answer me this?

NAUTI-NOTIONS · 09-20-2002, 01:17 PM

How is it that a 25#fish weights the same as a 50# bag of dog food until you put it on the scale,
i know i'm not alone here. i've had guy's refuse to let me weight their fish. always questioning the accuracy of the scale? :whazzup: [img]graemlins/icon_argue.gif[/img]

[ 09-20-2002, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Bumper_Chrome ]

BottomFeeder · 09-20-2002, 01:29 PM

It loses water and blood immediately after you take it out of the water but that accounts for probably a couple pounds at the most. But I know what you mean. Crab do the same thing when you're pulling them up and all you can see is that lovely brown-purple outline that gets smaller and smaller as it gets closer and closer to the boat until finally, when it is pinned down on the floor, it shrinks that final 1/8" below the legal limit!

p.s. sturgeon shrink immediately after removal from the net

TPM

GutZ · 09-20-2002, 02:21 PM

I was fishing Sooke, BC out of Sunny Shores this summer when a guide with clients walks up to the scale packing a fish. I said "nice fish! whats he go about 32?" Indignantly he says "It's at least 40" . The fish scaled at just over 33. He didn't talk much after that.

BigFish · 09-20-2002, 02:50 PM

If you weight and measure them, they can not grow :grin:

Dan Christopher · 09-20-2002, 03:07 PM

i saw people weight that they said was a 40 lb fish "i said 27" scale said 28 and there answer was " thats why i never weight them the scales are never right",duh

Cutter · 09-20-2002, 03:13 PM

I'm positive it has something to do with slime loss, that stuff must account for a good ten pounds. :grin:

TheRogue · 09-20-2002, 03:36 PM

I've guessed about 4lbs light on darn near every fish this year, I think it has to do with the depth of the body....these fish are SOOOO deep this year!!!

case in point:

I would've bet this fish ( http://www.ifish.net/ubb/ultimatebb....c;f=1;t=015542 ) was 32lbs, a guy weighed it on his Berkely digital scale, said 36.5.

This fish on my left I was betting on 28lbs ( http://sites.onlinemac.com/khensley/GB1.jpg ). It was 32-3/4 on a good scale at the resort. Go figure!!

Last Wednesday, a guy next to me got a fish I estimated at 18lbs....right after he said "Oh, that'll go 27-28lbs easy!!" Ended up being a shade over 20.....he didn't believe the scale :grin: :grin:

TR

rebell · 09-20-2002, 07:40 PM

NEVER....NEVER....NEVER take scales on your boat or allow anyone to see your fish. That way any 30# fish can be a 50# fish.

Old guide trick!

Uglygreen · 09-20-2002, 09:20 PM

It works the other way as well, Back in 1986 I got a 72 pound chrome bright chinook on Tillamook Bay. Weighed and photographed at the guide shop on wilson river highway. Most people think it is a 50-60 pound fish looking at the photo. Untill I point out the head of the fish is larger than the head of the angler, and the fish, with tail on the floor is as long as height of my shoulder. I an 6'2" tall.

I'll scan and post the photo sometime, you will see what I mean.

UG

FishinMission · 09-21-2002, 07:19 AM

A good scale will keep any fisherman honest...witnesses help too!!

Some fish have an uncanny ability to gain weight after they're whacked.

Mark

Straydog · 09-21-2002, 08:02 AM

I always wonder how guys and gals weigh the ones that came unbuttoned at the boat.....
how many times you hear "lost a 25lber today!!"
:whazzup: