Originally Posted by jpsdad
In the second article he explains how to eat them removing all the bones in one easy step.

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Like chain pickerel, redfin pickerel have Y-bones in their skeleton. But there’s no need for extreme means of cleaning and filleting redfins.

“I just scale, head and gut redfin pike like any panfish,” he said. “Then I fry them. Once they are cool enough, I hold them upside down in the palm of one hand and reach down through the rib cage with the other to pull out the backbone. All the other bones come right out with the backbone, so all you have left is great tasting fish to eat.”

Today my son and I caught a limit of trout and we used this technique at lunch to debone the pan fried trout. It worked like a charm. Much better than trying to fork the meat off the bones.

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