Whats your favorite knife?

abayellowback · 1 Whats your favorite knife? Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:43 pm

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Mine is the Mister Twister [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Makes fillets out of a fish in like 30 seconds. I used it to carve every roast or prime rib or fish we ever caught (and that's a LOT).
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Jerdon · 2 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:24 pm

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The old Rapala Fish N Fillet for trout or pan fish size, and a Buck 121 for bass and anything bigger.

SP Dan · 3 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:51 pm

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I really don't have a favorite but these are my fillet knives to choose from:

PRO-SHARP
EKCO
VICTORENOX

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I keep 'em all razor sharp and always ready when needed. These knives always get the job done for me.

I am a 100% CPR fisherman, when it comes to our polluted local SW surf and our inner harbors

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abayellowback · 4 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:41 pm

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Jerdon wrote:The old Rapala Fish N Fillet for trout or pan fish size, and a Buck 121 for bass and anything bigger.

What's your opinion on that knife? The leather case looks amazing.

Jerdon · 5 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:56 pm

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abayellowback wrote:

Jerdon wrote:The old Rapala Fish N Fillet for trout or pan fish size, and a Buck 121 for bass and anything bigger.

What's your opinion on that knife? The leather case looks amazing.

The Rapala is super flexible and narrow, so it is great for smaller fish. The Buck is good for getting through tougher skin and longer cuts, but is not flexible and can't follow the rib cage as well as the Rapala on smaller fish.

Troutbum · 6 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:52 pm

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SP Dan wrote:I really don't have a favorite but these are my fillet knives to choose from:

PRO-SHARP
EKCO
VICTORENOX

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I keep 'em all razor sharp and always ready when needed. These knives always get the job done for me.

I am a 100% CPR fisherman, when it comes to our polluted local SW surf and our inner harbors

SP Dan <"))><

How do you sharpen them? I am not very good at sharpening.

kin · 7 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:27 pm

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I use a cheapie south bend one I got years ago. It works, but I hate how hard it is to keep it sharp. I use one of those "V" shaped diamond dust sharpeners. Keeps my regular knives in great shape, but that filet knife doesn't seem to hold the edge as well.

Troutbum · 8 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:41 am

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kin wrote:I use a cheapie south bend one I got years ago. It works, but I hate how hard it is to keep it sharp. I use one of those "V" shaped diamond dust sharpeners. Keeps my regular knives in great shape, but that filet knife doesn't seem to hold the edge as well.

Thanks for the info!

Troutbum · 9 Re: Whats your favorite knife? Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:53 am

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I like this small knife I use when hiking to clean small fish. Its not for filleting fish. Its a EESE CR 2.5