Berkley cordless fillet knife (opinions)

Cabela's has the cordless Berkley turbo fillet knife on sale, would like some opinions from people who currently use one. I have a rapala electric fillet knife that works great but would like one without the cord. Reviews on Berkley aren't the best. thanks in advance for any information

This post has been edited by korker on Dec 26, 2018 - 12:04 pm

I bought one three years ago....really don't like the blades it came with.....found my manual Solingen knives to work much better so I went back to using them....serrations are to deep in the blade for my liking.....I use a combination of three straight blade Solingen knives and have used those for 40 years and they are still going well and doing a great job.......the Berkely knife was a Xmas gift from my wife......I would save your money.

I had one it was good plugged into the wall. But the battery life was good for about four perch. And I still use my buck fillet knife for taking skins off and ribs out
But I swear by my corded Rapala for taking the fillet.
Did 74 perch in 47min 18 sec
Two guys one taking fillets go right threw the ribs
Other guy ribbing and skinning

Complete Junk. Just buy yourself a decent fillet knife it will be much better. Unless you have money you want to throw away or a money tree in the backyard.

I bought a Mister Twister electric fillet knife years ago and is still running strong.... Just sayin...

Korker: I think you're spot on with the cordless vs corded knife; Buddy had the same issue with short battery life and I've heard the same complaint from others.

As far as the whole "power" vs "manual" knife, and the obvious personal preference/what-you've-gotten-used-to argument, it's probably related to the job you're doing or what fish you're cleaning, as well. 74 lakers, whities, rainbows, etc. would probably convert most of us over to electric,..... Obviously not going to happen,.... "legally". And like Beamer866 described for perch, a different knife for different parts of the job -- akin to how many fishing poles/reels we own for different species and methods. Perch get filleted with the electric and thrown into two piles (left and right), then the standard knife does the ribbing and skinning. Efficient! Not artistic! Lakers, whities, rainbow, salmon, etc. still get the "artistry" of the manual knife from beginning to end.

.....just one guy's preference here.

stay with the corded one, i have both and you can do about 3 - 4 walleye on the cordless before it dies, would not bother with perch as that is a numbers game besides washing a knife that can do a dozen small fish before it dies seems like a waste of time if you need to pull out a corded or manual to finish. Maybe if you did a catch and cook on the ice but i would still use a fillet knife in that scenario.