08-04-2003, 11:14 PM
I have discovered that filleting perch is almost as fast as just gutting them!!!! People get kind of tedious on filleting them, I was doing the quick fillet jobs on them, probably wasted a little meat, but out of all the fish we caught, we brought home over 5 lbs of meat. I spent more and attention on filleting wiper, bass, trout, ect. We fillet about 70 perch and did about 3 batches in the little chief smoker. OEJ went to the local fred Meyers and bought the premade packet of brine, let them soak for 6 hrs then put in the smoker for about 3 hours!!! Those little fillets smoke realitively quick. We used alder wood, that is personally one of my favorites for smoking fish. Pretty simple process for smoking fish, if you visit the ice fishing and recipies forum here at BFT you can get some recipies there on how to make home made brine!!!!
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