How to Fillet Crappie Quickly with Mr. Crappie

Wally Marshall, a.k.a Mr. Crappie, has probably forgotten more about cleaning crappie than many anglers will ever learn.  He's an accomplished angler and promoter, but more than that, he's a man with a genuine love of all things crappie fishing, including cleaning and eating them. In this short video, he shows us how to clean a crappie in under 60 seconds. When he's not explaining how to fillet crappie quickly, he actually cleans them in under 30 seconds. So he can whip through a limit of 20 crappies in under 10 minutes with his Smith's Mr. Crappie Slab-O-Matic Electric Filet Knife. We watched him do it on this outing in Texas.

Quick, fast, and in a hurry, Marshall demonstrates the best and cleanest cut and de-ribbing technique. Then talks about how he likes to cook them up and his absolute favorite part of the crappie. 

If you want to get good at cleaning crappie quickly, this might be the quickest and simplest video to learn.

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[tkcenterline]

Still like old school. Love to scale them and then fillet them leaving the skin on.

[PaulLadendorf]

My first thought was "wow that's a lot of waste".

[LightSpinAngler]

I started questioning things when he said 90% of people filet crappie with an electric knife, then when he through out a 1/4 of the edible fish I realized I should find this info elsewhere. Use your head out here folks and stay safe on this great wide web.

[canadafirst]

Over half the comments are pointing out how wasteful your method is....I agree.

[treyton]

Crappie man: 90% of crappie are fileted with an electric knife

Me: who has been fishing for 25+ years and never owned an electric knife 🤨

[shawnxiong]

I agree with James, he wasted too much of the fish

[duanecalhoon]

This is a first that I saw anyone leave it attached to the tail, that is the exact way I do striped bass with electric or manual knife, very nice

[amandajo]

Thank you! It'd been so long I couldn't remember how

[DuddyTales]

I'm pretty happy with how my fillet knife works.. this seams to be more wasteful

[APKRIS]

They got meat way up to their eyes on the tops of their heads I like to get that too tbh lol😂🤝🏾I leave nothing and it’ll still be boneless ! I love crappie😩🔥🤝🏾

[jeffreykidd]

Batter dipped or cornmeal breaded? What does everyone think?

[jamesbarron]

I waste nothing. He left some meat near the tail and I also use a regular filet knife and take the meat off those ribs he threw away. The riblets are the best part. You don’t fry them as long as the filets or they’ll over cook. I fry them first. I live on a dead end road next to Ray Roberts and saw Wally’s truck go past my home one day and turn around. Guess he was looking for a hidden boat launching place.

[deepminds]

DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING THIS MAN SAYS. If he was a butcher he would be fired!

[tomkarau]

That's how I like to clean my croppys too.. but I save the cheek meat also, it's about the size of a dime but if you clean 20 fish you'll have 40 fish nuggets when you save the cheek meat.

[greeneyesfromohio]

These other guys can take a hike….you did great Wally! After fishing all day I want my fish cleaned quick, I’m not going to sit their and try to get ever morsel of meat. Electric knife is the way to go! 👍🏻

[leelemon]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish and you feed him for life.

[thebeddoctor]

Just had crappie for the first time. Not sure if it was a polluted lake or what but they were horrible

[brad]

I've never wasted so much before like that I pick the bones out

[Fishing]

Seems like alot of the meat is left on the fish to me

[eliotartigue]

Here’s the reason why people fillet with electric knife: cause they caught A LOT and saves time cleaning them. If you catch less than or about 12? It’s not bad but if you catch 30? Well that takes a lot of time