okay all you lovely people at foodtube i'm going to show you how to fill it a whole salmon it applies also to a sea trout or trout same method i'm using this knife this is a this is a filleting knife i'm using this because it's quite standard i'm going to need some little tweezers for taking out the pin bones and i need um some scissors the scissors i just use to remove all of those little fins get yourself a nice plastic board get yourself a wet cloth underneath um so let's talk about how we cut this fish first up let's just have a little look so can you see that natural line behind the fish's head we want to follow that with the tip of our knife i'm going to run that knife behind the neck like so i'll then fold it over and i'll do exactly the same but this time i'm going to give it a little tap and go all the way through we've got a cross section of the fish here we can see nice and clearly we've got the phillip and the spine here and we want to cut through there so i'm going to put the tip in and i'm going to do a nice confident cut through once i get into that ribs that's good then i'm going to turn it around and see can you see that there's the backbone going all the way along the fish here see the dorsal fin here i want to stay on this side of the dorsal fin and it's really important you do long movements okay even if you get it wrong better to go long than big jaggedy bits okay so be confident clean knife start on top of the spine and i'm going to run my knife down the length of the spine and you know where it is there's the dorsal fin there and we're kind of locked in now keep your hands out of the way all the way down to the tip of the tail now what i want to show you is a little trick is the bottom is here i'm literally going to stick my knife through to the bottom see it's come through and then all i need to do now is slightly angle the blade into the spine and if i just do that what i'll do is have a nice clean cut and we won't waste too much half the fish has taken off the bone here right so we've revealed the spine and now i'm going to angle the knife into the ribs and as i'm doing it i'm just easing it away the blade is not facing the meat it's facing the ribs then it goes quite close to the ribs and then you get the ribs off like that i'll do this other side of salmon stay on the top of the backbone pass the dorsal fin right up to the spine we've hit the spine there and then we're going to look for the bottom hole and we're going to go straight through hold the blade down and angle it down and beautiful we're going to go up to the spine once more just rub it against the rib bones and come out i've taken the ribs off now we've got this little bottom fin here so off with the fin what i like to do is face it away from me clean up that angle there i'll use my knife and i'll cut down the length of the fish like that this trim you can use for mousses and bits and pieces like that but we have got pin bones to deal with so the pin bones are like the little ribs if you scrape this fish you'll see them and i just simply use a little pair of tweezers or you could use clean pliers just to remove those bones it's nice to remove that and then there we go we've got our lovely fish right there when you buy affiliated fish it's been touched and bashed around and kind of exposed more if you want to enjoy the best of fish you learn to master it yourself it's really good fun let me show you another little technique go to the end of the fish go down to the skin and you can actually angle the knife under the skin and what i want to do is achieve two things pressing down of the blade and angling of the blade to the skin and then do the kind of little it's a beautiful gentle action and then we've got that skin that comes off like that so we've removed the skin there see how close that is almost look right off and of course once you've got a filleted piece of salmon again cut it into little scallops there's another couple of ways of treating this as well you might want to slice it into steaks little six ounce steaks you can just do a light little score so we can season in there and also it looks pretty this little slice of salmon gets cooked in a minute's time a minute in a hot pan this is what my wife uses all the time for the kids very very beautiful that's how to fill it a salmon trout or sea trout you can see down here a whole bunch of different preparations that hopefully you'll find useful and remember if you want to see any other talent from foodtube cooking beautiful fish dishes then check them out down here and if you like it like it if you want to comment comment and of course please share it on your social media so your friends know how to fill it a fish and you never know they might cook it for you bye guys you