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What we really need is a siren with yellow or green G10 and Magnacut..! ... Almost perfect, but make it FRN instead of G10... ;) (and add an SE option!) FRN for a Siren XL Slim model, and G10 for new and improved magnacut Siren. I’m not a big fan of serrations, personally, but if Spyderco made both...

Used mine for the first time today. Didn’t really use it much on the water but cleaned some decent fish with it when I got in. Man, what a great little design this is! Felt very capable as a small fillet. Serrations are completely out of the way when filleting (at least the way I work) but came in ...

Skip the Ikuchi. The knife design (handle texture, lack of guard, opening mechanism) don’t lend it itself to these type of tasks. If you’re against the Catcherman (seriously the perfect folding fillet knife), then you might be able to find a Siren. I used my Siren to fillet anything from large cod a...

What we really need is a siren with yellow or green G10 and Magnacut..! I like a bit of a belly on my fishing knives, personally. Which is why I think that the knives you’ve helped design are by far the best all around for my fishing needs, and why the Chief doesn’t interest me much. Maybe a Siren X...

Soyderco needs to make a knife with a cork handle.
Mora and White River Knives make cork handled knives, and they float..!

Spyderco’s locks rock.
In a good way.

I’d take a Stretch XL in Magnacut.
Hopefully they can make it as a “premium salt” version with G10 and keep the H2 FRN version as a budget model.

I used a Siren and a Waterway pretty successfully in the past.
Thought a proper carving knife from Victorinox (for example) is a much better tool for the job.

Well, feels ofd to post a reply, following one from Phil Wilson himself. I’ll just confirm what Phil said - you can do it with a shorter blade, alas with less efficiency and more time. A thinner longer blade will aid in making filleting an easier task, and a well designed - designated fillet knife w...

I’m an ambi, and use my knives with both hands, depending on the task. You can use your index finger (left hand) to close the knife easily. Either dropping the blade ricasso on the nail, or slowly rolling the blade closed with your thumb after depressing the lockbar with the index finger. My only g...

Not to hijack the thread, but really wish Lance would weigh in on topics like this. I miss his perspective on processing fish and game, and on all things corrosion. Besides designing the Waterway and Siren, he commissioned some absolutely sick fillet knives by another forum member, possibly Xplorer...

I’m an ambi, and use my knives with both hands, depending on the task. You can use your index finger (left hand) to close the knife easily. Either dropping the blade ricasso on the nail, or slowly rolling the blade closed with your thumb after depressing the lockbar with the index finger. My only gr...

All I know is that the black coating on my Pacific Salt has been chipping off, slowly but surely.
Also, it appears that these are more prone to backing out, unless very heavily threadlocked.

That’s my experience, at least.

Wish i had known about this thread before the last time i cleaned my knife, but heres my Lc200N pacific salt. One of my jobs is that I do fly fishing charters on the ocean and this was my knife i carried every single charter all year. Got sprayed with salt everyday, went underwater a lot, and aside...

Wish i had known about this thread before the last time i cleaned my knife, but heres my Lc200N pacific salt. One of my jobs is that I do fly fishing charters on the ocean and this was my knife i carried every single charter all year. Got sprayed with salt everyday, went underwater a lot, and aside...

I beat the **** out of my Pacific 2 LC200N, and have had zero issues with damaging the handle scales. Not only these are linerless, but also heavily skeletonized. Sure, the scales flex and some people may think that it feels flimsier than a comparable knife with metal liners or G10 scales, but in te...

The ultimate “hack” is to use a DMt rod and make an actually sharpened choil.
I usually sharpen it at a steeper angle (50-60 degrees inclusive), and it works well as a wire stripper, or simply doesn’t snag as much as a choil that’s unsharpened.

Finished filleting 2 nice Coho Salmons with my Siren in LC200N

On any given week, I’ll spend about 4-5 days fishing. I’m in a kayak or a boat in the ocean at least 2-3 out of those days. I use the Spyderco Siren and Waterway nearly exclusively. If you have good filleting technique, you’ll do just fine with these two knives. I have many mainstream fillet knives,...

A Waterway and Siren in Magnacut is what I’m dreaming of.