Rockport Report

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Pat, love to meet up somewhere to see your buzz saw tools. We are pretty flexible as to where / when as I am on the tail end of the house project and my heath has improved a bit - allowing a bit of get away time.

I will be hitting Echo soon to see if I can find those crappie

And we plan on chasing cats hard the next few weeks

My schedule is probably more flexible than yours.  So let me know what you have planned and I will try to show up at a mutually convenient spot.

You've had some good input from others.  Ultimately you will have to make your own choice(s).  Over the years I have personally used just about everything on the market and have my own opinions.  Not to offend any of the other posters but I have been unhappy with the Mister Twister.  They are affordable but underpowered for my tastes.  I went through three of them in less than two years.  Rapalas?  Decent, but the blades are designed with sharp points that tend to rip into skin on the skinning process and don't do as well on thin-skinned fish.  American Anglers are still in my bag...and still get used.  But the Bubbas are better.

Here are a few pictures from my fillet knife past...including one of a terrible ergonomics one with a blue handle.  To operate this rechargeable battery model you had to simultaneously press two buttons...which was almost impossible with one hand.  To use it I epoxyed one of the buttons permanently in place.  It filleted okay but the batteries only lasted for a few fish.


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