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A group devoted to the Angler and the Angler at Heart.

If the topic has anything to do with fishing, this is the place to post. Tell us your fishing stories, talk about tackle old and new! What you like and what you don’t like.

Bought some new equipment and want to tell us about? We want to hear about it.

Thinking about buying a new pole and want to know it if it is worth the money? Ask up!

Do you collect fishing tackle? Show it off with pride!

Any type of angler with any skill level is welcome!

And as this is I Knife Collector, this is also a place to talk about the knives made, used and collected by anglers! We especially want to see your fishing knives -- in the tackle box, on display, or in action!

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Thoughts about Custom Rods

Started by Old Guy Dec 11, 2018. 0 Replies 1 Like

I was reading a discussion here about how pleased a member was with his purchase of a Dobyns rod. He commented that the only thing that bugged him was the placement of the hook keeper which…Continue

Fishing rods I am now using

Started by Peter Creager. Last reply by Peter Creager Dec 11, 2018. 1 Reply 0 Likes

I got some money, so I always liked higher end stuff, sort of you get what you pay for these days. I have all the normal St. Croix, G.Loomis , etc... however I came across a brand named Dobyns. I…Continue

Fisherman's Knives

Started by horace rogers. Last reply by Charles Sample Apr 18, 2018. 13 Replies 3 Likes

My passion is about fisherman's knives. Hope to meet and talk with others that collect themContinue

Leave it to Cleaver

Started by Tobias Gibson. Last reply by dead_left_knife_guy May 20, 2017. 5 Replies 6 Likes

Picked up two purpose made Fish Cleavers. On is made by Ka-Bar, the other by Robeson. I'm not sure if anyone is still making these but they really seemed to be a perfect size for cutting bait fish…Continue

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Comment by Jan Carter on October 5, 2015 at 21:20: hmmm, I have never heard them called banana knives. Good to know !

Comment by Tobias Gibson on October 1, 2015 at 8:03: Hi Jeff, to date, i have two of the Banana Trout Knives. (Gaff Knives)

Oops! Make that three, when you include the cork handled floater!

Why did Jeff call it a Banana knife? I'm just guessing:

KnifeMaker Comment by Jeff West on September 30, 2015 at 21:07: Thanks,for the invitation to the group. I will try to post some of my fishing knives .Tobias have you found one of those "banana fish knives yet". I have tosee a guy that supposedly has a couple of the kin folk knives . I will keep you posted . Been on the road with tattoo conventions and trying to catch a couple of knife shows in the process. Well of to the shep the flounder are calling and the lights need fixin

Comment by Tobias Gibson on September 27, 2015 at 19:19: Michael, well to the discussion. The season seems to be rough over in the Lake Michigan region as well, at least in Chicago and NW Indiana. I hope you are right about 2016.

I'm like your wife, at least when it comes to small perch. They're jerks. Nine times out of ten they swallow the hook so deep that you just know they are dead if you try to remove it and have zero chance of survival if you cut the line and release them. But they are yummy!

Comment by Michael Lee Bibbey on September 27, 2015 at 6:34: I just love to fish and can feel their presence when they get close to my line.

The wife says she just hates to perch fish , but I still have hope.

We fish mainly lake erie and use what works, but had short season this year. 2016 will be different and I will be ready.

good luck fishing!

Comment by Jan Carter on September 17, 2015 at 17:24: Well I am glad someone figured this out! Fisherman have always known

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Comment by John H Naffke Jr on September 10, 2015 at 16:40: Me too, I've been fishing much longer than collecting anything besides memories. But I've always had an appreciation for hand tools. I visited Randall Knives when I was in Boy Scouts probably around 1968 or so I was fascinated by what I saw, not so much to be bladesmith but by the sheer beauty of a Randall knife. I really only started collecting a few years ago and bought my first (and only) Randall at Blade Show 2013. I do have several maker knives in my collection and just ordered one from Preston Roberts of the Mountain Man television series. There is just something about a well made tool, custom or production, that just sets me off.

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on September 10, 2015 at 9:51: Tobias, I was a fisherman long before I was a knife collector. But no, I didn't start collecting knives because I was a fisherman.

I do have 24 fish knives in my collection, all the two blade variety. I may or may not ever add the one blade type to my collection.

And I have never actually used any of my fish knives for fishing!

Comment by Tobias Gibson on September 10, 2015 at 9:06: We are currently at 48 members to this group. That's not too shabby! I mean after all people don't join groups about the knife collecting to actually talk fishing! They join knife groups to talk knives!

On that note, I'm guessing everyone here happens to collect knives - (Of Course I could be wrong!)

My question is did anyone here begin collecting knives because their love of fishing?

I know my knife collection includes quite a few knives of the fishing nature, but my knife collecting started with military knives. It was only recently that I started collecting fishing knives and that is in part because I started collecting old tackle and had already been an avid knife collector. Among the knives I got a real fancy for were the large toothpicks which are essentially a folding variety of bird & trout knives. The same frame and the sabre ground California clip blade is often used on the two blade fish knives so it was an easy hop from the toothpick to the fish knife.

I also know that the knives I use when fishing, with the exception of fillet knives, have rarely been made specifically for fishing!