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Originally Posted by capesams
with fish being on the skinny side these days....a 40" fish sounds better then a 17lber.or racer as us old farts call them.I've caught 36" fish as low as 11 lb's...sad indeed.
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I think that's a big part of it. If people don't press the issue, that 36" fish would be assumed to be 36# if a guy just says, "I got a 36".
Actual conversation I had on the Canal this summer:
"Hi xxxx, you guys do anything?"
"I got some shorts, but xxx got two nice fish".
"Really? How big?"
"Oh, 31, 32"
Stop the conversation right here, and who wouldn't believe the guy was talking pounds?
"He got a 32 pounder?"
"No, no, 32 inches".
That was the day I started asking when a 32" bass became a "nice fish".
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