BEST FILLET KNIVES!!?

[Hanr3]

I hand sharpen with Arkansas Sharpening Stones and honing oil. Have for the last 35 years. I get my blades sharp enough to shave the hair off my arm, literally. When I can shave, they are sharp. I've tried just about every method out there, nothing gets close to a whetstone.

Great thread, also reminds me its time to sharpen the kitchen knifes.

[arkansasbowhunter]

X2 on hard to mess up a knife with the work sharp. I don't work for them and not affiliated with Em but I have let a lot of people use mine that have went out and bought one after using mine lol.

[Big John in TN]

My favorite was always the Normark folding fillet knife, good high carbon stainless blade and very handy. Just fold it up and put it in your pocket. I think you can still find them on Ebay. I always lose the ones with the sheaths. Any Rapala or Normark are good. The Dexter and Forschner are very good knives. I hit my knives on a Dexter butcher's steel every now and then to keep them sharp, vey fast and easy.

[Machine]

The best electric is the new American angler.

Best fixed is a Randall knife

[cva34]

It's hard to beat a rapala about $12. There very sharp.

I have to agree..good price ,sharpen easy ,flex consistent,cheap to replace when loose or misplace sell everywhere

[Tom 513]

I was going to ask how everyone sharpens there knives, but I see it has been talked about. I nomally use one of the hand held sharpers between filleting duties, then found out My local hardware store that I love sharpens knives, so I had them sharpen my BPS knife it has serration for cutting through the rib cage, and My Rapala, well they came back duller then when I took them in. I used to sharpen knives on a stone, but just dont have the patience and steadiness anymore.

[sky hawk]

I'll save you some time:

Dexter Russell Sani-Safe S115F-6MO Softgrip Flexible Boning knife

$15, cheap, good, buy two. I've got the $100 Cutco, but this is the knife I reach for to clean crappie.

[RayP]

I really like my Dexter Russell sold through American Legacy

American Legacy Fishing Co. - World's Best Fillet Knife - G Loomis Superstore

I use it for all my fish and haven't used an electric since I bought it.

[reeldad]

The Black & Decker electric from Wal-Mart will last forever, and is very sharp. I'm going on 6 yrs now with mine !!!!! Fixed blade it's hard to beat the old standard Rapala.

[RayP]

I fished with a guide (Jim Doom) that specializes in the rivers below Ky and Barkley dams. He probably fillets around 50-100 lbs of cats and white bass a day that he guides.

He uses an electric knife off an inverter on his boat battery. I asked him what the best electric knife is. He held up a white Hamilton Beach electric knife and said "$25 at Wal-Mart"

He said he gets 6 months to a year out of one.