I am going to buy my first Aqua Salt and want to get your input from personal experience on if I should get the plain or serrated edge based on my needs. I will use it on the boat cut plugging herring/other bait. It will see lots of fish cleaning. One problem I've had with fillet knives is getting through the skin while carking salmon and tuna. I would not be filleting with it, as I have a wide selection of flexible blades. I have never needed to cut rope unless I was in an emergency. It may see regular kitchen duty if I like it enough.
Thanks for your input,
Doc
Help me choose an Aqua Salt
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yablanowitz
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I don't have any personal experience with the Aqua Salt, but I do have a bit of experience with plain and serrated edges. For cleaning fish, especially for bait (i.e. not scaling them first) I'd go with serrated. All those pointy teeth will dig in to get through the skin rather than sliding across the scales.
I don't believe in safe queens, only in pre-need replacements.
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drstrangelove
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as someone who cuts a fair bit of herring, i'd say that PE would be better suited to the task. however, for cutting through "other bait" (thick-skinned sole, for example), SE may be preferable.drstrangelove wrote:I am going to buy my first Aqua Salt and want to get your input from personal experience on if I should get the plain or serrated edge based on my needs. I will use it on the boat cut plugging herring/other bait. It will see lots of fish cleaning. One problem I've had with fillet knives is getting through the skin while carking salmon and tuna. I would not be filleting with it, as I have a wide selection of flexible blades. I have never needed to cut rope unless I was in an emergency. It may see regular kitchen duty if I like it enough.
Thanks for your input,
Doc
i'd say... get both. :p
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drstrangelove
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A little feedback is in order...
I got both yellow Aquas and just finished carking 12 tuna. The handles retain like sandpaper! Love the Volcano. The serrated blade made very quick work of the skin cuts and quartering. The plain blade is perfectly shaped to remove dark meat and sectioning the loin for brining.
I will try to post a pic of the result... smoked albacore! Thanks for a couple great blades Sal!
I got both yellow Aquas and just finished carking 12 tuna. The handles retain like sandpaper! Love the Volcano. The serrated blade made very quick work of the skin cuts and quartering. The plain blade is perfectly shaped to remove dark meat and sectioning the loin for brining.
I will try to post a pic of the result... smoked albacore! Thanks for a couple great blades Sal!
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Clawhammer
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Well Doc...I feel for ya!
Lately, I've been into fishing out of a Kayak. And for a clumsly person like me, the last thing I need flying about on the yak is a sharp exposed blade, particularly when 'the action' starts!
I'm always on the lookout for a decent folding fillet knife. For me, the 'Salts' just ain't big enough. The closest I've come is this little number.
Now I know this is a Spyderco forum, and have read Sal's "Shiny footprint" mantra. But that still alows room for a balanced review.
Whilst these knives are inexpensive, flexible and razor sharp, the stainless blade & pins will rust if you look at them sideways, have lockbacks that would give Arnold Schwarzenegger a workout, the hande's are often deadly slippery with even a sniff of blood and guts or squid ink and because of the length of the flexible blade, rarely close into their slot unassisted.
Spyderco may be interested in this end of the market.
Lately, I've been into fishing out of a Kayak. And for a clumsly person like me, the last thing I need flying about on the yak is a sharp exposed blade, particularly when 'the action' starts!
I'm always on the lookout for a decent folding fillet knife. For me, the 'Salts' just ain't big enough. The closest I've come is this little number.
Now I know this is a Spyderco forum, and have read Sal's "Shiny footprint" mantra. But that still alows room for a balanced review.
Whilst these knives are inexpensive, flexible and razor sharp, the stainless blade & pins will rust if you look at them sideways, have lockbacks that would give Arnold Schwarzenegger a workout, the hande's are often deadly slippery with even a sniff of blood and guts or squid ink and because of the length of the flexible blade, rarely close into their slot unassisted.
Spyderco may be interested in this end of the market.