Walleye wings?

Hi Guys and Gals,

Cleaned some walleyes and harvested the fillets, cheeks, and the walleye wings. Have never harvested the wing portion of walleyes before and look forward to frying them up and trying them. Couple days ago we cleaned some crappies and got to thinking if you can harvest the wing portion of these. Anybody ever try it with crappies? Just curious if it would work?

Never tried crappies before but the walleye seem to not have much meat for the effort of cleaning that portion imo.

I’m not sure there’d be much meat on a crappie wing but it wouldn’t hurt to give it a try. I keep wings from big white bass we get at Devils Lake in addition to walleyes and they aren’t bad either.

I keep wings all summer and then use them for football snacks later on in the year.

Do you descale the wings?

Where the he!! are the wings located?

Chuck100, not sure how to attach link for video but if you search walleye wings there are some good videos out there that explain it.

Blackbay, check out video from anglingedge on walleye cheeks and wings. He talks about it. I haven’t cooked them before but looked tasty.

Jenson, seemed semi easy to harvest the wings and the walleyes we had were just eater size and they have a nice chunk of meat from what I could tell.

Karry, how do you prepare the white bass wings?

chuck100 wrote:

Where the he!! are the wings located?

the cut under the throat with the fins(wings) the chunky eyes have a decent chunk of meat under there. i wouldn’t be saving the wings from 16 inchers.

Armchair biology tells me the fatty belly area of the fish such as a wing would carry more contaminates than other meat.

I don’t often keep the wings, but when I do they are from cold clean water fish and they are absolutely delicious. Very little to do with taste for me, the texture is what sets it apart. Reminds me of a scallop.

Do you take off the skin and fins?

Mr. Beads, I thought about the contaminates also. Thats why I thought smaller legal fish was the way to go. Not sure though.

Welliou, from video’s I have seen just clean them up. Check out the angling edge video on walleye wings and see what you think.

Appreciate you guys replying because the use of the wings is all new to me.

jeff-pb-crappie-16.5 wrote:

Chuck100, not sure how to attach link for video but if you search <em class=”ido-tag-em”>walleye wings there are some good videos out there that explain it.

Blackbay, check out video from anglingedge on walleye cheeks and wings. He talks about it. I haven’t cooked them before but looked tasty.

Jenson, seemed semi easy to harvest the wings and the walleyes we had were just eater size and they have a nice chunk of meat from what I could tell.

Karry, how do you prepare the white <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>bass wings?

I deep fry white bass wings just like walleye wings.

I’ve tried it with perch, crappie and northern and not much meat on those species

Thanks Craig.

Walleye Cheeks are better.

I agree… Tried them out in Devils lake and wasn’t a fan!