Crabs eat all my night crawlers

The lure and music excellent 😊

The bait I mean not the fish

What kind is that

Lake trout isn’t really trout 😂

According to all videos of what bait to use for crappie every bait works lol. Just go to store and buy whatever bait you like 100 videos 100 different baits

Boy well the cutting the underbelly out first the to cut out the ribs from the other side. Clever.. I see

On 2 of them each one only lasted an ice season each works great but for some reason dont last

If yoou make a curved initial cut from the top to the back of the fin you can get more tenderloin and a full slab of side meat.When you remove the rib cage if you get your filet to the edge of your table you can roll the ribs out and on a good thick winter time fish your rib cage will be removed and your filet will look just as it did when you cut it off.After you are done soaking the filets out lay each filet bone side down and make an angled cut from front to back along each side of the blood line.Grab the blood line at the back of the filet and pull forward,this will remove the blood line and the top of the pin bones,should sound like a zipper when you pull them out.separate the lower part of the filet from the top and separate the tenderloin bye findinng the seam and pull about halfway to the tail end and cook the pieces separately for even amount of properly cooked fish .

We only get the frozen option here

Fillet northern pike's for more than 20 years. Never took the Y-bones out till after frying them. Personally I feel like this method is better for guests or people unaccustomed to taking the bones out of their cooked fillets. I save more meat by just taking the bones themselves out after cooking and likely spend as much time as one would spend doing the extra fillet steps. However I will give this a try to see how I like it next time, or for when there are guests eating. The video is great and I agree Pikes taste great and they sure are easy to catch with how aggressive they are.

Where do you get those?

Bro. Blackfish? Really? Shouldn't that be Afro-American fish? lol!

Nice, just sent the trim flying into the wild. 🤦‍♂️

Excellent video I was showing the same method by a private professional chef

I always cut behind both gills as soon as I catch them. They bleed out, and there’s practically no blood in the filets. In fact, recently I caught a 32” catfish, and didn’t even have to discard any red meat. It was also not bad tasting at all. Although, while I was cleaning my fish another guy can up with several large cats. He didn’t cut the gills or anything, and his filets were full of blood. They didn’t look appealing.

The only fish I eat are the salmon I catch in Autumn. I catch enough to fill my fish intake for a year and the eggs to catch them as well.

Did I miss it? Is this a 9 or 10 inch?

In my local small lake, I know where to get then in the spring, but never can get them through the ice. Funny stuff.

That walleye at 2:14 is my favourite colour. Usually from the weeds in tea stained water. In my experience, white, natural perch, hot perch, chartreuse are my reliable colours for jigs. I never get them on brown, orange, purple, black.

Good tutorial. Never had an issue with the slime. Just need a hose to clean my boards. I like the squeegee idea.

haha. im a lefty too. but, awesome video

always a wealth of knowledge... Ty Brotha

#3 not through the belly, go through the back

Great info, was hoping to talk with you at the ice show in duluth this year.

why is the k drill so slow??? I just bought a 7.5" kdrill for $47 brand new, only because of the deal and its light weight. but my hand crank eskimo was $25 plus $10 for the drill adapter and it cuts like lightning. Every video comparison I've ever seen on youtube of the K drill makes it look so painfully slow compared to everything else. But if you only need a couple of holes, it doesn't matter how slow the k drill is. oh, "its not designed to be fast" now I get it. haha.

The bigger the body of water I usually try the larger baits. But smaller lakes I stick with tungsten and plastics. I’m talking shallow weedy lakes. I’ve caught nice crappies in small lakes on a 1/32 oz jig with a silkie and that’s it. Here’s my secret. The smaller lakes don’t have much of a minnow or predator population. They are mostly cruising around filter feeding and if you’ve ever cut their stomach open they are eating invertebrates. White silkies with a white and black dot jig mimic this perfectly. Now if there’s a minnow population I use spoons but always have that invertebrate copy tied on. And also the smaller lakes I don’t use horizontal jigs I use vertical jigs so they don’t see much but the silkie. Play keep away from crappies and gills you have to work a little harder. So if you don’t want small gills drop your jig below them then rip it past them and if they dart away they weren’t worth your time. This is crucial midwinter cause I’ve worked baby gills for way too long just for something to do.

Appreciate all the quality information you share. Stay topside and TIGHT LINES ALL!

Is boulder lake in Boulder junction frozen and safe.

Which reel are you using in this video?

Love my pin heads. Use other stuff when I have to. Lol. Looking forward to trying the new Niko baits and confetti drop XLs

If you are not going to keep the skin, then leave a small section attached to the tail section and then flip the fillet out flat over the tail skin side down. Now run your knife between the skin and the fillet. Leaving the skin attached will give you more leverage to remove the fillet from the skin.

Pike and musky is horrible eating. Walleye and saugeye sauger are the onky fish in that family worth eating

Great Job

do you have to de slime?

Awesome video! Very informative and great content. Thank you!

Super nice job of explaining and showing us how to "get er' done". Thanks.

Are you using eurotackle finesse braid or sufix 832?

Dang, that first one is a beauty crappie!

Swedish pimple and do-jigger are also outstanding walleye ice spoons.

I'm totally new to forward facing imaging for boat and ice, and I have no idea where to start. I think your patient and clear way of explaining things would be great for a complete guide on the subject. How it works, what to buy, how to use, etc. Thanks!

Would like your video and info on glass rods and how to use.

I’ve never really been bothered by the “slime”. Once you fillet it, it doesn’t matter. The way I remove the Y-bones is first cut the fillet into thirds, instead of trying to do it on a full fillet, much easier. My dad learned from an article about 50 years ago and taught me probably 45 years ago.

dont understand given the fish a spa day when you're going for the fillet anyhow. and if you bleed the fish as soon as you can, itll help with the fish taste!

Nice set up 👍🏻

I live in central Wisconsin is there any lakes other then the Great Lakes to find lake trout?

I will clean them but I don't eat them. No flavor. I enjoy natural flavor. Don't like seasoning on fish.

Bones in my filet don't bother me. In fact I prefer bones to take time enjoying flavor. Otherwise you just gulp them down. Pike is the best flavored fish. Salt water pulls all blood out.

In Massachusetts we have monsters walleye too

Great work, 15 cats like that would be work huh! Been there before!