So, I went salmon fishing this weekend in Port Hope, Ontario. This was my third year going there to fish, and as usual, the fishing was good. I ended up hauling in 4 Chinook Salmon, 2 males and 2 females.


But, of course, there's nothing to give you an idea of their size.. So here you go.


Most guys get a pic of the biggest fish they caught, but I though it'd be a break to hold the smallest one, because my arms at that point were tired from holding the rest of them up to take all the pictures! LOL!

So, before heading home with the prize, I decided to do so quick filleting at the fish cleaning building, by just doing a quick full cut of the two fillets off each fish, and of course getting the row from the two females. Sadly, I was so busy doing this, I forgot to ask my dad to take some pics of how fast the BDLE made work of this.

When I first hauled it out, a few guys chuckled and said I'd be there all day with that little thing. They were all using six or seven inch flexible fillet knives. But, of course, salmon is a tough fish,and can dull a knife pretty fast. They were stopping to resharpen their knives, and I just kept going. I was tearing the fillets off the males in about 3 minutes, and roughly 4.5 minutes on the females, the extra time because of the care to ensure I didn't damage the row. They weren't laughing anymore, and a couple asked if I could fillet their fish too! LOL!

Dad and I packed it all up in the cooler and took off home to finish the cutting.



The BDLE made quick work of cutting the meat off the skin really easy. Until yesterday, I would never have thought that a rigid blade would excel over a flexible one for filleting, but the BDLE did just that. It made each of those salmon into this!


Now those are some nice boneless salmon steaks, ready to be put in the freezer!

Hmmm, after all of that filleting through, bone, scale, etc., I wonder how sharp my BDLE is?


Yup, factory edge, and still sharp enough to take the hair off my arm! (What little has grown back since the last time I tested an edge anyways! LOL!)

What could be better than this? Why, all the row I manged to get out of those two females, of course. Here's what I got out of just one of them.



What do you use it for? Why, for bait of course.



You clean them, cure them, and then make them into these nice little row sacks for catching future salmon and trout. Oh, happy day!

Now, I just need to get another BDLE; my dads' threatening to take mine if I don't get him one from the dog bowl tonight! LOL!