been cooking a mess of crappies lately, I am in the skin on scale camp , actually everyone I fed them too skin on joined my skin on team

I know it depends on the fish like you wouldn't likely do cats with skin on

but for pan fish where you are already making little fillets , I like skin on

it may be that it reminds me of how my great uncle used to do it , always , scale and butterfly those perch .

kids were designated scalers , here is your spoon , start scaling

I do both but I usually get lazy and fillet the skin off. It saves a lot of time.

Panfish/ walleye. Scale em n cook em.

Skin off for my wife she cannot stand the skin on shes.mostly bluegill,crappie type of gal for panfish.doesnt make me much difference.

I don't mind skin but I like taking the skin off panfish bass etc. I keep it on trout and macks

Never thought much on it, here, we fillet and skin everything

My thinking if you skin them you really dont like fish, the skin and the thin layer of fat underneath has all the flavor.

No skin

I hate fileting anything smaller than 14". scale and fry.

Lot of good flavor in the skin.

Depends on the fish

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Smaller fish, skin ON. Bigger fish, depends on my mod, LOL. Always peel any I'm gonna fillet. I always peel Cat, Carp, Gar etc.

Who cleans up the scales? I always skin everything otherwise I'm finding scales around the house for a week. But I don't fish much in the summer, so most of my fish cleaning is during the winter so outside is less than ideal.

Never scaled a fish in my life.

Skin off for us.

Same. I like 'em fileted regardless of what type of fish.

piece of carboard on the tailgate when the scales dry the brush right off

but I can see winter may be harder

it comes down to labor I guess

some one said scaling takes longer , maybe if your doing it all yourself but if you have a helper you can just fillet and they have all the scales off for you so your part of the labor is less. a good scaler can feed 2 people filleting so if you have a mess of fish and someone not so great with a knife they can have them scaled for you.

The smaller the fish the skin stays on.