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Okay, so I don't really care. But, I live with my friend who I work with and my girlfriend who I love to death. (Living with gf should be it's own rave, but, another day) And, this guy at work had gone fishing in the morning and then come straight to work from the lake (yes, we have a shower here). He's got 7 bass on ice in the back of his truck (yeah, fish, beer would have been better though) and doesn't want to clean them, so he gives them to my roomate.

Well, I come home and he's cleaning them in the kitchen sink which doesn't bother me although I would have done it out by the hose. But, whatever, I grab my filet knife and start to help. He cleans one of the fish and leaves for his softball game saying he'd clean whatever I didn't get done when he got back and fry them up. I said okay. Well, about 3 fish into it, my gf comes out of her room to see me doing this and pitches a fit.....

Long story short, we went to the gym and while we were lifting this led to her concluding I don't like nice things, we need to buy a house (though we're moving in a year or two tops), I need to settle down, I am disgusting and she can't live with me anymore. Given, cleaning fish in the kitchen isn't kosher, but, holy [expletive], I didn't know it would lead to that.

That's pretty harsh.

I think something was building up for awhile. The fish cleaning seemed to have been the straw that broke the camels back.

cardinalkarp wrote:I think something was building up for awhile. The fish cleaning seemed to have been the straw that broke the camels back.

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She got pissed at you for fileting something in a kitchen. Ahahaaha

haltz wrote:She got pissed at you for fileting something in a kitchen. Ahahaaha

I'm not sure it was the fileting part as opposed to more of the gutting them part.

cardinalkarp wrote:

haltz wrote:She got pissed at you for fileting something in a kitchen. Ahahaaha

I'm not sure it was the fileting part as opposed to more of the gutting them part.

Please, it takes two seconds and you don't have to set up a cutting board outside etc. As long as he wasn't planning on leaving the remains inside the house, it seems like a huge overreaction.

haltz wrote:

cardinalkarp wrote:

haltz wrote:She got pissed at you for fileting something in a kitchen. Ahahaaha

I'm not sure it was the fileting part as opposed to more of the gutting them part.

Please, it takes two seconds and you don't have to set up a cutting board outside etc. As long as he wasn't planning on leaving the remains inside the house, it seems like a huge overreaction.

Hell I don't know, I've never gutted a fish. I figured it could get messy.

Filleting a trout is pointless imo, so I always gut them. It's really not messy, a simple incision up the belly, snap the head back to break the cartlidge, reach in and pull the gills through the gill opening, and pull. Everything comes out in one piece if you do it right. The hard part with trout is after the guts have been removed, there is a sac of blood along the spine that has to be removed and cleaned thoroughly. I use my thumbnail and scrape while rinsing it under a faucet.

Now with sunfish (bass, bluegill), you have to scale them and that is really the messy part. Any fish that needs scaling is done outside, trout do not need scaled. Not only that, I always cook trout with the head attached as well, that's what fancy restaurants do so why not add a touch of class to the operation?