Salt Questions

[Guyon]

I have two or three Spydercos on the "To Buy" radar: UK Penknife, Mini-Manix, and Salt.

It occurred to me today that for my intended purpose--mainly to cut up fish for cut bait--a combo-edge might be the ticket. Front part for slicing through flesh, back serrations for sawing through bone. But as far as I can tell, Salts only come in plain or fully serrated.

Here are a couple of Salt questions:

1) Do any of you use a Salt for cut bait duties? And if so, is the serrated blade a better choice here?

2) How many different Salt configurations are there (models, colors, blades)?

 

[smcfalls13]

Never used them myself, but I believe there are 3 models (Salt 1, Atlantic Salt, Pacific Salt) all available in Yellow or Black FRN, and all available with PE or SE blades.

There is also a Tasman Salt due out eventually which will be a hawkbill. Same handle and blade variations.

Hope that helps, and if anyone knows of any I missed, or mistakes I made, please feel free to correct me.

 

[Ming65]

Can't help you on the serrations by I use a P Salt most of the summer for beach fishing - I'm not a filleter, so I don't know how it performs there, but otherwise it will cut through anything and has remarkably good edge holding.

 

[STR]

I have two of the Salt1 knives. One serratted and one plain edge. I like both but prefer to carry the plain edge mostly. It doesn't give me any trouble and touches up to a razor edge again with ease by just stropping it a few times on the back of a cardboard from the back of a standard legal pad.

As far as cutting up fish. Don't know what you mean by that. I guess you could but if you are talking about fillets I'd go with the Spyderco Catcherman. It is the best fillet/fishing knife I've had in years and years and years. Love that thing both for fish and in the kitchen.

 

[Guyon]

As far as cutting up fish. Don't know what you mean by that. I guess you could but if you are talking about fillets I'd go with the Spyderco Catcherman. It is the best fillet/fishing knife I've had in years and years and years. Love that thing both for fish and in the kitchen.

STR, I'm talking about cutting up fish to use as bait for other (usually bigger) fish. Pretty common practice when fishing for big catfish in freshwater or for a lot of saltwater species. Big redfish, for example, will often bite on cut-up pieces of pogie or mullet. So will big jacks at times.

As far as fillet knives go, I own quite a few. The Catcherman is good for small fillets, and I keep one in my freshwater tackle at all times. But I also own two Rapala/Martinis, a Gerber Gator, a Schrade Steelhead, and a Dexter Russell. So far, I'm impressed with the Dexter Russell the most, I think. If you go on a commercial boat, that's what you'll usually find in the deckhands' hands. Am thinking of trying a Victorinox/Forschner as well. Have read good things about those fillet knives.

May do what you've done and get one each--a PE and a serrated. The Salts are pretty affordable, from what I've seen.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I have two or three Spydercos on the "To Buy" radar: UK Penknife, Mini-Manix, and Salt.

It occurred to me today that for my intended purpose--mainly to cut up fish for cut bait--a combo-edge might be the ticket. Front part for slicing through flesh, back serrations for sawing through bone. But as far as I can tell, Salts only come in plain or fully serrated.

Here are a couple of Salt questions:

1) Do any of you use a Salt for cut bait duties? And if so, is the serrated blade a better choice here?

2) How many different Salt configurations are there (models, colors, blades)?

Get a Mora to cut bait. Save the Salt for cutting stuff that doesn't leave fish guts in your handle, like rope and other stuff on your boat etc. I use a Mora for fishing, and have gotten to use my new Pacific Salt yellow spyderedge while on the water.

 

[Daywalker]

Aloha guyon,

This past March, I brought my Pacific Salt PE with me to Oahu. I managed to three prong a HUGE manini (type of island fish here) and my brother in law used the Pacific to gut the fish. We also used the knife for other things and it held up very well!

I do have it on good authority that the SE is the way to go with Salts...STR is right though...the edge is fast to put back. I even resharpened on a smoothish round rock I found on the beach just to see if it could be done. It worked. :thumbup:

God bless

 

[STR]

Silent thunder makes a good point about using a Salt folder or any folder for that matter. My biggest gripe about my Catcherman is how it smells so bad for weeks after if I don't run it through the dishwasher. Even then it still retains a faint smell of fish on it for lengthy periods of time.