fish wanting to slide off the table
Gotcha. They will slide on it, but I just hold onto them. The bigger issue is not dulling a knife when cutting fish up. These tote sides are like uhmw, or Teflon. Any Teflon you can find would work. I think you can buy sheets of it at like Home Depot, or order online. This material works better than wood and cleans up better
With no disrespect, with hundreds of videos now and over 4 years of creating content to try and help other people for the most part, I've probably gotten this comment 5-10 times. We're not perfect by no means as to everyone's standards, nor claim to be. This is a busy world, and we have very busy life's. It's a huge struggle to bring regular content to you guys. I'm gonna say on average we spend $1000 a month through the year just to create content and 12-20 hours avg per long video to bring it to life. We do use speedy methods dressing fish at times culling backbones and ribs, but do the best we can with the time we have and manage to get the job done efficiently and store our freezers with great quality meat while doing so. The trimmings we cull make fish taste nasty at best. We're showing people the best way to put quality meat on their table without all the struggles. This video is and has been a Top 5 performing video since its release and I almost culled the video because it didn't meet my standards. I will say, if I had one fish, and one only, id probably prep it differently. Thanks for watching and commenting, I honestly have no problem with criticism, we're not perfect
Yeah I understand completely and agree with you on many aspects you pointed out. I guess I was raised in an era that nothing was ever wasted. Good luck to you all, happy fishing 🤗
@markdouglas8228 I promise you I was also raised with very little waste. My Grandfather worked for Corp of Engineers. He run the locks on the Ouachita river. My folks grew up basically living off the land. When I was a kid, I didn't get to shoot twice at a squirrel, nor did I fillet a fish. Wasn't a such thing untill I started commercial fishing at 17 years of age. I'd come in with a few more fish than Dad was used to. He would get so mad at me because id fillet fish. Problem was, people got to where they want fillets. Wouldn't buy whole big fish or steaks. Times have changed a lot. When commercial fishing you cut out what you can sell plain and simple, or what market will buy. I finally changed Dad's mind one day when I come in with about 500 lbs of channel cats. Yeah, that's not a lot to some, but it was to us back then. He looked at me and said, "Son, you know that filleting might not be a bad idea". After that he learned how to fillet himself and never looked back. Bottom line is we all are out there doing what we love, enjoying God's creation, and providing Natural food for ourselves or someone else. The alternatives to all those things are just bad. God Bless
No, I do not trim that lining. It fry's up and basically has no taste whatsoever. Only thing it does is makes your slices of meat curl up into a half moon shape. Just think of it as Casing on a sausage, but better 🤣🤣. If they trimmings that off, that means they didn't catch many or they wouldn't have time🤣🤣🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 Thanks. I just subscribed to your channel today and look forward to some COOL videos. I never did, myself and didn't notice any bad taste. But the way some of the "RUclipsrs" made it sound I was breaking some unwritten law🤣.
I’ve got to get me a new electric fillet knife. I’ve got two and they both get hot on me too quick. I spent way too many years skinning and filleting them with a manual knife and don’t really want no part of them anymore.
Damn please recycle the parts u throw away makes for more catfish bait great job and I told you I would be watching big respect from 205 pisces black alpha Male Birmingham Alabama
Ah, you must not have watched the crawfishing video yet🤣🤣🤣. It all gets recycled. I got a belly full of crawfish, and I got the fattest pet turtles in my pond you ever seen🤣
Crawfish season is coming to a close, but we do have one video on footage I'm gonna try getting out next week. Most people buy chicken for bait, but you'll see in the video how we utilize as much as possible from fish and wild game we kill. Keeping it real!!
I'm not gonna dispute that because I haven't tried it, but when we come in with several hundred pounds of fish, we'd be mixing a lot of vinegar and we just would have time for all that. I want my fish either cooked or in the freezer, fast as possible after cleaning. We stay so busy another step just wouldn't be efficient
I forgot to mention that I also add salt to help draw out the blood. I love catfish and find the soak really adds to the experience. I am going to get an electric knife, thank!@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638
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That answer will be all over the board. Many like them the best. Some don't. My personal favorite is small channel cats, but it's probably because we eat so many flatheads. Can't go wrong with either. Blues are good small, filleted, or steaked up IMO. I like em all🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 Thank you for answering me back I live in California and we don't have flat heads here only channel yellow mud cats and bull head cats. But they all taste about the same to me.
We use the Black & Decker Elect knife. I call it a fillet knife, but it's actually just an electric kitchen knife. I've used others that don't hold up as well. We also use Chicago cutlery Stainless knives. They are kinda a boning knife to me
Why is everybody so so so scared of catfish ribs ? They are not small and not hard to navigate after cooked. They do hold a good bit of meat. Unlike perch , crappie and bass, there are no fine bones to accidentally swallow
In central Texas, flatheads are quite a treasure ! My dad would roll over in his grave if he saw how much of that yellow cat you threw in the gut bucket
Nobody here scared of Catfish ribs, we eat Buffalo fillets and they have way more bones. There's no more meat on the ribs we cull than there is on the backbone. Facts are I've been dressing catfish since 5 years old (40 years).
If Flathead wasn't a treasure here in Louisiana, we would not fish for them. With all do respect, we run a pretty clean channel and try to help as many people as possible. We appreciate the views and positive and most of the time even critical comments, but your really trying to bash us over a thin bony peice of meat. I can take criticism as good as the next guy, but we go by the book and have as little waste as anyone in the fish and game we process. I'ma suggest if ya can't find anything positive in our channel, just move on. I reply to everyone of our comments, and after Thousands I've never answered one in this manner because I've never had as negative of a comment 🤷.
Your the type viewers that make it worth it. The ones that follow a channel. Haters don't bother us, hopefully they get a little education themselves. Most just didn't have the experience we have had a young ages doing this stuff. I've been doing this 40+ years, and won't stop till I'm dead, lol. We ain't going anywhere
Pretty often someone says this, however when you come in with 300+ lbs of fish it becomes a matter of using faster methods to get fish cleaned and on ice before it all ruins. Very little waste in our methods
Very little waist this is my method for any catfish any size a crappie a blue gill and the meat in back bone that people call waist is so thin you can see through it . Even skinning a fish you have some waist . But the electro knife is only way to go when you bring in as many fish as I clean also . No comparison
@rue2973 I gotcha. It's more habit for us. It was years before I was shown cheak meat. Never shown growing up. After cutting a bunch out, it just ain't seam worth it to me unless they 30 lbs or so. We catch a lot of flatheads at times and it would be ridiculously time consuming for me to cut them all out. Maybe I'll work on a quick easy method of doing it and show it in a video. We will see. Thanks for your input though, we good with it all, good, bad, whatever, long as we get the input!!
I'm sorry. I explain why we do this method a lot. It depends on number fish we catching. Better to get all the fillets if we got a bunch of fish than them ruining because it took us too long to dress. We do steak them at times, but we also fillet a lot. Also if your selling fish, people just ain't buying bones unless it's whole fryers or Buffalo
Not really. There is very little waste the way we clean our fish. That said if we only had one or two fish and needed it to go as far as possible meat wise we would possibly steak the catfish. As many as we have a lot of times we'd be there all day steaking fish. This video is just one of our videos showing many different ways. We show stealing and whole fryers in other videos. Thanks for watching!!
Absolutely you can. We fillet the blue cat a little different because we don't keep bigger blue belly meat. It gets tough. We go in with the knife right behind the Ribs and down the backbone. You'll see this in some of our other cook and clean videos. Maybe we need to do just a blue cat cleaning video one day. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!!
Man I come back to say thanks!! I knew I was wasting too much and was trying to get filet out like a back strap and taking a ton of time. Quick trip to RUclips and found this video. This is the best method by far and yields the most meat, thanks for the video!
No problem. Glad ya found it and hope to hear more feedback if you staying on board!! Enjoy
My opinion... I think the way you fellet your catfish is the best way I've seen so far 👍🏾
If you have not tried it, do. It's what most commercial fisherman do now. Super fast. Also those Black & Decker knifes are only about $15 at Walmart or on Amazon. Hope that helps!!
Thanks for the video on cleaning catfish. I have learned a lot. You did a great job of instructions. May the Lord continue to bless you and your family. Take care my friend.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed!!
My dad was a commercial Mississippi River fisherman when I was young. He skinned the head, removed eyes and gills. Mom made a delicious, simple chowder from the heads and backbones. We just called it fish head soup.
Boil the bones and head long enough for the meat to fall from the bones. Remove all the bones, add onions, potatoes, and canned tomatoes. Cook until potatoes are tender. Salt & pepper to taste.
Well, finally as someone makes fish head soup sound not so bad. Never know. Might be something we try in a video down the road. Awesome story, love hearing those and God Bless!!
Best fish soup made Hungarian people.
They combined carp and cat fish meat.
Both fish fileted from the bones.
Than head of fish and ribs cooking one hour.
Than that should be strain into bowl.
In the bowl will be soup with fish taste and a very little meet without bones.
Than,when that get cold,in that soup should be added fish filets.
Add paprika and,salt,paper and cook 40 min.
The first part when bones anf fish heads cooking called"temeljac"(Serbian).
From temeljac it goes to soup after adding meat and cooking 40min.
Specialu cutting a little bones on carp and cat fish will made that soup with no bones.
In America I didn't saw someone making that soup,,,, but in Europe,specialy Humgary,Serbia,Croatian, Bosinia,,,,, that is delicious.
Best fish soup is when combined 2-3 kind of fish.
Usuary,carp and cat fish,,,,,and third you can add,smaller fish with a lot bones,and it should be cooked at first cooking
For second cooking is only added carp and catfish meat.
In Europe every years is organized competition in fish soup.
@milantubic229 sounds good!! ☺️
@milantubic229 I'm not gonna knock it cause I ain't ever tried it!!!
Great video. Very efficiently done with or without electricity!
Thanks, appreciate it!!
You and your camera woman are the best to show us how you do your food prep. If this rain slacks, I hope to get back out and catch some of those cats. God Bless and take care!
Thanks!! I do have a pretty good camera woman!!! 🤣🤣
That's about the best video Ihave seen on how to clean a good size catfish. Appreciate you sharing with us.
Thanks for watching, Stay Tuned!!
Papaw used to make us skin every one of em….not a chance today 😂😂😂 electric knife for the win
Man don't I know that's the truth. Dad would chew me out for filleting. His later years he saw it my way🤣🤣
This was a really good video. Gave me a different perspective on how I clean them.
Thanks!! I like seeing how other people do too. After all these years, I still pick up stuff
Another great instructional video
Thanks Robert, appreciate the Follow!!
You helped so much on my first catfish thank you, ain’t look as good but practice makes perfect
No problem, thanks for watching!! And good luck in future
Daamnnn. Great butching of the catfish ! Great size, after watching this comparison to one i got yesterday make me feel like i shoulda put it back hahaha. I stopped skinning or descaling years ago, only fillet. But i never did cut out fhe belly meat ppl always said dont eat that. Next fish ima do it this way.
For sure don't miss the belly on a flathead. Big blues get tough, but not flatheads!!
Them subs are steadily climbing!!! Awesome sauce brother!
Thanks!! Takes you guys
I love flathead fee-lays. Excellent eating! Nice video.
They sure fine!!
Best job I’ve seen on RUclips by far very good very little waste!
Thanks, appreciate it, and glad you enjoyed!!
I can't say enough about having a quality set of skinners.
Amen!!
I think flatheads taste so much better other catfish my opinion. Good instructional video. Yes you do have a great partner.
I'm an equal opportunity eater🤣🤣🤣. I like em all at different times. I get tired of one I just go to another. Keeps it new🤣🤣
Why don’t Yaw”ll eat a cheek meat it host a couple tasty nuggets?
Get asked that a lot. Guess we just never grew up doing it. I have on bigger fish. Maybe we will in some future videos take some out and fry them up!!
Best cleaning video I've seen!
Thanks, really appreciate it!!
Nice technique, flatheads are by far my favorite catfish, and probably in my top 5 of all fish. Even the big ones taste amazing if you get all the red meat off. Think I need to upgrade to a electric knife though 🤔
For sure it's fast and easy. Right on Q about the table fare!!! Thanks for watching
Thats some good eating right there.. Thanks for the vid man! Definitely gonna get me one of those electric knives!
They the best bang for your buck. I think you can get off Amazon still
Best one I've seen yet
Thanks, appreciate it!!
Great job showing how to filet catfish. I'll be trying to get some more catfish soon brother. The craving is getting strong!
Get after em, they starting to run a little!!
Nice demonstration. Tha k you🙏🏿🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!!
Thx my Man...next time I will try how you cut it...
Takes a little practice, but it works!!
The scraps make great fertilizer for your garden. Therefore, there is no waste.😊
Can't dispute that, only problem is I don't have a garden this year🤣
Nice work bro, keep it up. Looking goooood. Wade Out.
Thanks!!!
Fascinating and informative. I had fun watching!
Thanks
This is why I like crappie lol.
I like all of them
Always learn something from your channel. 😀
You sure? Im not sure you learning from us. You can probably teach us some things🤣🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 maybe. We’ll just try it one day
Fee-lay….i love it!
Lol, got me nailed
Cool Video, definitely gona filet my cats like this on the next run👍🏻👊🏻
Takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it you can roll!!!
Enjoyed the video my friend. You did a good job
Thanks!!
😎Nice and clean video👉🏽👍🏽
Thanks!!!
Great contenet, may the Lord bless yall
Yes sir, Thanks Much!!
Your vidieos are the best. You do it right
Thanks!!! Be patient as we get back to them, spending a lot of time in the woods hunting right now!!!
Another great cleaning video
Thanks, y'all keep it real!!
I subscribed because of your accent.
We'll take it, glad your on board!!! Enjoy the ride
I usually fillet my flatheads and I save the belly meat for making catfish Bisque because the belly got more fat in it, it adds a lot of rich flavor. I skin and quarter the heads and save the Filleted backs for catfish courtbouillon.
We just fry that belly meat up!!
Awesome 👏
Thanks!!
Great tutorial
Thanks!!
Nice job 👍🏽
Thanks!!
Good video, I would like to know what kind of table your filleting on? Couldnt figure it out, but it seemed to be part of the equation of how you made things look so easy. Thanks!
Lol, it's just a homemade table with a piece of Teflon I cut out of a Teflon tote. Been using it 25 years. Nothing special
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 I was also wondering the same question because the fish was not slipping and sliding on you or at least it appeared so. I seem to have a big issue with my fish wanting to slide off the table
Gotcha. They will slide on it, but I just hold onto them. The bigger issue is not dulling a knife when cutting fish up. These tote sides are like uhmw, or Teflon. Any Teflon you can find would work. I think you can buy sheets of it at like Home Depot, or order online. This material works better than wood and cleans up better
Dont forget the livers. If you like chicken and turkey livers ,catfish livers are the best. Bigger the catfish the better the liver.
Hmmm, I'ma have to try that. Never have
Thanks for the education :)
Thank you for watching!!
Best way to skin em right there. I need to go limb lining and catch some more.
Limb Lining will definitely put em in the boat!!
Awesome.
Thanks!!
I hated skinning cats when i was a kid. In the 70s we just had pliers and that was such a PITA.
Lol, it's easier now!!
Great video! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!!
Great video. Thanks
Thank you for watching!!
Very nice job!
Thanks, Appreciate it!!
Like when you show how you skin a catfish
Thanks Taylor, appreciate the input!!
👍👍👍👍Great video!!
Thank you for watching!!
so cool brrother
Thanks, more coming soon similar subject
Didn’t know there was a huge chunk of meat on top them ribs. Thanks!
No problem, Flatheads got neat everywhere🤣. Thanks for watching
Thank you!
Thanks for watching
Yeah I agree, too much fish is wasted!!
With no disrespect, with hundreds of videos now and over 4 years of creating content to try and help other people for the most part, I've probably gotten this comment 5-10 times. We're not perfect by no means as to everyone's standards, nor claim to be. This is a busy world, and we have very busy life's. It's a huge struggle to bring regular content to you guys. I'm gonna say on average we spend $1000 a month through the year just to create content and 12-20 hours avg per long video to bring it to life. We do use speedy methods dressing fish at times culling backbones and ribs, but do the best we can with the time we have and manage to get the job done efficiently and store our freezers with great quality meat while doing so. The trimmings we cull make fish taste nasty at best. We're showing people the best way to put quality meat on their table without all the struggles. This video is and has been a Top 5 performing video since its release and I almost culled the video because it didn't meet my standards. I will say, if I had one fish, and one only, id probably prep it differently. Thanks for watching and commenting, I honestly have no problem with criticism, we're not perfect
Yeah I understand completely and agree with you on many aspects you pointed out. I guess I was raised in an era that nothing was ever wasted. Good luck to you all, happy fishing 🤗
@markdouglas8228 I promise you I was also raised with very little waste. My Grandfather worked for Corp of Engineers. He run the locks on the Ouachita river. My folks grew up basically living off the land. When I was a kid, I didn't get to shoot twice at a squirrel, nor did I fillet a fish. Wasn't a such thing untill I started commercial fishing at 17 years of age. I'd come in with a few more fish than Dad was used to. He would get so mad at me because id fillet fish. Problem was, people got to where they want fillets. Wouldn't buy whole big fish or steaks. Times have changed a lot. When commercial fishing you cut out what you can sell plain and simple, or what market will buy. I finally changed Dad's mind one day when I come in with about 500 lbs of channel cats. Yeah, that's not a lot to some, but it was to us back then. He looked at me and said, "Son, you know that filleting might not be a bad idea". After that he learned how to fillet himself and never looked back. Bottom line is we all are out there doing what we love, enjoying God's creation, and providing Natural food for ourselves or someone else. The alternatives to all those things are just bad. God Bless
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Thanks for the cool video and lessons. I see a lot of people trimming the lining from the inside of the belly. Do you trim it off?
No, I do not trim that lining. It fry's up and basically has no taste whatsoever. Only thing it does is makes your slices of meat curl up into a half moon shape. Just think of it as Casing on a sausage, but better 🤣🤣. If they trimmings that off, that means they didn't catch many or they wouldn't have time🤣🤣🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 Thanks. I just subscribed to your channel today and look forward to some COOL videos. I never did, myself and didn't notice any bad taste. But the way some of the "RUclipsrs" made it sound I was breaking some unwritten law🤣.
Thanks. Interesting.
Thanks for watching!!
Pretty good skinnin
Simply put🤣, Thanks for watchin
I’ve got to get me a new electric fillet knife. I’ve got two and they both get hot on me too quick. I spent way too many years skinning and filleting them with a manual knife and don’t really want no part of them anymore.
About $15 for that Black & Decker and it will outlast most. You know I go through some fish. Get you two and your set
Thanks
Thank you!!
Damn please recycle the parts u throw away makes for more catfish bait great job and I told you I would be watching big respect from 205 pisces black alpha Male Birmingham Alabama
Ah, you must not have watched the crawfishing video yet🤣🤣🤣. It all gets recycled. I got a belly full of crawfish, and I got the fattest pet turtles in my pond you ever seen🤣
We use a lot of those trimmings for Crawfish bait
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 oh OK I'm with that I was thinking about catching more catfish hell yeah show us that also real talk
Crawfish season is coming to a close, but we do have one video on footage I'm gonna try getting out next week. Most people buy chicken for bait, but you'll see in the video how we utilize as much as possible from fish and wild game we kill. Keeping it real!!
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The film on the belly meat do you trim it or keep it.
I know some people trim it, but I don't. It don't hurt a thing, just makes those pieces curl up.
What brand skinners do u use ? I clean my fish on the river bank before I leave.
I'm not even sure on that. Some are better than others, but any bait shop, Walmarts, or bass pro would have them.
Maybrun stainless are the best I've ever used. I use them on pork ribs too.
Thanks, we'll check those out
That ol opp belly the finest eating
Hard to beat for sure!!
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 yes sir my favorite piece of fish. Right behind the opp belly is a good ol buffalo rib
Now we talking!!
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 indeed ol buddy
Nice feelays
Yes sir!!
Instead of cutting out red meat and removing some white eat with it some people soak the fish in ice water and white vinegar.
I'm not gonna dispute that because I haven't tried it, but when we come in with several hundred pounds of fish, we'd be mixing a lot of vinegar and we just would have time for all that. I want my fish either cooked or in the freezer, fast as possible after cleaning. We stay so busy another step just wouldn't be efficient
I forgot to mention that I also add salt to help draw out the blood. I love catfish and find the soak really adds to the experience. I am going to get an electric knife, thank!@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638
I like the back and rib meat.
I do like the backs. I guess if we didn't catch so many, I'd keep the ribs.
Put some on the fire for me, I’ll be over round sundown!
Lol, they gone already!!
That fee lay looks good
Most peoples favorite right there!!
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Do the flathead catfish tast better than the blue cat or channel.?
That answer will be all over the board. Many like them the best. Some don't. My personal favorite is small channel cats, but it's probably because we eat so many flatheads. Can't go wrong with either. Blues are good small, filleted, or steaked up IMO. I like em all🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 Thank you for answering me back I live in California and we don't have flat heads here only channel yellow mud cats and bull head cats. But they all taste about the same to me.
@KathyReek-gj7fl No problem, we always try to reply back!! Sorry you don't have Flatheads. Y'all missing out, lol
Man put the flats back
So they can die of old age or gobble up all them perch, naw
Follow the inside of the ribs out and ya double the size of your piece of belly meat (just sayin) 😊
Thanks!! I do that some times. Some times we just in a rush or more focused on camera angles. My maybe I slipped🤣
Looks like you're using a boning knife rather than a fee-lay knife.
We use the Black & Decker Elect knife. I call it a fillet knife, but it's actually just an electric kitchen knife. I've used others that don't hold up as well. We also use Chicago cutlery Stainless knives. They are kinda a boning knife to me
Why is everybody so so so scared of catfish ribs ? They are not small and not hard to navigate after cooked. They do hold a good bit of meat. Unlike perch , crappie and bass, there are no fine bones to accidentally swallow
In central Texas, flatheads are quite a treasure ! My dad would roll over in his grave if he saw how much of that yellow cat you threw in the gut bucket
Nobody here scared of Catfish ribs, we eat Buffalo fillets and they have way more bones. There's no more meat on the ribs we cull than there is on the backbone. Facts are I've been dressing catfish since 5 years old (40 years).
If Flathead wasn't a treasure here in Louisiana, we would not fish for them. With all do respect, we run a pretty clean channel and try to help as many people as possible. We appreciate the views and positive and most of the time even critical comments, but your really trying to bash us over a thin bony peice of meat. I can take criticism as good as the next guy, but we go by the book and have as little waste as anyone in the fish and game we process. I'ma suggest if ya can't find anything positive in our channel, just move on. I reply to everyone of our comments, and after Thousands I've never answered one in this manner because I've never had as negative of a comment 🤷.
😢😢😢😢HATERS WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING NEGATIVE TO SAY. PLEASE KEEP YOUR VIDEOS COMING 😊😊😊😊😊. I'm learning quite a bit from you and others 😊😊.
Your the type viewers that make it worth it. The ones that follow a channel. Haters don't bother us, hopefully they get a little education themselves. Most just didn't have the experience we have had a young ages doing this stuff. I've been doing this 40+ years, and won't stop till I'm dead, lol. We ain't going anywhere
Too many wasted catfish meat thrown.
Pretty often someone says this, however when you come in with 300+ lbs of fish it becomes a matter of using faster methods to get fish cleaned and on ice before it all ruins. Very little waste in our methods
Very little waist this is my method for any catfish any size a crappie a blue gill and the meat in back bone that people call waist is so thin you can see through it . Even skinning a fish you have some waist . But the electro knife is only way to go when you bring in as many fish as I clean also . No comparison
@slabslayer258 you nailed it!!
I was about to say that way too much
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638Someone’s always gonna say that. Good filet job dude.
Lots of wasted catfish!
Not really. Don't eat bones and Fat
Didn't even get the cheeks man wtf
@rue2973 you guys tear me up on them checks, lol. Y'all know that 10 lb fish got cheaks bout the size of a thumbnail🤣
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 not a flathead, a channel cat sure but there's quite a bit more to a flathead.
@rue2973 I gotcha. It's more habit for us. It was years before I was shown cheak meat. Never shown growing up. After cutting a bunch out, it just ain't seam worth it to me unless they 30 lbs or so. We catch a lot of flatheads at times and it would be ridiculously time consuming for me to cut them all out. Maybe I'll work on a quick easy method of doing it and show it in a video. We will see. Thanks for your input though, we good with it all, good, bad, whatever, long as we get the input!!
Love me some Opelousas belly meat
Man them lil half moons curled up like catfish cracklings🤣🤣
Tooo toooo much great eating is wasted😢😮
I'm sorry. I explain why we do this method a lot. It depends on number fish we catching. Better to get all the fillets if we got a bunch of fish than them ruining because it took us too long to dress. We do steak them at times, but we also fillet a lot. Also if your selling fish, people just ain't buying bones unless it's whole fryers or Buffalo
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Thanks!!
Too much wasted.
Not really. There is very little waste the way we clean our fish. That said if we only had one or two fish and needed it to go as far as possible meat wise we would possibly steak the catfish. As many as we have a lot of times we'd be there all day steaking fish. This video is just one of our videos showing many different ways. We show stealing and whole fryers in other videos. Thanks for watching!!
They asian.. the eat all the Fish.. bladder bag to for soup. You done A Awesome Job.😄
@bernandoturner4840 Thanks!!
You waste to much
Ya know even the fat gets trimmed from the steaks and pork chops you eat. When we get done there is very little waste, especially on flatheads.
Thank you for sharing the video can we clean and prepare the same way with Blue Channel catfish and other fish
Absolutely you can. We fillet the blue cat a little different because we don't keep bigger blue belly meat. It gets tough. We go in with the knife right behind the Ribs and down the backbone. You'll see this in some of our other cook and clean videos. Maybe we need to do just a blue cat cleaning video one day. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!!
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 Thank you for the update
Thank you!!!
Damn wish I'd seen this yrs. Ago nice filets
Lol, well hope it helps for future cats!!
@@godscountryhuntingfishing1638 oh it will for sure n I'll be spreading the ways.
@sic-n-tiredtired4273 yes sir!!! Just tell em come on over to God's Country Hunting and Fishing 🤣
Looks like alot of wasted meat!
Hardly any. Bout bones only left there