How to Fillet a Fish

How to Fillet a Fish

How to Fillet a Fish. Now you’ve been on a Reefari Charter and you’ve got a heap of fish to fillet, What to do.

Follow our step by step guide and you’ll be an expert in no time. Firstly though, its important to look after your catch to maintain its excellent eating qualities. It pays to bleed your fish and ice down as soon as possible after being caught. Even better, an ice slurry with some Salt water is hard to beat. Properly iced down fish can keep for several days.

You’ve done the hard yards, caught that beaut coral trout, it certainly pays to look after it.

The following is an easy way to quickly fillet fish and skin most Scaled fish and with a little practice you’ll be able to do all sizes from extra large to pan size in no time. You’ll end up with minimal wastage and a great fish fillet with no bones ready to be cooked.

You’ll need a good sized cutting board and a good sharp filleting knife. Make sure you’re knife is sharp, sharper the better to make life easy. Forcing a blunt knife is when accidents happen. See your local tackle shop for assistance and over time a selection of different sized skinning and filleting knives are recommended.