Get you a good pair of skinning pliers and skin them before you try to fillet the flesh off the bone. Catfish dont fillet like scaled fish....believe me.

Cut the skin just behind the eyes, across the head and around to under the gill plate. Catch the skin at the cut and pull down to the tail. There will be a small V of skin left on the belly that you'll need to strip back up to the head.

A large heavy hook works really good to hang them on, stuck thru the bottom lip. We had a 2x6 mounted to a tree with 2 hooks on it, one on each end so we could double up on cleaning for market. We didn't fillet many, because we wanted the extra weight, but if someone asked specifically for fillets, the price went up.

.10 surface acre pond, 10.5 foot deep. SW LA. The epitome of a mutt pond. BG, LMB, GSF, RES, BH, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Gambusia,Mud Minnows, Crappie, and now shiners!!...I subscribe!!