Mike Hehner demonstrates the best way to fillet a northern pike. Looking for some Northern Pike recipies?Check out these Northern Pike recipies If you go too fast your first couple of times, it is easy to make a mess of the fillet. This Baked Northern Pike came from the ice cold, literally, water near the end of the ice fishing season of 2016-2017. The result will be five boneless fillets from each pike. Remove skin and ribs, and you have a bone-free fillet. Place the fillet knife against the back of the head, just behind the gills, and cut straight down to the backbone. Perchmaster April 17, 2009 at 11:08 pm Reply. Select a fillet knife with a blade at least 6-inches long. How to Fillet a Northern Pike. To learn how to easily skin the tail fillet, keep reading! Perhaps you may have heard someone say "I really do like northern pike, but it's so full of bones!" 2 cloves of garlic, crushed. wikiHow's Content Management Team carefully monitors the work from our editorial staff to ensure that each article is backed by trusted research and meets our high quality standards. Report. By removing the Y-bones you make a good meal even better. To remove the top fillet, cup upwards along the angle of the back fin. % of people told us that this article helped them. We know ads can be annoying, but they’re what allow us to make all of wikiHow available for free. Includes Y-Bone Removal DNR Fish Biologist: Max Wolter. Bigger fish are of course better but this method works wonders for both big and small fish.Northern Pike have bones going through the whole body but they do not reach around the top of the fish. 3:35. I always wanted to learn this. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/a\/a1\/Clean-and-Fillet-a-Northern-Pike-Step-1-Version-3.jpg\/v4-460px-Clean-and-Fillet-a-Northern-Pike-Step-1-Version-3.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/a\/a1\/Clean-and-Fillet-a-Northern-Pike-Step-1-Version-3.jpg\/aid23224-v4-728px-Clean-and-Fillet-a-Northern-Pike-Step-1-Version-3.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":"728","bigHeight":"546","licensing":"