Thread: Filleting knife straight or curved?

Top standard generic filleting knife
bottom standard generic trimming knife


Filleting knife is longer with a deeper blade and relatively thin back to give flex and a rounded tip to ride the main bone.
used properly and sharp(of course) the flex and rounded tip will let you glide over bones on each side of the main bone getting great recovery.
Trimming knife is obviously shorter and pointier to provide a stiff accurate cut for trimming out pin bones blood spot etc.

I use a filleting knife on anything bigger than say a 30cm snapper but find the trimming knife good for smaller flat fish like terakie and flounder.
If your the kind of person that fillets in one cut from behind the gills and over the main bone in one swoop dis regard all the above,best you use a machete