Electric or Old School

[elkhunter]

Beautiful knife slackline!!

[Lonnie84]

American anglers are dang hard to find in stores and I dont know why? If I had a store I would want a quality product stocked in it so it would help build my stores reputation. At one time they were in alot of stores but then suddenly was not anymore. They got hard to find.

I believe I saw some on a shelf at hatchet jacks in North Little Rock as well.

There showing the gold handle one is available here:


American Angler Pro EFK with 8" Freshwater and Shark Blades - Walmart.com

[slackline]

Thanks for the complements guys. I just prefer to do many things manually or traditionally. I feel like I get more out of the whole experience of whatever it is. I have seen some guys that are very fast with a traditional fixed blade fillet knife. I am not that fast, I guess you have to fish more than I get to for that.

[wicklundrh]

Been using Forschner Knives for years now. Won two salmon cleaning events with one. I also own a couple of Bubba blades and several old school rapala knives as well as some custom fillet knives. The Forschner out cleans all of them.

I've tried electric. I don't think they are as accurate or as fast as a good sharp hand fillet knife. Did 32 walleye start to finish (including de boning) in under 45 minutes the other day. That includes rinsing, washing, cleaning the table and having two beverages.

[Lonnie84]

Been using Forschner Knives for years now. Won two salmon cleaning events with one. I also own a couple of Bubba blades and several old school rapala knives as well as some custom fillet knives. The Forschner out cleans all of them.

I've tried electric. I don't think they are as accurate or as fast as a good sharp hand fillet knife. Did 32 walleye start to finish (including de boning) in under 45 minutes the other day. That includes rinsing, washing, cleaning the table and having two beverages.

I'll have to google them up, don't think I have ever heard of Forschner Knives. That 32 in 45 sounds impressive; Bubba Knife has a video showing how quick they are you should do one with the Forschner and post.

[slackline]

It doesn't surprise me that the Forschner is a great knife. It's made by Victorinox, same company that makes some of the best Swiss Army Knives.

[swollencrappie]

Video on Youtube of a guy in Stillwater, Ok using a Cabelas fillet knife. Pretty good I would say. Lot faster then I could ever do it. https://youtu.be/B8BvdvJFAug

[smashdn]

I use a plain ole fashion Rapala filet knife. Just keep em sharp and carry on.

Same here. Just clean and sharpen it.

I watched people with an electric cleaning bluegills and redear the other day. Guy with the electric cut off the side but wife with a regular knife had to go back and get the skin/scales off and cut out the rib bones.

I just use the fillet knife and go around all that, flip the fillet onto the skin side and cut off the skin.

[mildot1]

I limit my catches (or at least take home) to twenty no matter the fish . Bream always get the hand knife and crappie get the ele. variety.since I scale then fillet time is to long on huge numbers . Heck I have already put up (not counting those eaten fresh) 25 quart bags of 20-35 bream fillets and 5 bags of crappie .

Just for the info. Why do you scale then fillet??

Thx
Brad

[CrappiePappy]

Just for the info. Why do you scale then fillet??

Thx
Brad

Likely that he prefers the meat with the skin on, but still without bones. The skin does add a hint of a sweet, nutty flavor to the fish IMHO.