How To Skin A Catfish Whole

Start at the tail and use your knife to cut the skin from the fillet.

How to skin a catfish whole. Sprinkle the outside of the entire catfish with kosher salt and then drizzle it with extra virgin olive oil. Start your cut at the base of the head and pull your knife. Use your filet knife to cut just. But lets keep it simple in this post.

Step 6 rub the inside of the fish with kosher salt and olive oil. After ensuring that your catfish is not alive cut a slit in the skin behind its gills. I was catfishing and saw a guy giving away his fish because he said they were to hard to clean. Smoked catfish can be served in several ways like fillet and the larger cats would have a lot of meat to offer.

Flip the fillet over using the blades of your knife so the skin is laying on the flat surface. Lay the whole catfish on the baking sheet on top of the lemon slices and herbs. This video shows how to fillet a catfish with instructions and demonstration. Any catfish species whether big or small skinned or whole can be smoked.

Catfish can smoke in several ways on the same grill. Cut along the fishs spine from its head to its tail. Cut down the vertebrae holding your electric fillet knife at a slight angle following the bone until you get to the tail. Slice open the skin down the center of.

Anchor the head of the catfish onto the board with the long nail. Stop about one half inch before you get to the tail. Remove all the organs making sure that you do not puncture them. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.

Step 2 cut the skin of the catfish with a series of shallow cuts along the length of the skin.