Fishermen: Can you recommend premium quality knife set

I purchased 2 Buck filleting knives about 4 years ago. Still have em and they are still cutting ever so sharply. Only about $50.00 each. A good steel and a lot of care and these knives will out last you. They have cleaned hundreds of barra and golden snapper. I have about a dozen other different knives , all good quality. These are the best filleting knives I have used as not only a reasonable price but good steel. Good handles as well.
Depending on your fish species it pays to have 2 different lengths of blade.
Why not buy the knife, a good steel and maybe a diamond stone for about $150.. and it would make a great gift for any angler.
cheers and good hunting

hi, Victorinox knives are good qaulity and reasonably priced, a lot of butchers use them, MBL in Adelaide , their web site has filleting knives at good prices, you need to keep it sharp tho so a good stone and steel is needed as well, store sharp knives in protective sheath/ pouch DON"T store in draw with other knives.

This web site is a good read on knife sharpening , scroll down

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?/topic/26036-knife-maintenance-and-sharpenin...
Barry
ex Butcher /Meat inspector.

I think you might have to seperate out your filleting knives from actual fishing knife. For cutting up bait and the like most fishers use a cheap knife that is easy to get an edge on. They get too much bad treatment and are easy to lose, so don't warrant a premium knife. However, knives for filleting and slicing are a different story. You can go Japanese... they have traditional fish knives that are excellent and up in the price range you are talking about. A premium sashimi knife will set you back a bit. There is even different knives for flat fish. There is all the various chef gear, which is also right up there.... Wusthof comes to mind. We have a Wusthof kitchen set that cost about $500.... good knives. Ideally you need a specialist filleting knife, and one or two slicing knives (depending on what you do with your fish).

If you wanted my vote I would love a few good Japanese knives in a traditional roll. They don't look pretty though.

I love my Warthers'. Only I get to touch it!

Warthers Filleting Knives

Cheers.

All the professional barra netters up here use Dexter Russell.

I sepnt a week with one of them once, and watching him work his knives and filleting fish was amazing. And im talking fish that goes to the best restaraunts in Oz.

He swore by them, and had been using the same knives for over 10 years. In a week he generally filled 200 boxes of 15kg fillets. Lots of use, and hardly require any attention.

I use them too now.

Hey fishing Gurus! Thanks heaps to you all for responding.

Thanks Big Fish for recommending different sizes for filleting different fish. I had not considered that.

Also, thanks Bill BD for reminding me that fishing is more than just the final act of presentation, but that chopping up bait is also part of the ritual.

I understand that the poly handles are non porous and make sense for fish, but gee, those speciality timber handles are more the 'keep treasured forever' type of thing I was after.

My husband received a beautiful set of knives 20 years ago as a gift for being 'best man' at a friend's wedding. We have both loved this set dearly (I get to use it for the occasional boning and filleting in the kitchen...when I'm lucky). It is a Kershaw Blade Trader set, couldn't believe it when I found the exact set still for sale today, tho at a much lesser price than I would have valued this set at. My husband's set contains a fillet knife, boning knife and saw blade, and 20 years on it is still the most sharpest and deadliest knives we have (even comparing to my Wusthofs). My husband sliced the end of his finger off once - gosh it bled!!

Anyway, based on all your very helpful comments, I am now considering a fishing set that consists of 2 fillet knives, a boner and a "just chop up the bait" kind of knife? Would that make a very nice gift for my nephew? Is it worth getting them engraved, or is that overkill for a bloke?