Fillet can you see?

Ive recently started keeping and eating more fish, as I want to live a healthier lifestyle, and my wife cant get enough....fish that is   Naturally Ive decided to step up my processing game, and recently bought a nice Dexter fillet knife, inspired by O2b and his taliban fillet sword.  What type of knives do you use, and what do you reccomend?

What kind of fish do you plan on keeping? Where do you fish from?

I use the dexter also love it. Just keep it away from bloodbath


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I generally only keep rockfish, lingcod, etc.....If I could fool a halibut, Im sure I would take it home!  Ive had decent success with my cheap rapala knives, but I DID notice a difference when I held Uncle O2b's sword (maybe I shouldn't have said that  ) Im anxious to use the dexter, it feels sharper out of the box than Ive ever been able to get my other knives, and it has a nice weight to it too.  Ive seen the Phil Wilson Knives, but at $400 a pop, I dont think I can justify it 

I went thru a number of knives in the following order. My latest favorite is a Victorinox short butcher together with a wusthof 12" salmon knife for skinning. This combo handles 99% of the fillet job I'll ever do.
Good luck.

ernest

I've been using Forschner knives for my fillet work.
I think Forschner is owned by Victorinox or vise versa. Pro-cure sells them on-line

+1 on the Dexter's    Ridiculasly sharp out of the package!  Wish it came with a sheath though, but for the price it's a great option out there.  Also love the big no-slip handle 

+1 on the Dexter's    Ridiculasly sharp out of the package!  Wish it came with a sheath though

Bought a 7" and 9" from their website and they came with sheaths.  I don't remember them being that expensive although it was 4 years ago.

I use a rapala 9" fillet blade. It survived a week of fillet sockeye salmon twice (almost 200 fish each time) as long as you keep it sharp. I knew an eskimo deckhand who got a frosting knife and sharpened it up to make one hell of a fillet knife. He could go theough  50 pound halibut in no time flat (no pun intended)

I have a big Dexter "breaking knife" that works for big fish and sandab head removal, and I use an ancient cheap unknown brand fillet knife for standard fish.

 I have a nice imported fillet knife but I find it is tough to sharpen because the steel is too hard, and for rockies I like the softer cheap steel/easy to sharpen blade.

got a dexter with a sheath - never owned anything else - great knife

Put me in the rapala camp.  They don't keep an edge as long as others but they flex well and sharpen like a razor.  Plus they're cheap and readily available......and I tend to loose, lend or leave knives behind like crazy. 

I've been intending on picking up some forschners though, probably soon now that I've seen this thread.   

Saw this knife advertised on a fishing show a month or so ago.  Can't speak to the knife but the website sure looks appealing. 

Back when I was a teenager, I was a partyboat deckhand and cut fish daily.  Dexter-Russell was the knife and for me, still is.  I found the white handle stainless knives weren't as flexible as the steel knives and I couldn't get the razor edge of the steel.  No one I knew used the stainless for filleting.  I mostly used the 8" steel knives and went through a few.  Very flexible for fast cleaning.  For chopping heads, the bigger stainless are fine.  I now use the below pictured 9" steal though I miss the 8".

Back when I was a teenager, I was a partyboat deckhand and cut fish daily.  Dexter-Russell was the knife and for me, still is.  I found the white handle stainless knives weren't as flexible as the steel knives and I couldn't get the razor edge of the steel.  No one I knew used the stainless for filleting.  I mostly used the 8" steel knives and went through a few.  Very flexible for fast cleaning.  For chopping heads, the bigger stainless are fine.  I now use the below pictured 9" steal though I miss the 8".

I have of one those that's over 20 years old.  No longer my favorite but a still a good knife.  I got it at Capt. Johns Sportfishing store in HMB when they were still around. The blade has held pretty well.