Salt knives and fish pics
- Surfingringo
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Salt knives and fish pics
Love those salts. I have been using the Tasman WAY more than I ever thought I would. It has turned out to be a great gutting and cleaning knife! Had a box full of twenty dollar lures today and nothing was biting. Finally tied on a $3 spoon and got these guys and a couple more. Go figure. :rolleyes:
Lance, its because of you, my H1 addiction continues to expand. Great photo, I'm jealous. Our spring salmon season is just now starting, hope to post some new stuff this year as well. I now own a nice line-up of H1 salts, but still dont have a Tasman. That Tasman, for the price, is a no brainer IMHO. Great little knife to say the least. I own a Spyderhawk, same thing, love it...........
Cheers, Dude!
Cheers, Dude!
Fish on!
- Surfingringo
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Yup, I find the tasman to be a superb design for cleaning whole fish. My girlfriend and I love to eat those small snapper whole and we use the mackerel heads in soup, so I rarely throw the heads away. So when I clean I open the belly all the way to the gills and have to cut through the breast bone. I also remove the gills. I find both of these jobs much easier and safer with the hawkbill, especially the gill removal...just "hook and pull". Also, since getting the tasman, I have started gutting and cleaning on the kayak a lot. I didn't before because there's just not much room, but the tasman is so precise and efficient it makes it way easier to do some of the dirty work while still on the water!
Overall, I think the tasman makes an awesome companion knife to a larger folder, fishing or not. I usually have the pacific salt or military IWB and the tasman clipped to a cord around my neck.
Overall, I think the tasman makes an awesome companion knife to a larger folder, fishing or not. I usually have the pacific salt or military IWB and the tasman clipped to a cord around my neck.
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Very nice picture, hopefully I can post a few similar pictures with my Pacific and some freshwater beasts this summer! Most likely canidates: Brown Trout, Bluegill, Sheepshead, Largemouth Bass. I'm so jealous you can fish year-round man, I'd KILL to be on some open water.
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Military Black G-10 DLC, Byrd Meadowlark 2 G-10, Lil Matriarch, Pacific Salt SE yellow, Endura 4 ffg brown, Native FRN PE, Dragonfly 2 Orange, Ulize, Sharpmaker and UF rods. Also, Cold Steel Voyager XL Clip PE, Kershaw Volt II (on loan), many fixed blades, and a KP strop block.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Military Black G-10 DLC, Byrd Meadowlark 2 G-10, Lil Matriarch, Pacific Salt SE yellow, Endura 4 ffg brown, Native FRN PE, Dragonfly 2 Orange, Ulize, Sharpmaker and UF rods. Also, Cold Steel Voyager XL Clip PE, Kershaw Volt II (on loan), many fixed blades, and a KP strop block.
- Officer Gigglez
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You're missing out. Thing is awesomeNeverEnough wrote:...don't have a tasman...
Spyderco Knives (in order of obtainment):
-Tenacious, Combo edge
-Tasman Salt, PE
-Persistence Blue, PE
-Pacific Salt, Black, PE
-Delica 4, Emerson Grey
-DiAlex Junior
-Byrd SS Crossbill, PE
-Endura 4 Emerson Grey
-Byrd Meadowlark 2 FRN, PE
-Resilience
-Tenacious, Combo edge
-Tasman Salt, PE
-Persistence Blue, PE
-Pacific Salt, Black, PE
-Delica 4, Emerson Grey
-DiAlex Junior
-Byrd SS Crossbill, PE
-Endura 4 Emerson Grey
-Byrd Meadowlark 2 FRN, PE
-Resilience
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...what sort of cutting tasks do you do with it Officer Gigglez?do you e.d.c it?more info would be appreciated-been wanting one for ages but always get other models first-waiting on the hungarian folder at the moment.do you prefer serrated?i have pacific and atlantic both with teeth...Officer Gigglez wrote:You're missing out. Thing is awesome
I would to like to know this as well. I am set on getting a Salt serrated blade but can't figure out which one to get between the Salt, Pacific and now the Tasman.NeverEnough wrote:...what sort of cutting tasks do you do with it Officer Gigglez?do you e.d.c it?more info would be appreciated-been wanting one for ages but always get other models first-waiting on the hungarian folder at the moment.do you prefer serrated?i have pacific and atlantic both with teeth...
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I will chime in with my 2¢ until O.G. shows up. I looked at the tasman (and other hawkbills) a thousand times and never really saw its value as an edc or utility knife. My opinion has changed dramatically since I got one a couple of months ago. I started carrying it fishing in my kayak along with my pacific salt where truthfully, it rarely gets used. But when I started playing around gutting and cleaning fish my entire opinion changed. So much so that now I almost always carry it along with my Millie, whether I'm fishing or not. And you know what? More often than not these days, it's the tasman that I reach for and not the Millie. Seriously. It's obviously the less versatile of the two, but ironically its more specific design performs better for the majority of what I do. It has limitations of course but it works so well at so many things you could almost say that it's been my primary knife and the military has been the backup! :eek: . I won't go too far with that thought yet though. We'll see how I feel once the new completely wears off of it.NeverEnough wrote:...what sort of cutting tasks do you do with it Officer Gigglez?do you e.d.c it?more info would be appreciated-been wanting one for ages but always get other models first-waiting on the hungarian folder at the moment.do you prefer serrated?i have pacific and atlantic both with teeth...
What is it good at. Pretty much anything that doesn't require putting the edge on a flat surface. Pull cuts are obviously where it excels. Opening boxes, packages, bags, (even fish) all respond very well to a hawkbill. I often place my index finger on the spine and the effect is as close to having an extremely functional human claw as I'm likely to get. Like I said earlier, I am using and liking this knife WAY more than I ever suspected! I am in the habit of carrying two folders. I used to carry a dragonfly along with my larger folder, but I'm now feeling it is way more useful to have a se hawkbill as a second blade instead of just a smaller traditional pe.