Hey folks, instead of taking the priest poll further off topic, lets post our thoughts on the knife as a tool in a fishing situation.

Please continue the debate in this thread, i am undecided on whether i would carry a filleting knife with me or not. I may do further into the salmon season...

I carry a knive as they are useful for all sorts of situations...I also take a filleting knive with me when fishing lakes while intending on keeping one for the pot

Comes in handy on a Saturday night, if someone tries to slip in front of you in the queue at the Chinese...

"Meet Stanley................."..........

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Really? So you fillet on the bank? That sounds like a bit of a palarver…

Can't imagine many fisheries liking that !!!
I know when I went sea fishing I used to carry a Normark Filleting knife with me ( still have it) but in that case the guts went back in the sea for the gulls who were mighty grateful . It was the dog's danglies for filleting .

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In a perfect world yes carry one for all these accidents that you seem to think a knife will get you out off .


But modern times no its not exceptable .

Gut your fish at home whether your misses likes it or not .

put a poll on this thread out of interest

Only in today's hysteria-ridden UK with its culture of crime paranoia can this question even be, in all earnestness, asked.

To ask whether it's "justifiable" implies that there's some inherent link between a steel implement and the compulsion to use it to commit a crime. There is no such link. There never has been. Only today do we spend time discussing it because chattering away about it makes some feel like they are doing something to somehow prevent crime. Which, of course, they are not.

Obviously, it is completely justifiable to carry a knife at any time. What is unjustifiable is using it to commit a crime.

Only in the UK is it necessary for those who have no criminal intent whatsoever to have to justify perfectly reasonable things.

Grouse

i do not carry a knife
I do not think that you should dump fish guts back into the water where you caught your fish.It might bo ok if 1 or 2 anglers did it but if everyone did it it would be a stinking mess.IMHO.

Jim

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Pot, kettle and black Grouse..........................

Only thinking about your countries horrendous death count through hand gun ownership.

There is strict legislation in the UK, outlining when it is justifiable to carry a knife in a public place.

Worth a read.....

http://www.knifecrimes.org/experts-view.html

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I did jury service a few years ago and one case was someone who'd been stopped with a knife outside his home. The law meant that the defendant had to prove he had a lawful purpose for its possession.

I carried a penknife when fishing in my coarse days when it was used for chopping luncheon meat, but it always went in my bag not my pocket.

The defendants excuse that he was a chef was undermined by the fact his knife was in his sock!