How to avoid bones in homemade fish fingers?

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I'd really like to make fish fingers for my boys but bit worried about leaving bones in for them to choke on. How do you get round this? Ta.

If you run your fingers over each piece of fish before you coat it, you can normally feel any bones and remove them (and any you can't feel are probably so small it doesn't matter). Maybe I've just been lucky but as far as I know I've never served up a bone in the last 5 years of making them fairly regularly.

Thanks x

I agree, feel the fish very carefully. If there are any bones, pick them out with either tweezers or long nose pliers ( whichever are most handy). However once you understand the fish you will generally know where the bones are likely to be, so you can avoid them ( put the fish to one side and feed it to an adult).

I meant if you are unsure about any bit of fish, feed it to an adult not a kid.

If you choose a tail end of haddock or cod, from a fishmonger if possible , or a fish counter, there shouldn't be any bones., but it tends to be a bit thin. Or use cod loin -there really shouldn't be any bones in that - nice and thick too :)