[Gerry Zagorski]

I watched Steve aka ALS Mako butterfly one up on the RFA trip.

If you are familiar with filleting a fish it's very much like that, but you leave the fillets on each side of the snapper...

You need a very sharp fillet knife. Make a cut right above the tail where the meat starts and run your knife up the bones of the fish and stop just before the gills. Turn the fish on the other side and do the same...

Send a hook through the nose and your done... Those 2 attached fillets flutter real nice in the water giving some life to the dead snapper.

I've seen the same done with whole mackerel and bluefish for shark baits...

Learning something new all the time thanks to the people on this site.