fillet knife.............

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Striper80

My friends father used to do it like that. I remember being at the fillet table behind Atlantic highlands bait and tackle as a kid and he'd be ripping it off with pliers. We'd rent a boat from Pete and put a nice catch together. Not happening these days.

If you do it right you can rip the entire skin from tail to head off in one piece with an easy pull. The tricks are to double the skin at the tail where you grab it so it's stronger, and the other trick is to use a vise grips so the skin (which is slimy) doesn't slip out of your pliers. When the pliers slip that's when you get the rips and tears in the skin and the cussin starts......

Sad but true on the not happening comment. :(