When my wife removes the fillet from the skin on CC, unlike where you move the knife along between the flesh and skin on scale type fish, she keeps the knife stationary and pulls the skin toward her moving it back and forth as she pulls. Other than this technique, she fillets them pretty much the same as BG. That is with fish in the 2 to 5# range. We like to harvest the CC at 2-3# ideally, unless she wants to smoke it then the larger fillets work better.
Seems like if you move the knife along rather than pulling the skin through, it is much to easy with a sharp knife to cut through the skin.
She is the CC cleaner. I fillet lots of BG but leave the CC to her.
Have never cleaned a flathead, though we have them here in the larger rivers.
Last edited by snrub; 02/13/19 07:15 AM.
