https://www.captdaves.com - I DO REPORTS FOR JACKSONVILLE BOAT CLUB ABOUT ONCE A MONTH AND I SHARE THEM HERE WITH YOU.
HAD TWO OVER-SIZED REDBASS,
FRIDAY MORNING, BEFORE ONE CREW MEMBER WAS SEA-SICK WITH THE SEA FLU IN THE BIG SWELLS, WHICH FORCED US INTO THE RIVER, WHERE THERE WAS NEXT TO ZERO ACTION. HAD SAME CREW ON SATURDAY, BUT OUT OF NO-WHERE (full moon tide) WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CURRENT, JUST TOO MANY BOATS AROUND, AND AWFUL CONDITIONS AND ''ZERO'' BITES! (WE DID HAVE A WEAKFISH AND SOME WHITING IN THE RIVER)
FILLETING SHEEPSHEAD...there is another way!
I'm the kinda guy who loves Speckled Trout for the fact of what it takes to either catch a bunch of them, or what it takes to catch big ones, here in N.E. Florida.
And while filleting them for customers, I usually mention the fact that along with a Whiting, there's not really a easier fish around here to fillet and skin, to boneless ''back strap'' perfection.
I've always disliked cleaning Sheepshead. And while there, throw in Redfish and it's ugly cousin the Black Drum.
Guess you could say that being a float-rig and live Shrimp fishing machine, targeting Speckled Trout for 9 months out of the year, has spoiled me when it's time to put a knife to those, 'other species'.
Then, after years of cussing, while at my stern mounted fillet table on my 26' Jettywolf, year after year. I talked to Capt.Paul from Texas.
He developed the Filletzall Blade. And since then, I now look forward to cleaning the nastiest, scaliest, most armor plated fish we can stick a hook in.
Unlike touch screens in the dash, or 4 doors on a truck. I love innovations, especially when they are tools and knives mixed together. I love knives, I love power tools.
That's why I just had to get me the Filletzall system, which are Dexter-Russell 'made in the USA', scalloped fillet blades, with the end machined universally to fit in any reciprocating saw. A Makita one-handed lithium battery operated reciprocating saw, is recommended.
THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANDPA'S MISTER-TWISTER ELECTRIC FILLET KNIFE, USED FOR THOSE CRAPPIES AND BLUEGILLS.....NO WAY!
Here's a link to my Youtube video at the 2018 JOSFC EL Cheapo Sheepshead Tournament, where I volunteer as a fish cleaner: https://youtu.be/_46svqqBcvc
And here's a link to a Birthday girls big March 2018 catch and filleting video:
If you never knew such blades existed, or your like me and love power tools and knives. Well, here's your personal FYI. www.filletzall.com
Every time I drop a big nasty scaley fish on a fillet table and whip out my set of Filletzall blades and my Makita reciprocating saw, I'll grunt a few times like 'Tim, the Tool Man Taylor, and say to myself.....
'MORE POWER!'
