From BC Outdoors Sport Fishing, a “Learning with the Pros” tip from David Murphy of Murphy’s Sport Fishing. Want to get the most meat out of your catch? Watc…
How to fillet a halibut
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Great vid, simple precise explanation.
Good video, but why don’t you grab the cheeks? the best part…
Government regulation here in BC, part of the fisheries act so you don’t go over your limits and poach.
Yes, the cheeks are good. We used a Rapala filleting knife.
he waste alot of meat
yeah he did waste a LOT of meat there. Commercial standard is 50% recovery. I know for a fact I can get roughly 65-69% recovery. You can go over the top of the belly lining, and remove the meat from it on both the dark and white side. Cheeking the fish too is a must.
I get my % based on a large number of the halibut I filleted for customers aboard the charter fishing boat the Tequila Too out of westport washington. one great test was filleting a 100lb Halibut.
When I was finished, I weighed the bag of Fillets (they were skinned as well) and the bag of fillets weighed 69lbs . That was from a fish that weighed 100lbs even. Remember, 50% recovery is commercial standard, and nothing wrong with it. But if you really want to get the biggest bang for your buck, try just a little harder. And work from a table that hits you about waist high. What a PITA to do it on your knees. Again, I only had to fillet 17 Halibut a day. (not too many in comparison)
Sorry, I wish I would have started out with a compliment.. Sorry Uploader or person who filleted. The quality was excellent. For video purpose, It was also excellent. Damn I am sorry for starting my comments wrong.
I wish I could have got some video of the fish I filleted. And I agree, shouldn’t be anything left when you are done. But if a person only fillets a hundred a year or so, it’ll take years and years to figure it out. lol
You make that look so easy! I take it, that you have done this a few times. LOL
What knife is that one you using
Worlds cleanest filler
*fillet
don’t ever do that again. I assume you fuck and then eat the pussy? You shower, shave and shit in that order? You may have hurt the poor guys feelings
Why did you waste so ch fucking meat. A 100 pound fish you should get 90 pounds of meat
Wow that was clean
there is the head, the spinal column, the guts (which you didn’t see because he didn’t pierce the gut cavity), he didn’t waste any of the meat
Actually it was his first time
So many people look at the videos and someone is filleting a ton of fish and sure if they went slow they might save some meat, but you can’t get it all. In bigger fish like rock you have to slice the mea but smaller fish you can just make a slice across the backbone
one of the best if not best fillet I saw by far! just like butter!
Beautiful technique.
Now I just need a halibut. º_º
Question !! Why is it illegal to take the skin off ??
very boring
Legally???????
Can you toss the remaining caucus in the lake?