I have a Utica & a Case both USA made. I wouldn't part with either of them.

CASE , Love carbon steel, can get it sharp enough to shave your face with it, and easier to get sharp.
Stainless is a lot harder to work with getting as good edge.

Utica top
Case bottom
The Utica are carbon steel as well.

Didn't know they made a fillet knife, used one for skinning beaver, but never knew they made other knives.
Another good carbon steel knife!

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Thank you for the information on Dexters, learn something everyday on this site.

Dexter Russel. Good knives. I find myself using them often, all sorts of fish and other game too. The short stout blade is great for boning/breaking down deer , and the longer thinner blades for filleting fish.

Rada, if you can find one!

what Ohio wolverine, said is spot on

Good thread, I have a bit of a fillet knife fetish. I love my gerber folder for trips, I mainly use it on turkey and pheasant trips. Also have Gerber folder. Many Rapalas I've had for years
but as a lot have said Dexter Russell is the best. Between cabin and home I probably have 20.

henkels fillet knives are very nice

When I was a lot younger all we did was cut the fins off, scaled then then gutted them. Still do on a lot of smaller fish. Bought a Rapala when I was 20 something and thats all I have used since if I want to fillet some bigger fish. I have 3 different sizes. I do use an electric knife to cut threw the rib bones but that's all. Cutting the rib bones out and skinning them I use the Rapala's. I use a tumbler for scaling 10 fish or more. Makes that part easy and you don't get scales all over the place.

Marttiini Knives Fillet Knife are as good as they get. Finnish Filet Knife original.

The white handled Dexters are the standard for seafood shops and commercial cutters...if there was any better they would be using them.

That said, pretty much anything will work "good enough"...if it's sharp

White handle Dexter. They make flexy ones and stiff ones.

Hold an edge decent and are quick to touch up.

Plus they don't cost and arm and a leg.

I use a Cutco with adjustable blade length. I use it more on trimming up deer than fish. I bought it used from a pawn shop for $20. It has some excavation company name etched in it so I’m assuming it was a Christmas present or similar. I have had it for 3 years and have yet to sharpen it.

Again, it doesn’t get used a lot, but maybe a couple 3-4 deer a year.

I passed the info to my daughters since my birthday is coming up. They can buy something nice for the old man. lol
Thanks for all the info - greatly appreciated!

i run all the sizes of rapala and love them keep great edge and cheap when it comes to knives. i have a bubba 7 1/2 and i like adc am not a huge fan of the handle. bubba electric i like better than any other electric ive used and maybe because its battery powered not a corded one. but my rapala knives i have never felt i needed something more. and i fillet hundreds of fish a year. a nice steel goes a long way. i also use the sharpener adc uses to take any knicks out the blade then a steel to hone it more. 30 sec and its razor sharp again.

i have used some high dollar fillet knives and dont get me wrong they are real nice i just cant see spending couple hundred bucks on one. i have high dollar knives for butchering animals and they are great and i still end up using a cheaper dexter or shrade knife for 90% of butchering.

function then price for me if i couldnt get the function part without paying a higher price id pay more for sure.

Those Cutco ones are good!

I have 2 I got as gifts years ago and they're still going strong. I love that the blades are removable and adjustable lengths.