battery powered electric filet knives

[johnr]

I never carry a pencil in my front pocket for fear of puncturing my scrotum

 

[Captain Ahab]

DeWalt needs to come out with a 20 volt knife that takes their drill packs. I'd gladly offer up 200 bones for one of excellent quality.

 

[SDMF]

DeWalt needs to come out with a 20 volt knife that takes their drill packs. I'd gladly offer up 200 bones for one of excellent quality.

^ Way too heavy.

The Rapala Lithium w/Berkely skinny blades is my go-to. Rapala makes a 9" skinny blade I haven't tried but I know Enslow is sweet on those blades in the LI Rapala. If I have many pike to fillet, it's back to the Rapala HD corded.

 

[guywhofishes]

I like my sharks.

 

[SDMF]

I like my sharks.

Never tried the shark, anything with more flex than the standard issue blades is gooder.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab
DeWalt needs to come out with a 20 volt knife that takes their drill packs. I'd gladly offer up 200 bones for one of excellent quality.



^ Way too heavy.

The Rapala Lithium w/Berkely skinny blades is my go-to. Rapala makes a 9" skinny blade I haven't tried but I know Enslow is sweet on those blades in the LI Rapala. If I have many pike to fillet, it's back to the Rapala HD corded.



If it was balanced right, the weight wouldn't bother me much.

 

[Enslow]

The rapala 9 inch blades trump the berkely blades for crappies, gills, walleyes, pike and perch. IMO the 9 inch rap blades are the best i have used.

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My lithium ion rap will go through 20 nice walleyes plus on a charge. I actually have never had it die assuming it had full charge to begin with.

 

[deleted member]

On the variable speed comment... aren't they all variable?

 

[raider]

went through 3 of the li raps in 2 years... maybe just me, but i'm back in a mr t with a snazzy white 9' lamp extension cord...

 

[dukgnfsn]

I bought a American Angler corded and I carry a small inverter and extension cord in truck and clean on end-gate a lot and like it that way.
Last I used a battery rapalla of a friend it wouldn't even do 10 fish and he needed to change battery and wasn't that old so staying with the 110V. Just how I roll at this time. dukgnfsn

 

[Petras]

I've cleaned 32 eyes with mine since the last time I charged it. This is over four outings spread out over 2 weeks... I love this knife. I'd give it a 9 out of 10. Only reason it's not a 10 is because I don't like the trigger lock on it. Every time you let off the trigger you have to depress the trigger lock before you can engage the trigger... this sucks for me because the trigger lock is friggen tiny and I have big hands so I usually just run the k I feel non stop until I'm done cleaning fish.

 

[WLYHNTR]

The lithium Rapala is pretty good, had mine for several years and the battery life is still excellent.

 

[huffranger]

Another vote for the Lithium Rapala. Love mine !

 

[shadow]

I clean lots of fish at our camp, the electric is used for Pike as cutting bones wears out blades. I use electric as the battery ones do not have enough juice to continually clean, and yes the cord is a pain, but better then a slow knife.
What I do is cut meat off with electric, then de-bone with regular fillet knife. I had a Storm that died after 5 years and maybe 2000 fish cleaned, Pike and Walleye. I only wish the blades were interchangeable from different makers, but such is life.
I now have a Berkely as I could not find another Storm that was about $20, Berkely was $40, hope it lasts, time will tell. Good Luck

 

[remm]

Those cordless ones must be hit or miss. I've had both Berkley and Rapala lithiums and both have been pretty shit, been lucky to get through 4-5 18" walleyes on one full charge with either of them. Said hell with them and still fall back on the trusty corded american angler that has cleaned a ton of fish and seems bulletproof. Got a few of the mister twisters too but they seldom get used, the older ones seem to heat up quite a bit after cleaning a few fish. My boy won a couple of the salt water mister twisters which seem to rip shit, but the blades are pretty dam aggressive so you gotta be careful.

Maybe have to try out one more lithium one just for the hell of it, but 99% of my cleaning is done in the garage or at the cleaning station with power readily available so hard to pry the american angler away from me.

 

[dust in the wind]

I never carry a pencil in my front pocket for fear of puncturing my scrotum

 

[cornman53]

I have the Lithium-ion Rapala and can easily do 15-20 fish at one time. It does start to get hot but it keeps right along cutting. The blade is very stiff and I find dulls easily. I am going to have to try the shark blades mentioned above.

 

[Jigaman]

2 mister twisters and a 6' ext cord for this guy. Bought the second one because it was on sale for like $14. This one stays in the house to cut fresh bread out of the bread maker. The other stays in my gear bag. love those knives!

 

[martinslanding]

per an experiment this weekend it appeared the berkley blades fit in the rapala ion without modification...