I'd Love Your Suggestions!

J. Doyle said:
I love that you never have to adjust your hand position when opening closing, especially in precarious spots in/over water with hands full of other things (rods/line/net etc.) .
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So true, and yet I never take a knife out over water that’s not tethered to me. I could have the thing duct-tapped to my hand and manage to put it in the drink.
 
As far as a fishing knife is concerned I usually carry a small neck knife for cutting line. Im usually in a boat or a kayak and they give me great access. My preferred model is an Emerson La Griffe. The ring lets me keep it on my finger while I tie knots and then its ready when I need to remove the tag end of the line.

Ive considered a spyderco waterway or siren for a folder or large fixed blade.

It seems to me that you want more a of a general purpose heavy duty folder for anything that may pop up. Since you say you catch and release a fillet knife seem pointless
 
EngrSorenson said:
So true, and yet I never take a knife out over water that’s not tethered to me. I could have the thing duct-tapped to my hand and manage to put it in the drink.
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Sound advice. I've lost two over water....one standing in a river and one ice fishing. Should have been smarter and had them tethered.
 
Phantomshtter said:
So I'm in the market to try to find the perfect fishing knife for myself. I probably fish 100+ days out of the year, it's a passion and a requirement for me today. There's no telling where I'll find myself fishing, no one great followed the rules and didn't explore uncharted territory. That said, I've found a core set of attributes I'd like in my perfect fishing knife. #1) relatively stainless. #2) self defense worthy. #3) Aggressive partial serrations or sawback. #4) Good chopping capability/toughness. #5) 5" minimum blade length. #6) Folder would be great!😆 Seriously.😐

Lemme know what you think! I'm not at all familiar with a lot of knives is why I'm asking. I've kinda just been bitten by the knife bug really. Thanks for any suggestions, ideas, help etc. 👍🏻
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Yea, some of those things don't go together. Folding, chopping, 5" blade length? That's a tall order. Sounds to me like you need multiple tools. I'd start with a folder from the Spyderco Salt line: https://www.knifecenter.com/series/spyderco-knives/spyderco-salt

Lots of different flavors. The Pacific Salt is what I carry everyday:
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Next, look at an inexpensive stainless belt knife for those light chopping or SD tasks. Something from the classic buck line, or the gerber strong arm, or maybe a mora.

And of course, you need a good multitool with a small saw for those little branches you want to cleanly cut out of the way. Plus all the other tools a good MT has. Think Leatherman Wave.
 
Bro I'm going to be honest with you... I've got a whole lotta knives of all different shapes, sizes, weights, locks, folders, and fixed, and I found this combo right here to be the absolute best fishing setup for me. I used to fish A LOT. Atleast 3 days out of the week, maybe 4. I'd fish for trout, salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, bass, panfish, catfish, shad, rock fish, lingcod, crabs, clams... I guess that's about it. But yea I highly recommend this setup. It's inexpensive enough to where if you loose it you won't be TOO completely heart broken. I attach the leatherman to my right most belt loop and the knife on my left most because I use the multitool more often. This setup works great for wading in the water too, because even if the tools are completely submerged, they still won't take off down the river. These tools stay in my fishing backpack and get very little maintenance. I just dry them off best I can on my shirt before storing back in the backpack and only ever get any spots of rust if it sits for a while. I keep a pocket sharpener in my backpack too in case the knife starts getting too dull. The serrations on top of the Rapala work awesome for cutting through the top of the fishes head and through the spine too, even on bigger fish like salmon and sturgeon.

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I'm also a dual sport rider as well (2006 KLR 650). Sounds like you have yourself an awesome hobby! Yea I like to carry the two I posted above, and then if I'm riding also I'd carry my old folding saw, and a larger fixed blade for your chopping and what not. My main outdoors knife used to be an ESEE 4 during this period of my life. Now days, with my current knife selection, it'd probably be an old Carbon V Cold Steel SRK.
 
Swiss Army Knife with a saw, Leatherman Micra with scissors, and a smaller machete, 12-14 inches. Oh, and a pair of work gloves, for lopping handfuls of vegetation at a time with less worry about thorns or splinters....
 
Riz! said:
If you want a big aggressive folder then a Cold Steel Talwar XL with the fully serrated blade will work

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See, now somebody hears me! That's a foliage chopper right there. Bigfoot himself would turn tail and run... AND it's a folder. I came across those last night and couldn't decide what would make the best best chopper of the bunch. The tanto? Espada? 🤷 I don't know.
 
Riz! said:
As far as a fishing knife is concerned I usually carry a small neck knife for cutting line. Im usually in a boat or a kayak and they give me great access. My preferred model is an Emerson La Griffe. The ring lets me keep it on my finger while I tie knots and then its ready when I need to remove the tag end of the line.

Ive considered a spyderco waterway or siren for a folder or large fixed blade.

It seems to me that you want more a of a general purpose heavy duty folder for anything that may pop up. Since you say you catch and release a fillet knife seem pointless
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Exactly, you heard right. I kayak and bank fish. I'll go where nobody else does when it comes to the banks, so hacking at limbs treking or clearing casting room is a common need I've found.
 
Somebody posted a pretty sweet looking folding machete in D2 a day or two ago in the General forum here. I don't have too much use for one, but it would be pretty sweet for this specific use.
 
I carry a small folding saw with me and routinely clean up branches that were broken or hacked off by previous people.

Edit: It is an OPINEL brand saw its like a large folding knife.
 
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