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    And if you want to make any electric knife a whole lot better buy yourself a set of shark blades for it. You'll never use stock blades again.

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    I bought the Mister Twister electric fillet knife last year. I done probably 300 fish since then and it still works perfectly. Great buy! Here is the package picture when I got it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamesdean View Post
    In my opinion, catfish need to be skinned then filleted. As stated before, I have no experience with an electric knife, but quite a bit with a bladed knife. Someone with more experience filleting catfish with an electric knife will chime in here...
    Not hard at all to fillet catfish with an electric knife without skinning, you just leave a little bit of meat on the skin, that meat you leave is very red and fishy tasting anyways, especially on the bigger ones. The trick is to use the electric knife to put pressure on the meat to stretch it and the skin to make it easier to cut, hard to explain on here but easy to do once you figure it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BuckeyeFishing View Post
    I have always filleted fish using a manual knife. I have a small Rapala knife and a larger one, both I sharpen with a Work Sharp and they hold a pretty good edge. I used an electric fillet knife before and wasn't a fan. When I fillet with a manual knife I can feel the backbone and the rib bones, with an electric it just saws right threw them.
    You can't just pickup an electric knife and be a master of it right away, there are techniques and "feel" that you gain for it over time. I never enjoyed the manual knife, I can burn through fish twice as fast with the electric knife, which is especially handy when doing big messes of bluegill that my kids love to catch.

    I also believe the electric knife is safer than a manual knife. It cuts by a sawing action with a serrated blade, in all my years of using them, I have yet to cut myself with one.

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    i got the 15 dollar one form walmart tbh i dont like it very much im afraid i may have damaged it by hitting the backbone of a catfish not sure but if i can change blades thats b great as long as they will fit it

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    Quote Originally Posted by matt1991 View Post
    i got the 15 dollar one form walmart tbh i dont like it very much im afraid i may have damaged it by hitting the backbone of a catfish not sure but if i can change blades thats b great as long as they will fit it

    What's it doing wrong? I've cut through many catfish backbones with zero problems.

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    Here's what I use. WalMart & BassPro carry them in different sizes. Does great unless I've got a bunch of 2 lb slabs.........which I don't usually have because most of the time I let those big ones go. I'm more of a 1 lb kinda guy.......they're the best eating in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by matt1991 View Post
    my god i butchered the hell out of this 4 pound channel catfish i caught today just got the electric fillet knife u guys recomended and i got it t filet but i couldnt make it fillet the skin off so ended up wasting about 40% of the meat i hope crappie will b easier im gonna scale my crappie first just t make sure will suck if i do the same when i catch a few since u can eat crappie with the skin on
    Did you skin it first?


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    Try a couple of crappie like this and see if you like the taste of them. Use a spoon to scrape or scale them, then fillet them leaving the skin on. That's how I do them and they're always gone after we have a fish fry. GTT
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