10 reasons NOT to eat summer pike

[Fox]

This thread is hilarious. You guys do realize that Y bones are not spread out randomly all over the entire fish right? My kids are 7 and 9. Been feeding them pike since they started eating solid food. They love pike nuggets. Although my daughter like perch better. Not sure what her problem is.

Bingo, easy to remove, learned how to do it when I was really young, so did my whole family, nobody died.

Oh, found a nice sharp chunk of pork bone in a chop last night, could have ripped a hole in my guts for sure, time to go vegan.

[sawbill]

I fish with quite a few different guys and I clean all the catch on every trip and have been for years. The reason is simple, most guys haven't a clue how to CLEAN a fish properly so I don't let them go near the things. You can go to you tube and watch so-called experts clean fish and it makes me gag just to see them toss a skinned fillet back into the slime and gunk on the cleaning table. So I can imagine the number of y bones that get left behind on a pike. There is payback though. They get to do all the cooking and dishes later while I sit and have a beer.

[greatwhite]

I have to make sure there are no bones at all or my son and my buddy Tim let me know quite quickly by tossing it.

[Hardman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBFrQ5KMIs8

This guy is good at filleting pike, you have to listen to the host interrupt though.
As for kids and fish, our family has always given the tail piece to the kids. Anyone can make a tail piece boneless

[smokin'stoegie]

Pike are a very tasty firm white fleshed fish. Most people won't deal with them because of their inability to correctly remove the Y-bones.
Honestly, I love to eat fish but to me a bunch of people sitting around the table plunging their fingers into their mouths and yanking out the tiny bones and putting them on the side of their plate is disgusting.
No thanks, learn how to remove the bones.

[MikePal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBFrQ5KMIs8

This guy is good at filleting pike, you have to listen to the host interrupt though.
As for kids and fish, our family has always given the tail piece to the kids. Anyone can make a tail piece boneless

I case you're interested ..Canadian Tire has a nice 6" Rapala fillet knife like the guy uses in the video on sale this week; $10 for a $30 knife:

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/r...-0777428p.html

[Splaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBFrQ5KMIs8

This guy is good at filleting pike, you have to listen to the host interrupt though.
As for kids and fish, our family has always given the tail piece to the kids. Anyone can make a tail piece boneless

Chronzy has a huge gut eh? Must have eaten a lot of fried up pike in his life...

[JoePa]

Some people pickle the pike leaving the bones in the meat - the bones get soft and you can eat them for more calcium intake - the only problem with the pickling process is that it doesn't kill any parasites that might be in the fish

[Hawkman]

I don't fish as much as I used to, due to lack of time and opportunity. So - sadly - I haven't brought home any pike for years.

In the past however, I ate pike any chance I got without even filleting them "properly". My kids, when they were younger, got the cleanest pieces but I also taught them how to be careful with bones from ANY fish while enjoying a meal.
We will be spending a week at a waterfront cottage later this month and I sure hope they have tasty PIKE there!