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Title: Wintertime Gills
Post by: flintlock on February 15, 2014, 10:11:58 AM
Fire up the cast iron baby!!!  It is fish fry time!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/flintlock/WessV_IceGills_zps8075e7f9.jpg)

Good luck if you are after them
Wess
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Hognutz on February 15, 2014, 11:56:24 AM
Lookin' good, Wess. I am getting a little horney for a fish fry, myself. Ooh-Rah!!

Mike
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: VA_Birdhunter on February 15, 2014, 12:03:39 PM
A fish fry would be sweet right now!!!!

God Bless
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: tomstopper on February 15, 2014, 01:11:08 PM
Those will be some tasty little buggers... :drool:
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: hookedspur on February 15, 2014, 01:13:17 PM
Nice Wes !
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Deputy 14 on February 15, 2014, 03:32:28 PM
Very nice. Fine eating you've got there. O
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Hognutz on February 15, 2014, 03:51:22 PM
Wess..
Have you ever tried an electric filet knife? You could have that mess cleaned in 15 minutes and only have one stinky hand!!

Mike
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: beagler on February 15, 2014, 05:18:01 PM
 :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: flintlock on February 15, 2014, 09:20:21 PM
Thanks guys! 

Mike,
I have never messed w/an electric much but as long as I have my knife sharp I can typically clean a gill in about 45 seconds filleted.  And most of the fish I catch are too small to use an electric knife.  LOL!!!

Wess
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Hognutz on February 15, 2014, 09:50:11 PM
Just a thought, brother.  I watched a guy clean a mess of fish with an electric knife about 20 years ago, and haven't used a conventional filet knife, since. They really do work once you get used to them.
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Old Gobbler on February 15, 2014, 10:06:15 PM
 :icon_thumright: that's a bunch of good eatin'
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Beard Collecter on February 15, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
The electric filet knife is good advise. I bought one a couple of years ago and love it. With gills and bass under 2lbs., you just cut right through the ribs with the electric filet knife, once you have your filet off, you just carve out the section with rib bones. I have cleaned hundreds in the last couple of years, my neighbors love when I drop by with fresh filets. They really love when we invite them over for a fish fry. OK, now I'm hungry!!!
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Muzzy61 on February 16, 2014, 06:11:44 PM
Nice, I'll bring the grits and hush puppies.
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: redarrow on February 16, 2014, 06:17:25 PM
Nice mess of Gills Wess. I pulled 2 Muskies through the ice yesterday in a little cove off the Detroit River. We caught a total of 4 muskies and 1 pike.
Title: Re: Wintertime Gills
Post by: Beard Collecter on February 16, 2014, 08:28:32 PM
By the way, what technique do you use to catch winter gills. I have never fished for them in the winter. You got me thinking!!