Some opinions on a good Fillet knife please . . .

That knife you’re inquiring about is a vintage carbon steel French Sabatier knife.  It belonged to my father.  It could be over 60 years old.

The bolster pommel, the tang and the blade are all forged from the same solid piece of steel.  The guard has always been square, like that.

The knife sharpens well and easily. I like the patina.  It keeps it from being very reactive. I like to use it for trimming silver skin from tenderloins.

As an oddball comment, I thought I’d mention recently seeing a fellow on TV filleting fish with a serrated fillet knife.  Has anyone here seen one?

Dumb question.  Google shows a bunch of them, including Rapala, Bubba, BergHOFF and all of the electric filleting knives.

My sister and her husband have a condo on the ocean side, just south of Canaveral and we have several friends on the gulf side.  I used to frequently visit the West Palm area on business.  We figured out that most of the snowbirds on the ocean side are from the northeast, while most on the gulf side are midwesterners.  I think part of the reason is financial and tied to property values.  Medium incomes are lower in the midwest.  But a big part might be that midwesterners are more comfortable with other midwesterners – hence the “more relaxed” feeling.

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Marc H wrote:

I was always told it has more to do with I-95 on east coast FL goes to the NE USA, ” the eastern corridor” and I-75 on W side of FL goes N in US to the mid west, ” the western corridor”. I’m just a native Floridian, so what would I know?

Could be.  The few times I’ve made the trip, I75 put me right on the Florida Turnpike, which took me to the ocean side.

There’s another facet to this that flips my theory upside down.  After spending almost all of my life within 20 miles of Lake Michigan, the compass in my brain is burned in with east being toward a large body of water.  So, whenever I am in California, I get confused when someone refers to something being “to the east.”  My brain points me to the ocean.  When I was in Florida (always on the ocean side) everything was perfectly normal because there was water to the east.  So maybe there’s something hard-wired in our brains which tells us where to go.

I share you folks direction issue. I grew up on the Jersey shore. My dad had a boat in 1957 and I stayed until I sold my last boat in 1988. I moved to Utah in 2015 and figuring direction is tough without my bearings on the ocean! (Maybe I need my old LORAN!). It seems to me we use to use the Rapala filet knives and a Gerber Musky. They served the purpose at the time.

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Hello, new to the forum. I was also in the hunt for a good filet knife with decent steel recently. I ended up getting a North Arms 6″ filet knife with CPM S35VN steel. They also have a larger 9″ version. So far I’m happy with it with the two trout I have cut up with it.  Quality carbon fiber handles and an interesting finish on the CNC’d blade. -Chad

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