A fishing trip?

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Okay, you're in Key West Florida on that fishing trip you've been planning for a long time. The 'ol lady is back home and you and a few pals are off on an Ernest Hemingway adventure. Fishing for Marlin out in the Florida Straits by day, cold brews at Sloppy Joe's at night till the bar stool bucks ya off. Cutting bait by day, slicing limes for those cold Corona long necks when the sun goes down.

What knife is in your pocket?

WWHC?

(What would Hemingway carry?)

Edit to add; I forgot to put down my choice. I think it would be a toss up between a Eye-brand stag sodbuster, or an old red bone Case barlow.
 
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I'd picture Hemingway carrying a teardrop jack while he's writing in his moleskine notebook. Also, he's smoking up a storm.
 
Well, maybe jackknife's a night owl, but it's only 21:49 here. However, I did just drink a pot of coffee, so we'll see what happens.
 
jackknife said:
WWHC?
(What would Hemingway carry?)
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A Laguiole, a gift from his first wife. Bought at the Laguiole shop at #1, Place-Sainte-Opportune in Paris when they were still young, and in love. Too fancy a knife for a tackle box, with a corkscrew that never got much use in the Keys. The olivewood handles were dark with sweat and salt water. But a fine, thin blade that took a wicked edge. He never took it out without thinking of her.

(Apologies to Papa:). )
 
My Robeson slim line Trapper; Hemingway I have no idea. This would also be a good excuse to invest in a good Texas toothpick in SS for me!
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I'm gonna say a well used 4 blade Congress with nice worn bone scales. Nice old pattern and very versatile.
 
For me a Trapper. For 'Papa' an old and trusted Russell Barlow.. He's got plenty of good carbon steel bladed fillet knives and fixed blades on the boat to fillet fish and cut bait.

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Berkley,

I like your thoughtful post. You are a romantic at heart. :D :thumbup:
 
Berkley said:
A Laguiole, a gift from his first wife. Bought at the Laguiole shop at #1, Place-Sainte-Opportune in Paris when they were still young, and in love. Too fancy a knife for a tackle box, with a corkscrew that never got much use in the Keys. The olivewood handles were dark with sweat and salt water. But a fine, thin blade that took a wicked edge. He never took it out without thinking of her.

(Apologies to Papa:). )
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I love it! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
I would take a Case 48 pattern SS blade, black G-10 covers.... If it became lost, you would still have money for those Coronas, important things first....:)
 
Hemingway was a man of many adventures and I think he would've picked something up during his travels. I'm going to go against the grain and pick something other than a slipjoint. I think he would've carried something more exotic, like this Navaja.

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The horn handles would be just the thing in a fishing knife, and wouldn't take on a fishy smell like wood, horn, or bone.
 
I'd carry;

Spyderco yellow handled Pacific Salt - no rusting issues to worry about ;)
Okay, okay, not a traditional blade, you say, in that case, I'd carry my yellow Case CV Trapper and make sure it got a good rinsing and mineral oiling after I was done

I could see Hemingway using a carbon steel filet knife on the boat, and something simple and traditional at the bar, like a Canoe or Eisenhower pattern with the carbon blade well patina-ed but with a razor sharp cutting edge
 
An old cheap Imperial toothpick with a scaler. It would have old cracked yellow plastic handle. He would also have a SAK in his pocket also
 
I say a large Fiddleback ,AKA Cokebottle hunter.
-Vince
 
Young Ernie at age 5 fishing the back waters on Walloon Lake, Michigan in 1904..

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Hemingway as a lad of 29 fishing in Key West, Florida in 1928..

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I'm calling it,, lunch time!. :D :thumbup:

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Some cheap robust Spanish peasant knife he picked up in the Civil War, to remind him of what he saw.
 
I think the main knife he carried was a handmade knife. I saw it on a book one time, it was stag handled, large blade, small blade, saw and a cork screw on the back. Also, believe it had a piece of elephant ivory at the base of the handle. I'm not sure if it was handmade or not. Maybe made by Kendal? But I know he carried several different knives. I have seen, in Cuba, on his desk a knife that resembled a Laguiole. Also, in one of Hotchner's books about him, Hotch say's Hemingway pulled out a large Clasp switch blade!!!
 
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