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Great Catch Paul!
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Low 40s? I would have guessed 29 to 32 pounds. how many really big fish have any of you acually seen? there is a huge difference between a 40lb bass and a 31lb bass. But congrats, nice fish but not close to a 40 !
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yup, nice 1
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Well dave, not everyone is an expert who has caught and seen many large bass, and only a few were even aware of the size of Piemma. If it had been Flaptail holding that fish , and the angle was better with the fish displayed to show the girth, I would have gotten it within a pound or 2 I bet. But you got to see it in 3 dimensions, HUGE difference there seeing it in person. Hard to tell how long the fish is from that shot. A picture on the computer is completely different than in person and I think you know that. Maybe that was Paul's point of the thread.
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either way that is a nice fish!! congrats man!
yeah, it's hard to tell from pictures, although I seem to be decent at eyballing fish caught on TV! :rotfl: |
Nice fish Paul
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I would have guessed 40 but since I saw you post on another site that it was in the 30s,,,,I knew better!
Awesome fish and informative post, almost everyone added over ten pounds to the fish! |
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My guess was 38# before scrolling through. Nice fish! Well done :claps:
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is it me
or is that fat bass built more like a tuna?
nice bass Paul :claps: |
Not only are they "offf, but they're convinced they're not off."
"Look at the belly on that fish....has to be at least 40!" It takes catching quite a few fish to be able to get reasonably accurate, and even then knowlegable folks can be off by 15% very frequently. I had it at 37 pounds before I saw the answer. |
Nice fish Paul! Photos can be deceiving!
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Indeed. This fish amazed me. i really thought, at first, it was high 30s. When I got it in the boat I knew it wasn't but it just looked BIG. I think the real difference was that it had a smallish head, big belly but no shoulders.
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I thought it looked like a forty but had the head of a twenty. I didn't know if it was gonna be high or low, but figured it was deceiving.
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42#
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Hey, Paul. Are you registered with a tem, or just individually???
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Fishing for RISAA this year
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First off, how tall are you?:huh:
Lokks can be decieving, I am 6'6" 260 lbs and when I hold a 30 pounder everyone thinks it's a 15.:rolleyes: On the other hand when Numbskull holds a 30 pounder it looks like a 60. ( shrimp):eek5: Tough call unlees you have something to gauge it by. Nice fish non-the -less! |
so flaptail?
since you are a very tall and large man...
what percentage bigger BODY would you say you have over the average fisherman? 20% larger? |
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He said larger Steve, not smaller
20 % larger.. :D :D:D:D |
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