Years ago I started using an electric fillet knift to clean my fish. It makes the job so much faster and easier.

I also like to clean the bigger fish. When they get to around 12" they are easier to fillet.

Since I am not suppose to eat fried food anymore I don't keep and eat as many crappie as I use to. I bake the fish in an oven these days or grill them on the gas grill outside. Just wrap them up in aluminum foil and add butter and lemon juice to them before wrapping them up in the foil. It's not a tasty as when they are fried in a good batter but it's much healthier to eat.

I still have frozen fish fillets in my freezer from last year. I probably need to replace them as they are probably freezer burned by now.

I'm thinking about going today but it may rain a lot today. So I'm still trying to decide what to do.

Quote Originally Posted by Tyme2fish View Post
I guess the slab crappie I'm used to catching at Lake Barkley and some Florida lakes has me prejudiced against anything under 9 inches. I was surprised to read the regulations and find out there is no size limit on crappie in Indiana.

We caught a lot of 7 to 9 inch crappie at Patoka but I released all of them.

No disrespect to those that keep the small ones. My filleting skills aren't that great on small fish and I stopped scaling and gutting them years ago.

We'll probably try again after these rains stop.