Flex is the whole design question on a fillet knife, and 8 inches of DEXSTEEL high-carbon steel ground thin gives a middle setting — it bends against a rib cage and springs back rather than folding. The Sani-Safe handle is textured, which is what keeps it usable with wet, slick hands.
It is the size that covers most freshwater and inshore fish: perch, walleye, trout, sea bass, snapper. The blade is long enough to take a fillet off in one stroke on a medium fish, and short enough not to fight you on a small one.
Dexter-Russell has made cutlery in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818, and its fillet patterns are long-standing fixtures on American docks and fish counters.
