Jeff, here's how my grandmother cleaned (and cooked) bluegills.

Scale. Remove head and guts. Coat with seasoned flour (black pepper to taste was mixed with the flour and a bit of salt). Fry in Crisco. Peel off skin and pull out fins, peel meat away from skeleton. Eat.

She (and I) can have a fish skeleton that looks like one in the kids cartoons.

If I filleted them she would say that I was wasting too much meat.


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