Do you use your every day traditional for fishing?

[lightskyam]

Would it be better to just buy a separate knife for fishing alone or do you use your every day knife for fishing also?

 

[Cheeseiest1]

I have an old imperial fish knife that I use when I'm fishing, sorry I don't have any pics of it at the moment but if you look around in old threads you'll easily find some. It's a right handy tool for fishing, has everything you need- A long thin blade that works well for cleaning/filleting/cutting line, a scaler, a hook remover, a bottle opener, and a handy hole for reshaping hooks.

There have been times I didn't have it stashed in my tackle box for some reason or another and just used whatever I had in my pocket, usually my everyday carry knives (like a case peanut) wouldn't work so well for filleting, but could definitely handle all your other knife needs. You can always prep the fish when you get it home. I just like using the fish knife because my grandpa always uses one, and they are a handy purpose-built tool. Cheers!

 

[akadave2]

I use a tradtional when fishing for cutting chores like line and opening split shot etc. but I dont clean fish with a traditional unless you consider a fillet knife a traditional. I dont like to gunk up my traditionals unduly so they stay out of the wet work.

 

[Stich2442]

I use my chestnut bone cv peanut that I carry everyday, for fishing, after I started to use it I honestly felt stupid using anything else, how much knife do you need to trim line. I can open the pen blade one handed, and the clip blade is perfect for gutting crappies which are the only freshwater fish I keep to eat these days. After gutting quick rinse in the lake, when I get home a good washing in hot water and dish soap a little isopropyl alcohol in the pivot then some mineral oil and I'm good to go, I do keep a old Hammerbrand fishing knife in my fishing bag but it has not come out since I started using the peanut last spring.

Pete

 

[PaulBosley]

I have an old imperial fish knife I used to use a lot and I have a floating fish knife I keep in the tackle box but I don't use either much anymore. Whatever I have in my pocket usually gets used. Or I have a McAhron neck knife that is sown into my jacket if its still chilly out I tend to grab it as its easier to access that a folder in the pocket.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

My old Mora, yep, although it's on my fathers boat. It's got wood handles and a guard. Probably a nice layer of rust on it by now.

 

[Art_Vandeley]

I can open the pen blade one handed

How?

I`m looking at my Peanut right now, and can`t figure it out.

 

[notthatsharp]

I haven't yet, but I see no reason why I wouldn't take my douk douk along for the next fishing trip. as mentioned above, you just need to clean it out afterwards and besides, you don't need too much of a knife for gutting a fish (not the ones I tend to get anyway)

 

[lightskyam]

How?

I`m looking at my Peanut right now, and can`t figure it out.

i was wondering the same thing. don't think i would try it anyway being that i cut myself the first few times i opened both blades.

 

[Stich2442]

How?

I`m looking at my Peanut right now, and can`t figure it out.

Here is a step by step

1st remove from pocket

2nd anchor pen blade with thumbnail

3rd anchor handle on pant leg and pull pen blade until 1/2 stop engages

4th push blade on pant leg to finish opening

Disclaimer: not responsible for any cut digits, vasectomies, circumcision or any other loss of blood

Pete

 

[jackknife]

Disclaimer: not responsible for any cut digits, vasectomies, circumcision or any other loss of blood

Pete

"You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din!"

And that's putting it mildly.

Carl.

 

[jackknife]

As for using my edc pocket knfe for fishing, I have in the past when I was in a nostalgic mood, and may do so again before I'm done. It don't hurt, just have to be sure to do a good clean up when you get home. An old toothbrush, some Dawn dish soap, running warm water, and it's good to go. A drop or two of good old 3-In-1 or Hoppes gun oil in the joint just to be sure. And as Pete can tell you, a peanut is like haivng a zipper on that fish belly.

Carl.

 

[Stich2442]

Carl, if I was tuna fishing I would take a sawzall, but for crappies the peanut is perfect like a surgeons scalpel, get the tip in about 1/4" and put a slight angle and presto, I take the scales off by holding the clip 90 degrees to the fish a scrape off. I use to bring a fixed blade fishing but the peanut is all I needed fishing last spring/summer/fall. I throw the bass, yellow perch, pumpkin seeds, and pickerel back, and keep maybe 3 out of every 100 crappies I catch. All this talk of fishing I think I'll pick up my license this week.

Pete

 

[PaulBosley]

Thanks stich i was sitting here thinking about how to explain with only words the Picts made it easy. My granddad showed me this years ago till now I've never seen anyone else do it. I can pull it off but my granddad could do it like it was nothing. He could get his out, open it, make a cut ,close it and have the nut back in his pocket quicker than I could even get mine out of my pocket.

 

[Stich2442]

No problem Paul, I was trying to figure out how to explain it, decided on having my wife take some pictures, it's second nature to me, like your granddad it's a fluid motion and I don't give it much thought when doing it, it might be the reason I use the pen blade the most for utility and mundane task.

Pete

 

[Django.cj]

A slipjoint can make a fine fish knife, but much like a hunting knife, a fixed blade is MUCH easier to clean. I just picked up a Buck 118 to be my new fishing knife...that long thin curved blade looked just perfect for filleting.

My fishin' bag has two knives...a Huntsman (for scissors, small cutting jobs, opening beer) and the Buck. An international duo for tackling all fishing duties.

 

[kc custom]

If I plan to go deer hunting, fishing or whatever I may take a knife I feel is more suited
to what I'm doing. My favorite deer knife happens to have a 5" blade. I thought an "every-day-knife"
meant just that. Whatever you run into in the course of a day, mail, rope, pipes, fish, wood, game,
car repair and on an on. Beauty of slipjoints is they are always there and will handle 99.9% of all of it.
Ken.

 

[Turk88]

My everyday traditionals regularly get the nod for fishing duties. I rarely filet fish that I catch, usually just gut them if I keep any at all and almost any knife can handle that. Stainless can be used if you're nervous about rust but it's not essential. Peanuts, stockmen, trappers, lockbacks, sure they'll work if sharp.

 

[SonnyJim]

Here is a step by step


Disclaimer: not responsible for any cut digits, vasectomies, circumcision or any other loss of blood

Pete

Lol! I just had to try this, and my yeller jumped out of my hand like, well, a fish! The spring on my peanut's pen is waaaay to stiff for these kinds of shenannigans

~Jim

 

[WA Martin]

I may not but my fishing partner does. Same as Carl does on the clean up. He only lives about 5 miles from the lake if that...