Question on Traditional Fish Knives

[Trout Hound]

Howdy Y'all,
I have been an avid fisherman for most of my life, but I have never cleaned a fish with a folding knife. I've always used fixed blade fillet knives. Lately, I've been intrigued by traditional folding fish knives. I'm wondering, though, if using the scaler ever results in blade play. I've scaled a lot of fish, and it just seems like a lot of lateral pressure to put on a folder joint. I welcome any experience you can share. Thanks!


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[brownshoe]

My father's generation used toothpick knives with or w/o scalers as their primary fishing knife. They used the cheap ones (e.g. Imperial, Colonial, etc.). We used the scaler on my Dad's for years w/o any play.

 

[Rookie82]

I've handled quite a few of them over the years that were 50+ years old, and I don't recall any with wobbly blades. However, there's a good chance that they were never used for scaling either. Everyone I know around here prefers fixed blade knives for filleting or scaling.

 

[Guitarist7.62]

Use a bottle cap on a stick. Learned that from This forum actually, if you take a small stick, and use a little hot glue to attach a bottle cap on it it works pretty well as a scaler. I don't like to use folding knives for fish, but I don't see why it would hurt anything.