Filet knife (Page 4): Stone and a steel👍...

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Barnacles wrote:

And there's a key word: SHARP. You want your knif... (show quote)

Stone and a steel👍

wainemaine Loc: western mountains, Maine

Every fishing boat in New Bedford, Ma. has Dexters on board. AND those cheap Swiss Army Steak knives for cutting rope, the 1s with the red plastic handles.

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

wainemaine wrote:

Every fishing boat in New Bedford, Ma. has Dexters on board. AND those cheap Swiss Army Steak knives for cutting rope, the 1s with the red plastic handles.

I'm TELLING YOU!!; the cheap steak knife is "¡Da Bomb!", when it comes to parting any kind of poly-line.

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Dexter also makes knives / serrated edges; ... Talk about flat-out butchering a hog in a hurry... I'm a little bit "light" as far as the knife assortment goes right now, but, I'm soon to remedy that. (I hope.)

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Take a look at the Benchmade Meatcrafter. I would love to give that thing a workout. It's only $300. Man they make some nice knives. But come on man.

USAF Major Loc: Sea Bright, NJ

Look into DEXTER! I've got one from the 30s though not much left to it.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Susan don't be like some others on here and never get back to us. Please let us know what you decide on, how it works out, and if any of our comments were helpful at all?

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

Jeremy wrote:

YUP

The best Filet knife for large salmon is actually called a BONING KNIFE. IT also works good for ski nning deer and Elk.

Electric knives work really well.

The tail section of this fish behind the ribs was over 6” and it only weighed 23 pounds. So not a “large” salmon.

bobber22 Loc: Ocala, Florida

As a past commercial salmon buyer this is the way we classified salmon. Under 6 pounds was a small. 6-12 was a medium and over 12 was a large. 23 pounds is definitely a large. I would guess given the size of the pieces of flesh you show, that this was what we called a torpedo, very long and skinny. My suspicion is that it was a male fish. Females tend to have smaller heads and usually stay pretty girthy toward the tail.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bobber22 wrote:

As a past commercial salmon buyer this is the way we classified salmon. Under 6 pounds was a small. 6-12 was a medium and over 12 was a large. 23 pounds is definitely a large. I would guess given the size of the pieces of flesh you show, that this was what we called a torpedo, very long and skinny. My suspicion is that it was a male fish. Females tend to have smaller heads and usually stay pretty girthy toward the tail.

It’s a male winter king out of Kachamak bay up in Alaska. We don’t catch a lot of females up there in October and November for some reason. A few but more males for sure. We catch a bunch over 25 and have some over 30. My PB up there is a 35 pound female about 7 years ago. The white ones are primo but we get one of those out of about every 50 fish.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bobber22 wrote:

As a past commercial salmon buyer this is the way we classified salmon. Under 6 pounds was a small. 6-12 was a medium and over 12 was a large. 23 pounds is definitely a large. I would guess given the size of the pieces of flesh you show, that this was what we called a torpedo, very long and skinny. My suspicion is that it was a male fish. Females tend to have smaller heads and usually stay pretty girthy toward the tail.

Here’s a good female we got. Must be a large. It was about 17 pounds.

bobber22 Loc: Ocala, Florida

YES I agree the white ones are primo. In all my years as a wholesale buyer in California I don't believe I landed more than half a dozen of the white ones--they went home with me. Thanks for backing me up on the male fish call. Looks like great fare. God bless.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bobber22 wrote:

YES I agree the white ones are primo. In all my years as a wholesale buyer in California I don't believe I landed more than half a dozen of the white ones--they went home with me. Thanks for backing me up on the male fish call. Looks like great fare. God bless.

You’re welcome. Anyone who has fished for salmon for a while would probably know that but not many here have done it a whole lot. When I go to Alaska we catch 20 a day and I go for 10 days every fall. When I was in Oregon we were not allowed to keep very many so most people don’t have the opportunity to go with a group of guys who can catch and keep very many. A boat with 6 guys in it can catch and keep 6 fish normally. Sometimes 12 depending on the year, the season and the regulations. Where I go we have guys with Alaskan proxies on the boat. That means they can catch and keep a whole bunch of fish and you can help them. That’s how we can catch 20 a day with 4 or 5 people on the boat. Plus we CAN catch that many. In the lower 48 it’s not as easy to catch that many in a day.

bobber22 Loc: Ocala, Florida

My record as a commercial fisherman happened in the banner year of 1983. Opening day I got 78 fish. Even the old timers said they had never seen a day like that one. I had fish on deck with wet burlap bags over them and had to keep hosing them down. Never forget that day I was totally exhausted and couldn't wait to get the fish off the boat and get the boat cleaned up. Once all that was done I popped a beer and fell asleep on deck without finishing the beer.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bobber22 wrote:

My record as a commercial fisherman happened in the banner year of 1983. Opening day I got 78 fish. Even the old timers said they had never seen a day like that one. I had fish on deck with wet burlap bags over them and had to keep hosing them down. Never forget that day I was totally exhausted and couldn't wait to get the fish off the boat and get the boat cleaned up. Once all that was done I popped a beer and fell asleep on deck without finishing the beer.

One of the guys from Homer that fishes with us is 97 years old. He’s been in Alaska since 1955. It wasn’t even Alaska then. He tells the story of fishing the Kenai River in home made wooden drift boats that were about 20 feet long and your limit was when you couldn’t stay on the the boat any more because there were too many fish in it. They just drifted down the river with hand nets over the side scooping them up. Then they’d process the fish and deliver them to all the folks on the peninsula that needed food. He says they caught lots of king salmon over 100 pounds back then. I’ve seen one that was 85 pounds but I wasn’t there when they caught it. It was only 6 years ago when it was caught in Prince William sound.