Tackle Tuesday... MAP Meat Cutter

This entry was posted on 8th December, 2015

As seen in Match Fishing Magazine…

Meat Cutting Made Easy… Matt Godfrey explains why the MAP meat cutter is an essential item in his armoury.

There always used to be a knack to cutting up luncheon meat. I used to watch my grandad do it the night before we went fishing. After the mission of getting the tin open in the first place, you had to somehow remove the meat from it before the major operation began.

The task was to try and cut that meat into similar sized cubes without the main chunk folding. Not only did you need to cut in straight lines for this, you also had to try and hold the block of meat together at the same time, and make three cuts before cubes appeared. If the dog was lucky, he’d get the greasy end bits. Showing me the MAP meat cutter back then would have been like showing a caveman an iPhone!

There really isn’t that much to say about this device, other than the fact that it is absolutely brilliant. It takes me around one minute to open a tin of meat, cut it up and begin fishing with it.



The device works by simply placing the chunk of meat in one section and plunging it through the sharp blades into the next compartment. You can then plunge it through another set, which leaves you with cubes that are very neatly cut, and all exactly the same size. This is a huge advantage when feeding because it enables you to accurately introduce the meat when feeding by hand or with a catapult, even at distances beyond 16 metres.

What’s more is the adaptability of the cutter. The blades are embedded in a small pull-out section of the cutter, allowing you to remove them. This allows you to quickly change the size of the cubes of meat that you need.

You can buy separate sizes of meat cutter blades too, and the attention to detail with these is frightening. They come in 4mm, 5mm, 6mm, 7mm, 8mm and 10mm! This may seem pedantic at first, but the importance of this really hit home when I recently asked Steve Ringer which size of meat he had used while fishing a festival at White Acres.

“It’s around 7mm, definitely bigger than six, but not quite eight” he replied.



To me, that is the utmost proof that size makes a difference, and MAP has every option covered with it’s cutters.

The device is easily cleaned and can be stored neatly with all the spare blades in the specific meat case also made by MAP.

The cutters make the job so easy; you can in fact cut up the meat as and when you need it on the bank, meaning you only use one tin at a time as fresh as you need it.

I also used the cutter to make mushed meat by simply passing the cubes back through the cutter two or three times, depending on how fine I need it. This is a perfect feed and fish attractor when mixed sloppy with a little ground bait, especially when fishing in shallow water in the margins or against a far bank.

However much meat fishing you do, I can guarantee that the MAP cutter will make your life easier!

Buy The MAP Meat Cutter