Rockport Report

[Mildog]

I have been using electric knives to fillet since I took my moms carving knife out of the kitchen for a test spin over 40 years ago. There were not a lot of options back then. Now, as mentioned above there are lots of good ones. Both battery and plug in models. I have used most all of them. You can also buy inverters to plug in to cigarette lighter (harbor freight has some for under 10 bucks, so you can use your plug in model in boat or by vehicle or anywhere you have an adapter to plug it into. ( you can buy those adapters to put on portable batteries as well.)
One of my favorites is still the Green and Yellow Mr. Twister Electric fillet knife. Not too spendy and I have had them last for years, I have burned through only a few of them over 30 years, since I got the first one from the Store where I worked, but many thousands of fillets over many seasons before they give out. I use them on Bottom fish from the ocean, Stripers and all of the fish in Powell down to small panfish. The newer Mr. Twister ones have a sharpened chisel tip that is great for starting the cut on heavy scaled fish like stripers and works great for popping out cheek meat on walleye. Once you get good at it even small panfish are no problem and you can make short work of a big pile of fish.

I have a video from a while back a buddy and I made, I can't get it to load to post it here. In a nutshell the clip is 54 seconds long and 3 walleye were filleted in that time. We often have one person fillet and skin with an electric and the other take ribs off with a regular fillet knife, it is easy to take the ribs off with electric as well.
I can go through a batch of 40 perch in under 15 minutes no problem. Once you get the hang of it is a great way to go for panfish and other fish. About the only time I use a standard fillet knife anymore is for Kokes, they are so easy and quick no need for the electric although it works fine for that too.
Try it you will like it once you get good with it, It only takes a little practice.
Mildog out

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Pat, love to meet up somewhere to see your buzz saw tools. We are pretty flexible as to where / when as I am on the tail end of the house project and my heath has improved a bit - allowing a bit of get away time.

I will be hitting Echo soon to see if I can find those crappie

And we plan on chasing cats hard the next few weeks

My schedule is probably more flexible than yours.  So let me know what you have planned and I will try to show up at a mutually convenient spot.

You've had some good input from others.  Ultimately you will have to make your own choice(s).  Over the years I have personally used just about everything on the market and have my own opinions.  Not to offend any of the other posters but I have been unhappy with the Mister Twister.  They are affordable but underpowered for my tastes.  I went through three of them in less than two years.  Rapalas?  Decent, but the blades are designed with sharp points that tend to rip into skin on the skinning process and don't do as well on thin-skinned fish.  American Anglers are still in my bag...and still get used.  But the Bubbas are better.

Here are a few pictures from my fillet knife past...including one of a terrible ergonomics one with a blue handle.  To operate this rechargeable battery model you had to simultaneously press two buttons...which was almost impossible with one hand.  To use it I epoxyed one of the buttons permanently in place.  It filleted okay but the batteries only lasted for a few fish.


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