Nothing is wrong with the way he is doing it. He is taking his time showing people how it�s done.

I pound a nail right through the brain into a post / tree then skin 'em . I then snap the body from the head .

I don't usually fillet smaller cats .

He does it pretty much like I have been doing for the last 50 years, except I use an electric knife. If I accidentally cut through the skin, I use an old fork to hold the fillet down and finish skinning with the electric knife.

I used to use the nail trick, but for the last twenty years I try not to keep fish too big to hold with one hand.

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I only skin catfish that I'm cooking whole. Love me some fried tails.

Everyone may not agree with me on taking the bloodline out of the catfish fillets, we have eaten a lot of catfish in our time also, we can detect a different taste that we don't prefer, so that is why we choose to cut it out. Overall a better tasting filet, in my opinion.

I leave the skin on if I�m going to grill them over a fire. Holds the meat together by placing skin side down.

True story: Years ago I was bank fishing for sand bass in the spring and caught a catfish. It HAD ALREADY BEEN FILETED by someone and put back in the water. It was before the days when we all carried around a video camera in our pockets or I would have definitely taken a video. Crazy.

I keep a bag or two of skinned out smaller cats on hand. Sometimes I get a hankering for some whole fish. I learned to fillet catfish with a regular knife like that but I got an electric one as soon as I could . I leave the blade in the cut and flip the fillet over with the end of the blade then pop right in against the skin to separate the meat from the skin. IF I cut thru the skin or pull the whole this off of the fish I then come cut in behind the ribs but not thru the skin. After that ichold the ribs and fillet the meat off of the skin backwards using the ribs as a hand hold.

Nothing says, "I love the LordGawdamighty" more than cutting up a live animal. Stewardship in action.

Do it just the same. Have been for years and I can get through three faster than this with my electric knife. In his defense he is going slower to teach others.

please kill the fish next time before skinning, minimal animal suffering is part of being a good steward as well. a quick whack to the head with a hammer is all it takes.

I had to click off of the video as soon as he whooped out his �sharpener�

Mathgeek has you on the Scripture. I'm a pastor with multiple degrees in interpretation in English, Hebrew and Greek. A saved person is no longer under the Law System of the Old Testament. The whole point of the law was for God to prove that no one is capable of keeping it and our only hope is grace through faith in Jesus Christ.