A detailed look at how to fillet a trout and remove the pin bones

Get rid of those pesky pin bones! Special guest Neal Barker shows us how!
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[MaRk]

90% of videos I've seen miss these bones, thank you 😊

[MichealBacon]

Arguably the best trout fillet video on YouTube. Perfect video tutorial. Thank you.

[TheT-BOT]

Love it! Coming from a back-country perspective, this is exactly what I was looking for. The gutting and preparation is often on some granite rock near a shores edge, bent over and trying to limit the spread of smells and mess to avoid attracting bears. This looks like a no-nonsense approach to getting the job done in the easiest way possible. Cooking the fish and then pulling out the bones (as most tutorials show) is a NO GO as now you have fish scent all over your hands. This is a great pre-cook solution to that issue. Thank you!! A+

[bananaman-lbog]

Been looking for videos on how to fillet small trout and this guy helps me finaly figure out what to do with the pin bones on smaller trout. I kept wasting meat trying to take those suckers out. Best fillet video I've matched and its greatly appreciated.

[bigred]

This dude is like a trout boning ninja! The technique is incredible!

[bestoutcomes]

Exceptional instruction and video. I do this method on our wild salmon and other species here in Alaska. What is particularly nice about this instruction is how relaxed he is, and not stressed nor in a damn hurry, like trying to show us how fast he can filet, which is what every other video on the subject tends to be centered on, as if the fileting of a catch is a nuisance to get over with quickly. I find it relaxing and enjoyable and this guy obviously has the same attitude. The videographer did a heck of a great job too

[Longshot]

Excellent tutorial. I'm a relatively new angler, and my grandpa recently passed away so I'm left to learn a lot of these things on my own. This definitely helps a lot. Thanks for posting!

[michellec]

Best video on how to fillet a trout that I have seen, absolute minimal waste nice and clean and well demonstrated, will definitely be watching more of your vids, GREAT job, thanks.

[SimonSzajnfeld]

I really like this video. Your approach both to filleting and removing the bones is better than any of the many dozens other videos I have seen on the same subject. However, you would refine your tutorial even more by adding a comment on what to do if you intend to eat the trout’s skin: Scrape the fish scales off the skin first thing, even before you gut the fish! I live in Norway and have been fishing brown trout since the late 1950s. I always eat the trout skin – scaleless – when the fish is prepared in a frying pan or in an oven. Jummy!

[rmommandi]

just used this vid to clean a dozen beautiful 10-16" 'bows we caught the other day. Its quick and super efficient. Make sure you sharpen your knives before hand because the one used in the video is wicked sharp!

[crisperediting]

beautiful, finally one where not wasting half of the fish! Great job !

[seahawksfan]

Thank god! Finally a video showing me how to fillet without ANY bones left behind! Thank you so very much for sharing your technique!

[samsadowitz]

Technically, this is called butterflyimg a whole trout, but your technique and tips on it are really good and easy to follow. As an aspiring chef, i have found better techniques watchimg YouTube than what they teach at culinary school. I will definitely add this to my repertoire on butterflying fitsh. What i like best about this technique is that you are always going around bones and not through them which keeps the knife sharper longer.
Awesome video!!!

[kimc]

I just tried this technique and wow it was super helpful and made a difference. Thank you!

[meldridge]

Wow! I’ve never seen a trout filet done this way and you did fantastic! Great job!

[duhgreatnate]

Very helpful video! I've started smoking all the trout I catch and it's delicious. But the rest of the family hates picking out the pinbones! Thanks!

[Rickandrollshow]

I like this video. I've seen many ways to clean trout. I learned from my aunt who lived in northern Minnesota. She would fillet a northern pike, remove the ribs and then score the pin bones by making a vertical cut every 1/8" the length of the rib bones. The pin bones cook up the same as when you scored them. Nice technique you show.

[richnerd]

I frequent this trout farm and I cannot praise them enough awesome establishment. And this filleting technique of there’s is something else. Any of the workers there can clean and fillet a a trout faster than you can say it!

[SpaceyBrain]

I have always cooked my trout whole. This year is the first year I've started filleting my trout as I have been smoking them on the traeger. I was so used to being able to just remove the bones post cook in fell swoop that I forgot that pin bones even exist. Excited to do this on my next batch