been doing a little ice fishing a couple hour last two morning


so how do you guys fillet your panfish, butterfly, or each side at a time, do any of you eat the eggs,

Nice catch of yellow perch.I fillet them one side at a time.

Each side at a time. We’ve tried eggs several times just don’t seem to be that good in my opinion.

Never ate the eggs

I love perch eggs mixed 50/50 with chicken eggs and scrambled

I fillet all my perch and skin them

Don’t waste your time!

I eat the eggs, awesome protein.

Perch have an unique taste that I love. So far I haven't found a fish or turtle egg that I have liked.

Perch , scaled , skin on , butterfly

been a while since I did many perch

hate to miss that extra meat butterfly gets

butterfly is how my great uncle did perch , he was a commercial fisherman on lake Michigan a good part of his life

Nice perch
My dog liked the eggs

I watched a guy in Wi one time cleaning perch. He'd cut down the back on each side of the fin, just through the skin. He'd pull out that fin, then push a finger in under the skin on one side and his thumb on the other side and pull the whole carcass out of the skin, leaving the guts in the shell of skin. I'll see if I can find a you tube video of his method. It was pretty slick but I stick to filleting them one side then the other same as these bluegills and crappies..... I too don't care for the eggs.

The guy I watched did it that way but was way faster than this guy.

Yikes, I guess some folks like day old dried out bony fish fries. Not for me.

I haven't seen perch prepared like that since the very early seventies. My maternal grandfather and uncle David used to fish Erie and butcher perch like that.

Keith

I thought All predators like eggs.
Wish I'd learned from Grandma
how to butterfly skin large trout.
I was too busy being the big shot
doing the catching.

i will post some pic, of how I cut and fry the eggs today, they will be my dinner today I cant wait yum