Buck for fishing?

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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I am kinda looking for one knife to carry fishing, to use for everything including cleaning fish.

Which is why I don't want a fillet knife, but more of a jack of all trades knife. I am thinking about a 105, but no stores around here stock them, so I would order one without handling it.

Anyone clean fish with a 105?

How it go?
 
While a very similar knives, TL...er BCCL, the 105 will stand-up to general use much better, which I think is your goal.

Dave
 
I've cleaned many a fish with a 110. Works just fine for scaling and gutting. I can't say anything about the 105, never owned one.
 
I was actually considering a 110, I've not tried to clean a fish with one yet, but the blade profile seems close to a 105.
 
We need to back up and ask what kind of fishing you are planning on doing?
 
Would you use a 110 on this one, or maybe a 124......?
Caught this one opening day last year. No salmon fishing allowed off the coast of Kalifornia this year......


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Mike
 
The 121 is SUCH a handy and well-balanced knife.

Mine has become my one favorite cooking knife and I suspect if I went camping and fishing.......it would be on my hip.

Go to e-Bay.....and as long as you're doing it.....might as well get an old one of 440C.

Old scratched up blades go pretty cheap and can be cleaned up to be respectable and cherished companions.
 
Pack Rat said:
We need to back up and ask what kind of fishing you are planning on doing?
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Mostly Pan Fish, Crappie, Breem (Bluegill to you Yankees :D ), and such, with the occasional Bass or Catfish.

I guess the easiest way would be just clean one with a 110 as see!
 
BCCL, Watch across the bay for one of the Calif. Toothpicks that are being sold with BUCK Ground off the tang. It's only cosmetic and if it goes in the drink you won't lament as much as if one of your 'goodens' does. My 2 cents anyway. If I had to worry about cleaning something over 10 lbs then I would lean to a old 121, just because most of the little hair I got left is turning gray and old stuff is starting to take on more appeal...300$s
 
When I fished I would use a 102 to clean them, I would catch catfish, small, and large mouth bass, and crappies. When I got married I had a 105 in a kitchen drawer, my wife looked at me like I was nuts, now I can't get it away from her!!!!
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
Mostly Pan Fish, Crappie, Breem (Bluegill to you Yankees :D ), and such, with the occasional Bass or Catfish.

I guess the easiest way would be just clean one with a 110 as see!
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yeah, try the 110 a few times. It will do the job on what you are fishing for. but a fixed blade specific for those might be a tad better. At least easier to clean afterwards.

I have been fondeling a 118, 105, and a 121 since you started this thread and in all my days of fishing for crappie (white perch or specks in some places) and bass, the 105 would be my choice.

The 121 for those, is just a tad much, and the 118 is a tad too little.

And the 105 I was playing with, just seems to have a slight thicker spine for some reason. I didn't measure it, but it looks a little thicker.

When I am seriously doing some bass or crappie fishing, an electric fillet knife is the only thing to use. Makes quick work of them,,,,but thats a whole nother thread.
 
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Well Bear Claw , I am sorry for not responding sooner.But I have been having Photobucket issues................:mad:

I have been using a 110 for the fish cleaning becouse I like to
eat the skin and the tail.............:D

But if I were to fillet them for the wife I would use the Buck 123 I got
from a Buck Brother who Hunts Four food...........;)

So for me It is a how I am going to do it .Rather than what Buck
do I want to use.:)

I also have a 121 that The Pack Rat likes to crow about.But I like it more for
cleaning deer than Fish.But that's just me...........:eek:

Hawkeye
 
Hawkeye5 said:
I have been using a 110 for the fish cleaning becouse I like to eat the skin and the tail.............:D
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Were fishing from the same boat, if it's just for me, I don't fillet, but if the females of the clan want some, their dainty hands can't touch a fish rib!

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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