Lotta guys say a lektrik knife wastes too much meat and insist on a manual knife.
My problem is hanging onto the slippery little buggers.
I may pull the skin off, let them air dry, and try that.

Manual here. Electric you lose knife skills just sawing though bone. Manual you feel the ribs and learn how to slice around them.

I use both. Electric for walleye is way faster filleting them.

I'll use both, dependant on circumstances.

Both

When filleting 50 crappies in a row, I'll take the electric all day.

I have both but 9 times out of 10 i'll grab the knife knife. in fact I have not touched the electric one in about two years I think. Having said that, I use a Deba mostly.



Once I have the filets , I use a Yanagiba for further cleaning up ( thats the long skinny one of the two.

I hear you about slippery , my hands acre after cleaning a bunch of fish I keep thinking maybe a sturdy 2 tine fork for better holding

then I saw this https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/rapala-fillet-fork/0000000237027?bc=10417|10507|10510

for 6 bucks I am getting one next time I am in Fleet.

My video. I can clean 50 in 15 min. Some guys like to pick every little scrap off the bones, those guys can't catch enough fish. lol

I use both, depending on what I'm cleaning.

If I have several fish I always use the electric knife

Buy yourself a BUBBA cordless. It has a few sets of blades of different sizes.
Works well and the batteries last quiet a while.

I use both but I have been using electric more and more. Very fast and no, you do not waste any more meat unless you are doing something wrong.

About the only time I use a regular filet knife anymore is when electric is not available or I am fileting big fish such as lake trout or salmon.

I have a farm pond grossly overpopulated with 6" crappie. I'm thinning them out and decided to clean 32 the other day. Didn't end up with much. That's why I'm considering peeling the skin off and let them air dry awhile and stiffen up a bit, then filet them

you loose less if you don't skin

scale , you can scale fast also makes the fillettes hold better cooking also

Hand fillet for me. Tried electric and it works well. I just like filleting by hand. And yes I regularly do 50 lake Erie perch or more every morning. Crappie our limit is 25. And for my limit of 6 walleye I can have them fillet by the time it would take me to pull out the electric knife and insert the blades. I'm also a skinner not a scaler

Wife bought me a cordless Bubba and I’ve never looked at another fillet knife since.

Manuel

American Angler Electric for walleye & Dexter Russel non electric for salmon

The minute a fish is landed we cut the throat and bleed it in a bucket of water. After a few are caught we take those and put them in a cooler full of crushed ice, change water in the bucket ready for the next batch of fish. At the end of the day we clean the fish on a stainless counter that just fits the pickup tailgate. Have a electric outlet on the trucks tool box for the electric knife and a clean water tank made from a piece of plastic pipe. The water tank has a hose and is pressurized by the air compressor in the tool box. The fish are filleted, fillets put in a stainless bowl, washed with clean water and ice, bagged and put on ice for the trip home. When you get home you are done, no fish to clean or mess to deal with.

Manual, several 4 - 11 inches long