Hello everyone, first time poster here so bear with me, I use an electric fillet knife to clean almost all of the fish I catch. I do on occasion do a few crappie for frying whole just for old times sake but after I got used to the electric I'll never go back to the regular fillet knife. I still own several good fillet knives that get used to trim ribs and trim redmeat off of stripe and catfish but I promise the electric is well worth the time it takes to get good with it, the best advice I can give for learning with the electric is don't hurry, speed will come with practice .