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09-12-2008, 10:41 AM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
Posts: 712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mako11
Nice fish.
I'm gonna guess you guys measured to the tips of 'pinched' tail. Whoever weighed it probably did a quick fork length to center tail. Fish do not shrink overnight.
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nah we did center of the tail.. no cheating. his uncle measured it before we got home and came up with the same number. 
still a damn good fish... told him to put more ice in there.. |
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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09-12-2008, 10:46 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Chris...tape measure flat under the fish....tip of lips to the tip of the tail.....no pinching! Nice fish!  I have found that if you keep the fish in a cooler well iced.....you will not lose any measurable weight......fish stay longer too!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-12-2008, 10:57 AM
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Surfcaster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 834
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Originally Posted by BigFish
tape measure flat under the fish....
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Bingo. |
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09-12-2008, 11:36 AM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
Posts: 712
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did that... but neither of us was there to see how it was measured today at the shop. so who knows where those 4 inches went..
trust me it was a flat tape measure (ya know the standard metal construction type), no pinching. from the end of the tail in the center to the tip of the mouth. 44 1/2 no curving it over the fish or anything. all i can think of they measured only to the tip of fleshy part of the tail where as we measured all the way to the end of the fin part.. |
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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09-12-2008, 11:55 AM
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Ban Sluggos
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: east taunton, ma
Posts: 363
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30lbs for a 44" fish is pretty much spot on from my experience. weighed straight out of the water it might have been a pound or two heavier...sorry to hear about the "shrinkage"...
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09-12-2008, 11:58 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jettyjockey18
30lbs for a 44" fish is pretty much spot on from my experience.
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Yep.
Congrats on the catch guys. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-12-2008, 01:06 PM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
Posts: 712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GonnaCatchABig1
nah we did center of the tail.. no cheating. his uncle measured it before we got home and came up with the same number.
still a damn good fish... told him to put more ice in there.. |
(edit - lol an hour later i realized what fork length means.. probably the case. but we still didnt pinch the tail.. ) |
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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09-12-2008, 01:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Onset
Posts: 1,228
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Congrats. Don't worry about the length, you officially caught your first 30. 4 people can measure the same fish and come up with 4 different lengths, thats why I believe in the scale.
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