The restaurants in Orange Beach buy lots of the 142-9SC serrated knife because it saws through the big frozen chunks of "fresh fish" that was caught in some third world country or raised in a Chinese sewer system.

sounds about right. we went to doc's awhile back and the fish of the day was sway. some kind of vietmanese catfish raised under a hut in a rice paddy eating gook chit and scraps

Fake news, everyone knows there are no restaurants in Orange Beach!

They gave me a reason to look for another brand. I bought the saltwater blue and white one because they're supposed to be more of a heavy duty knife. On my 2nd mess of Stripers it gave up the ghost. It stripped out one of the plastic gears that push and pull the blades. These were not huge stripers. I don't keep them over about 10 lbs. Well, rarely anyway. The ones that killed my knife were all between 5 and 8 lbs.

The cheap knife I bought from Walmart to replace it with is doing great by the way.

I’ve cleaned 1000s of fish with an old Mister Twister, but the one i bought a few years again was garbage. I clean a lot of redfish. For the last two years I’ve been using an electric Rapala or a Bunba Blade:

I always hated sharpening Rapala fillet knives. I never could get them sharp as new. Sharpening is a big reason I like the DR traditional with traditional steel. I have only used the steel for years and a few swipes brings back shaving sharp. Being very thin carbon steel they sharpen extremely easily. Personally I would rather sharpen like that often than have a harder sharpening job less often. That's why I don't go in for expensive super steel fillet knives.

Bubba blade makes a battery powered one now too

Buy this combo and fillet anything! We've been using this for 2 years and love it. We're using the 8 1/2 inch freshwater blade. https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/reciprocating-saws-ps60-102-38658 https://filletzall.com. You can buy the sawzall kit refurbished for about $100.

Mr. Twister has been good to me. We cleaned over 200 big bluegill one day last week with the Mr. Twister. Works great.

Some of them big Florida bream?

Yes, Orange Lake in Gainesville. Caught them til we got tired of catching them.

I’m headed to to the Apalachicola river below Wewa very soon...

Berkley--when somebody gives me some fish.
I can halfway sharpen electrics with the smallest
chainsaw file I can find, and then a regular sharpener
for the flat side.
Bought an Ozark Trail 2 years ago and the teeth
were so agressive it tore through the fish
instead of cutting it.

Thanks for this thread, I need a good one too. I'll be following.

the cordless lithium ion bubba blade is the best electric knife ive ever used comes with 4 blades and 2 batteries i can filet a cooler full of fish on one battery and still have 50% charge left

Cordless bubba is nice but I’ve broken two of em so far. My favorite knife to use is a dexter prodex. This knife is amazing.

Another vote for the cordless bubba

Bubba blade is a good one. Bought a 9” flex several years ago. Would rather use it than an electric.