How to fillet (loin out) an ALBACORE TUNA! Big Shticks!!

A step by step tutorial of how to fillet (loin out) a tuna. My first attempt at harvesting loins from an albacore tuna provided by REEL NINJA from a recent fishing trip in Fort Bragg, CA!
I hope you find this video both entertaining & informative.
Enjoy!

[@justadudedudin]

The beavis and butthead reference 😂. Thanks for the help man, buying an albacore tonight

[@BigShticks]

I appreciate the compliment!

[@ChainsawMiller]

Very helpful. Thank you

[@Tsindur]

hehe the bevis butthead reference

[@tjsmyth1741]

Thanks

[@TheReallyRealReel]

Bleed it IMMEDIATELY after you catch it bro. It makes a big difference in a lot of fish.

[@BigShticks]

Totally agree. However, my buddy (@Reel Ninja fishing) gave this fish to me. I have no idea if it was bled or not prior.

[@vincegusar1671]

We bleed our tuba right away when we catch em, just got 20 this weekend out in the pacific and this video helped me fillet em but the red part of the meet still had it in the meat and had to be cut out even after bleeding em

[@marinoutdoors]

Hitting albacore in bragg this comming saturday hopefully will be doing a lot of this saturday night

[@BigShticks]

Marin Outdoors Good luck to you! This is hands down some of the best tasting fish around. Thanks for stopping by brotha!

[@lynfawcett1930]

OMG just how much flesh was wasted in the very dumb filleting lesson?

[@BigShticks]

Grow up. You sound like the youth of today that casually complain about anything & everything 😂. Nothing gets wasted. It all goes to use as fertilizer & crab bait. Besides, if you knew what you were doing you wouldn’t have been looking to see how it’s done.

[@lynfawcett1930]

@@BigShticks What a lovely compliment to give a 72 year old. Crab bait and fertiliser is hardly good value for the amount of meat you left on the bones and totally disrespectful to the fish. And yes I do know how to fillet most fish having been trained in the fish section of the London Europa in the 1970s, spending 20 years as a chef and head chef then 20 years as a university tutor in culinary arts. I was looking for more information on Amberjack and FOOLISHLY clicked on your link. I was so surprised at the fumbling display and awful wastage that I was unable to turn off. Almost like watching a horror film and not being able to turn away.

[@BigShticks]

@@lynfawcett1930 Yeah I didn’t ask for your “life” story. Nor do I care your age. But you should try acting like it.To be honest people over embellish on the internet everyday all day to lend credence or weight to their argument. So forgive me if I take your “accolades” with a grain of salt. If you’ve ever filleted a tuna of any variety you’d know that virtually all tuna have the exact same anatomy. Much of the waste stretches from the tail fin along the lateral line to the ribs. It’s mostly sinew, tendon like bones & mushy fight burned red meat. All of which is not marketed let alone consumed. Furthermore, who are you to determine the value of what I repurpose as fertilizer & crab bait? That “waste” brings to bear bountiful harvests of vegetables year round & hundreds of pounds of Dungeness crabs in season. That alone at $13lb in market says that “waste” is far more valuable as bait than nitpicking the carcass to satisfy your idea of what a properly filleted tuna looks like. In closing, stop being so hyperbolic & apoplectic. The video was not a “horror movie” 😂. KZbin has been around for more than 2 decades & I’m sure you can find actual horror videos, real horrific footage of horrible things being perpetrated & I’m absolutely positive you know exactly how to click out of an undesired video. To suggest otherwise says far more about your comprehension than my video content.

[@lynfawcett1930]

Sorry I have to go now, I have a run out of crayons. And my father always said to me you should never argue with the Village idiot because people who are watching aren’t able to tell which ones of you is which

[@BigShticks]

@@lynfawcett1930 Bwahaha 😹

[@mexicanamerican21]

Wrong

[@BigShticks]

@@mexicanamerican21 Yet here you are…😉

[@mexicanamerican21]

@@BigShticks be back in 3 years from now to re-inform.

[@GregoryMillar-l7n]

Stupid way to clean a albie

[@mcdouche2]

Your wife lets you do tuna work in the kitchen? Nice lady.

[@BigShticks]

😂, she’s NEVER happy about it!

[@ORIGIN84]

One drop of anything from the tuna = disaster

[@Fahren_Freude]

thanks friend! it went great with your help

[@wavehead11]

Not how I was taught

[@swampwhiteoak1]

No need to remove the head and guts to fillet a fish! Insane!

[@HellsHitman]

He got the meat off this must be an east coast or nor cal way here in SoCal I could of done 5 20lbers in this time frame difference between DeckHand n cook I guess but gotta say he did a pretty job so I ain’t knock n ya

[@BigShticks]

This is the way I learned how to do it. Don’t know if it’s necessarily a nor cal way or not, but simply the way I do it. I could do it faster if not filming a tutorial. But it’s not about speed for me. If I was deckhand sure, but I’m far from it. Thanks for watching

[@GregoryMillar-l7n]

I'm so cal too and worked in Diego a long time. We're different down there. About a minute and a half per fish on a rocking boat

[@zoharflax6363]

Thanks, that's a great method of filleting these albacore.

[@BigShticks]

Thank you!

[@yeulakho6574]

Nice 👍

[@swampwhiteoak1]

Rinse off the gut juice before getting into the flesh.

[@ReelNinjafishing]

Good job. Looking forward to see how you cook it.

[@BigShticks]

Reel Ninja Or, how I don’t cook it...😉

[@ReelNinjafishing]

I have to figure that out. Last time I sliced loin thin and seared with a little garlic oil oil. My cousin just cooked some with rice..... That is the next mission. To figure out the ways to cook.

[@BigShticks]

Reel Ninja I’m thinking I’m going to make 1 loin into Poke, 1 into a seared sesame roll, maybe 1 cooked sous vide & probably 1 poached in a flavor infused oil of some sort.

[@woodturningjohn]

Watched video after doing my first tuna, LOL I did not do too bad.

[@BigShticks]

That’s awesome & some mighty good eating!

[@Breccann]

yuck

[@GerOffYeWeeBastard]

How would it be smoked, I wonder?

[@BigShticks]

If I had a go at it I’d probably start with a dry brine & use the big chief smoker. But I’m not sure how it would turn out. My other option would be to simply sear it over a grill grate covered charcoal chimney for max heat to sear leaving the center mid rare

[@odoylerules77]

Dry af

[@colinblues2402]

Cold smoked and cured. Like cold smoked salmon