Electric Filet Knife
 

Guys, I am tired of buying those Academy special knives with the plastic gears and burning them up. What are some good durable electric knives for reds and specs?

Thanks

Black and Decker or Hamilton Beach.

That's probably the best bang for your buck, unless you want to get into the $100+ knives.

Hamilton Beach..... You won't find them in the sporting goods area.

I absolutely love this knife.

I've got a Hamilton Beach that I use for carving around the house, but I don't think they come with fillet knife blades. You'll need those if you ever use it on redfish. For trout, if you get a decent regular knife (RADA, Dexter, etc.), it will be easier to sharpen and you'll eventually find that you're just as fast with it. Most of the guides I know don't use electric since their just as fast with their blades.

Been using this knife for over 35 years!Attachment 76278

I need to get on ebay and find one from the old days... they weren't all plastic parts back then.

I use Hamilton Beach from SAMs or Wal Mart

Cheap and clean everything with them

I buy 5 at a time and when down to 2 left buy 5 more

X2 on Rapala. I only clean specs with it though.

This will last some...
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American Angler makes a good one, its a little more expensive than the walmart and academy knives, but mine has lasted a long time and cleaned a lot of fish, even used it on smaller offshore species like blackfin, cobia, and snapper.

If your buying your electric knives in the sporting goods section your getting robbed.

Use the Hamilton Beach knives out of the housewares section. It is about the only thing I will purchase form Wal-Mart since they funded the federal red snapper law suit with a 9 million dollar donation.

They do have the plastic gears and will wear out but they are a lot cheeper. Many purchase a pair of the MIster Twister blades to put in them to clean red fish because those blades are a lot more aggressive.

If you are catching a lot of reds do what I did years ago and has become popular. Purchase one of the small, one handed reciprocating saws and modify a Dexter Russell blade for it. There is actually a guy in Mississippi that is making the serrated blades for the saws now.

I have gone through several of these. Not a lot better than Academy. The
Rapala Pro has lasted better than most.

American Angler will out last 10 HB.