Last year was my first big year fishing in many years and my first big year fishing in Northern New Jersey. I got an opportunity to eat some perch, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, pickerel and walleye. My personal favorite (and yes, I am bias being born in Minnesota) was the walleye, however my wife's favorite was the pickerel. So this means two things for me in 2013:
1) If I want to be allowed to do more fishing next year, I better catch more pickerel
2) If I catch more pickerel, I have to do a better job of filleting the thing than I did last year
So I searched Youtube for some tutorials on filleting a pickerel. I also search for videos on filleting a northern pike as they have the same bone structure. Youtube is a tremendous resource for learning new skills and I was not let down again. However, although most of the videos were pretty good, I never got that "A-HA" moment of exactly what the Y-bone looked like, exactly where it was in the fish and which direction the Y-Bone was positioned. So I tried searching for images and I came across this very useful image. As they say, a picture is worth a 1,000 words.
This image was created by Canoe Camp Fish
