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Got a Dead Fish? Now Comes the FUN Part.
THE COMPLEAT FISH CLEANING GUIDE
In three parts

Darrell's dad Grover goes electric

With pictures from his hit video Fly Fishing for Panfish! , Grover Prowse demonstrates a practical and easy way to mow through the task of filetting dozens of small pan fish like crappie (pronounced, by the way, "CRAW-pee"), bluegill, perch, bass, and bream.

Martha Jordan on volume cleaning for non-consumption

Cleaning a fish to eat it is one thing. removing little earbones from big spiney fish for scientific reasons is quite another. Read and learn about the high points of career fish cleaning.

Leslie Strom searches for the mother of all fish-cleaning projects

Mostly this is a fish story. Washington State University's Beach Watchers program on Whidbey Island has been blessed/cursed with several dead whales, which a hardy crew of volunteers is using to make skeletons out of for display. Some of us went up to see the bones, and nearly got arrested.