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A few days later, Naiser headed home to Louisville, Ky., after a stop in Michigan, where he dropped off the fish—49 pounds, 63.5 inches—to be filleted and mounted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

Ezra Klein gets filleted on the regular—same with Maureen Dowd.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025

By the time the crew filleted her an hour later, most of her scales had oxidized to a dull gray.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Her black hair seems filleted with the band of white at its roots.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston