How To Clean a Northern Pike!

[Mayfly]

Folks,

We have a very good video here on the site of how to clean a northern pike. The video is located on the left side of your screen below the user box. 

Thanks!   

[tomcat]

Thanks It one of the best video's I have see for cleaning Northern


   tomcat

[redbull135]

  very good thanks for posting .

[brandbll]

Folks,

We have a very good video here on the site of how to clean a northern pike. The video is located on the left side of your screen below the user box. 

Thanks!   

Yeah, that's probably the best Northern cleaning instructions i've seen so far.

[loms]

Great learning tool. Thanks for sharing. Good luck to everyone next weekend.

[KTapper]

That is a pretty darn good one. I have tried it another way and get get strips. I like this one because you get nice fillets.

[Jdrummer]

Ok, I just tried this last night and I gotta say it's the best way I have cleaned a pike! Thanks Tim!

JK about the pike last night. 

[KTapper]

You better have been kidding!! Not till may 9th! well unless you got it on P4

[Jdrummer]

uh ya pool 4 is where i got it 

[Mayfly]

Watched this a few times now... Just wonder if i'll remember it in the cleaning shack in a week, might have to eat a northern now.

 

[fubar]

Nice work,
Here is a video i made last summer, its prety much the same thing but i think it saves a little more meat on the top of the fillet by making the first cut you see in the video. With smaller northern it dosnt make much of a diffrence but when you get a sow there can be quite a bit on top of the Y bones that gets cut out with the bones in the first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQqNe4vrn88&feature=channel_page

[Mayfly]

Here is the video I was referencing. Just in case someone didn't find it.

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[HD]

Yea, I cut them a little different....

I lay the fish standing upright, cut behind the head down to the back bone, basically taking the top of the fish off to the tail. Then you can see the Y bones and filet down along the sides of them. Then flip the top of the fish over and you can filet between the Y bone and the spine to get the fish sticks between the top of the Y bone and the spine. It's fast and you get more meat out of the fish.

I know, kinda hard to follow without seeing............

Hunter

[KTapper]

Yea, I cut them a little different....

I lay the fish standing upright, cut behind the head down to the back bone, basically taking the top of the fish off to the tail. Then you can see the Y bones and filet down along the sides of them. Then flip the top of the fish over and you can filet between the Y bone and the spine to get the fish sticks between the top of the Y bone and the spine. It's fast and you get more meat out of the fish.

I know, kinda hard to follow without seeing............

Hunter

I have done it this way and it works great! But next time I will try this method.

[Mayfly]

Cleaned my first northern a few days ago usingthis and it worked...pretty good. need more practice but did a lot better than I have in the past.