[RKDinOKC]

Knew how to properly scale and filet fish when I was just 5. Even knew to scale and gut trout and not filet them. A little later to skin and filet catfish. Sometimes we fished farm ponds instead of lakes. If you caught sun fish, blue gill, or perch whatever they were called too small to filet, you threw them back in and set your bobber deeper next cast.

Our local old black man fish stories were that they caught, pressure cooked, and ate carp. You pressure cook it to soften up all the teeny tiny bones.

Was camping with a church group. One father was supposedly and avid fisherman. They caught a nice sized bass. He cooked it up for a meal. He thought it was great. Just scaled it, didn't bother to filet or even gut it. YUK!!!