Filleting a snapper comes down to three cuts: one behind the gill plate, one along the backbone, and one up over the rib cage. Get those right and a single fish gives you two clean fillets with almost ...

As a kid, when we got home from a fishing trip, the job for us kids was to scale the fish with a spoon, and then Dad would clean them. We’d fry them whole. On the big bass over 5 lbs, Dad would cut ...