Whats the best filet knife for crappie?

Any knife will work, all preference.

I personally like the American Angler the best but many are good.

if you clean alot of fish, spray the blades with PAM or something similar, and the blades wont gum up, also, blades are cheap, but you can sharpen them yourself, sharper than they come new, some good vids on u tube showing how.

Do not get the more expensive one in the black case from academy,the one that has the different power source hook ups. It is not as powerful as the cheaper knives. The only plus is the CASE.

x2 i really like the mister twisters they have been good to me

I use American Angler. Get the blades that are thin and flexable, they work best!

Hey Kevin & Cliff,
I'm thinking about getting the AA model 31615 (110+12v).
Do you have the "Shark" blade?

I just bought a mister twister from academy. I will try it out after my next good crappie trip.

I got American Angler but sucks that Academy decontinued them.

cheapest one you can find, they all wear out.

The American Angler 12v/110 model normally $50 is on sale this week at Cabella's for $14.99. I have used many of their 110 volt cheap ones and never had a problem. To me if, you pay $15 for a knife and get a year or two of hard use out of it before it has troubles, that was still a great value. I was fishing 140 days a year when I was using them full time.

I have invested an absolute fortune in the Rapala electrics and have been incredibly disappointed. I have the 12v, 2 110 12v combos and the 110 only. The last one is the only one I can use, but much prefer the cheaper AA previously mentioned. Also the Rapalla knives use proprietary blades and will not use the specialty replacement blades the others share.
I have been a fan of Rapalla for decades, but they lost me on their electric knives.

If you want to go traditional (non electric) and don't clean 300 crappie a week then the cork handled Browning has become my favorite since I posted this on YouTube about it last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmUDb1O46HM

I am just now getting up to about 75% as fast as with my electrics, but I keep it very sharp quite easily. (I am a full time woodcarver and sharpening things is not much of a stress for me)I don't know how it would hold an edge if I didn't touch it up after every use.

I have the Mister Twister and it works great.

Reggie

Just for info., the Rapala electric will accept Mr. Twister Blades.

I still use the same type of knife I was taught to fillet with when I was about 12.

The original wood handled rapala. I have a set of 30 year
old ceramic sticks, and a 20 year old knife. ( lost a knife
somewhere along the way) Five or six strokes on the
sticks before each cleaning session will bring it to
shaving sharpness.
I don't know if the current production of Rapala knives
are as good as the old ones , I doubt it , nothing seems to
be.

MO