No Brook trout but last fall it took the wings off of a bunch of doves that were breasted.The way the top edge is angled made it easy to use a downed tree as a cutting board and no worries about knuckle clearance.The point made removing the #7 1/2 shot from the meat.It also impressed our host Ethan Becker of Becker knives and patrol pack fame as well as the editor of The Joy Of Cooking and Cordon Bleau trained chef.He had to break out his mint stag handled model 1 and Gaurdian Randalls.