[Overtime Fishing]

I am sure I'll be scorned for this but here goes. Two weeks ago we had a three man tog limit and my dad severely cut himself on the first fish. He always uses the wooden Dexter, great knife no doubt. Blood is everywhere when I realized what happened. He fileted his left ring finger between two knuckles and cut a small artery in the finger, not ideal. So my mom takes him to the hospital and they cauterize it 4 times, lot of pain. He's fine now, it's healing.

So here I am with 18 fish to clean. I rarely filet since I typically clean the boat while he does the fish. I can do fluke and skin but other than that I'm pretty worthless. My buddy also didn't know how whatsoever. So we go on YouTube and I give it a shot. Guy on my dock watches me struggle for a few minutes then finally bails me out. I offer a case of beer and he does them all for me... In 10 minutes, skinned and all!!

Here's the catch, he used an electric knife. This thing was incredible and was $14 at Walmart. Cut one side, goes right through bones almost effortlessly, then skin the piece while still attached to the tail. So I make the $14 investment, I think it was an Outdoor Angler brand and it's fantastic on the tog. My dad hates an electric knife in the kitchen and he loves this thing. Best part, besides the time factor is that I can even pull perfect filets off the fish with the thing. It takes the entire side off and doesn't lose meat at all. It does take the rib section off of the fish with the filet but I just trim them before vacuum sealing the filets since I save them for the smoker anyways. The guy who introduced me to this gem swears by it for all round fish. Seasbass, tog, cod, striper, etc. Sounds crazy but definitely worth a shot.