How To Clean A Sheepshead

[@stantheman1976]

You can grill these whole without filleting and the meat falls off the bones. I scale them, cut the head off, and clean out the guts. Wrap it in foil with butter and lemon juice. Grill it for about 40 minutes. The bones are large so the meat comes off easily and the skin separates. My buddy I fish with doesn't even scale them. Since the skin comes right off you don't have to.

[@coleringdahl7011]

Thanks this helps me a lot

[@barebones1174]

Thanks for the positive feedback. Sheepshead are an amazing food source. Arian:I'm not a biologist by any means, but I think several factors attribute to this particular fish not bleeding. These fish were on ice an hour or two which would coagulate and clot most blood vessels. Also I didn't get the knife into the gills or backbone where fish tend to be more vascular. I like to ice all fresh catch even if I catch it from my dock. It aids in blood control and it firms the meat ensuring a better filet. Hope this helps.

[@buckhendrickson5220]

BareBones just

[@damien_strix]

Hey man good job, I've been looking at different how to visits for sheepshead and this is one of the best

[@bigoledude1]

Great instructional video!! We catch a lot of sheepshead down here in SE Louisiana while fishing for other species. I never throw the decent sized ones back. It's the finest white delicate meat. I think I will be better at cleaning them now because of your fine video. Thanks!!!

[@nateb4039]

I'm also from SE Louisiana I often fish catfish lake and surrounding area

[@JohnDoe-wy1yd]

I lived on Lake Erie and knew a guy who had an old laundry dryer and he would throw his yellow perch in with a handful of nuts and bolts and turn it on. This is how he took the scales off. LOL.

[@TampaBayFishingClubnet]

One of the better videos on cleaning a sheepshead but why scale or gut the fish if you plan on filleting it?

[@ephraimcaangay4815]

Beautiful fish. When I have more than a 1 person limit to clean (15/person in Florida), I use an electric fillet knife, specifically to get through the ribs. Those fillets are delicious any way you can cook fish. My family's favorite is to chunk it into cubes, and flashboil it in Zataran's crab boil, with butter for dipping. If it happens to be < 15 inches, I keep it whole, removing the scales, gills and viscera, pull out the dorsal and anal fins, stand it up on a cookie sheet, and bake it. Once cooked, the flesh effortlessly separates from the bone with a fork.

[@marybrown394]

Are they a ocean fish

[@kyleflowers3994]

Yes it's a saltwater fish. Dont listen to the comment above me

[@ThatOldMan2112]

Almost like I do it. I don't cut the ribs out with the fillet. I come from the top and work the curved tip of the knife in strokes against the ribs and take all the meat off of the ribs while leaving them intact on the carcass. When I take it off the skin like you do, that is the last step. I have all the rib and belly meat and don't cut into the guts.

[@ThatOldMan2112]

You lose your belly meat that way. Don't cut through the ribs. Go along the top of them and you'll have more meat, no contamination, and less steps.

[@dpierson489]

Out of all the how to clean sheep head videos they never warn about cutting into the gut and what happens to the meat when it happens.

[@vader2042]

You just contaminated the meat with its guts and everything...

[@AGAMINGAC]

im pretty sure when you cook it, the bacteria will burn off. but i might be wrong.

[@Bocasean18]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wooooooow you rinse it off it's that simple he didn't contaminate anything I'm litteraly laughing so hard

[@wubagong2402]

Do you have to Descale it?

[@exotitan516]

wubagong yea you should. I always scale any fish

[@kikataye6293]

Only if you plan on eating the skin.

[@darrenr9325]

no

[@simonspop706]

Why does everyone say "sheep head" and "pectorial"?

[@arianjames9142]

Ok so I did this today. Why is your fish not bleeding

[@angelaraneta159]

Funny how you named your video "how to clean a sheepshead" but you just rub the fillet all over with that gut juice..

[@gclarke4720]

fish n shit anyone?

[@yakcatfishing6285]

Eww dang bro you strait up filleted that baby on the stomach acid and juices. I mean laid directly on top of it too. Lol good video still though.

[@darrenr9325]

go over the ribs just angle kniife up a little just before rib cage miss all that gutts you had all over board

[@jasonwilliam2125]

Great vid mate. I have seen some real shitty attempts at filleting these and yours is not on that list.

[@redorrick427]

why didn't you hose off the cutting table before you rubbed your fresh fillet all over it? Disscusting dude

[@idubbzz7790]

stfu moron ur face is disgusting fk face

[@keninespino821]

🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[@sparrow7356]

Your marinating all the meet with the fish shit, I know you can wash it off but man why did you put the meat in all that shit

[@slug77ster]

Gag!