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09-22-2009, 03:32 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
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Originally Posted by GattaFish
hmmm,,,, 58" ????  |
There's always one in every bunch!
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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09-22-2009, 04:04 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by 5/0
There's always one in every bunch!
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58" with a nice belly is a huge fish. Not sure of the accuracy of the chart i'm using but the minimum weight of a 55" inch fish is 56lbs and the minimum weight went up 4 lbs from 54". If that scale is correct the least that fish could weigh would be 68lbs. If it had "a nice belly" potentially it would be a world record fish as the average weight for a 55" fish is 70lb using the same scale.
I'm not going to criticize anyone for releasing or keeping a fish but that fish would be hanging from a scale if it was me. I would have to know the lbs. It would bug me if I didn't. Claiming to catch a 58" fish is going to generate some discussion.
Last edited by luds; 09-22-2009 at 05:07 PM..
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09-22-2009, 04:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
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Nice catch - would have liked to have seen that situation - weighing a biggun like that in the water floating around ... hats off to you for catching and releasing the thing.
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09-22-2009, 04:35 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
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These charts are pretty handy for recreational fishing and a quick guied line for bragging rights,I feel the best way for true accuracy is to weigh it in at a weigh station with a certified scale,but in this case she was released so from here on out it's all speculation and what ifs.
The chart are based on average fish length,weight & girth, the number of fish that were used in this survey is also averaged up to help the making this chart,
I truly don't know when this chart was last updated but I don't think it's up to todays bass standard weights.
As and example I caught a 49.5" fish the minimum weight is 44# she was only 40# I have caught countless fish that fall short of the charts.
I hear what your saying, a fish of that size and how it was measure is kinda questionable but if this is how he's been doing it and believes it's accurate then I believe him.
If I was to catch a fish that size I don't know what I would do.....I would be at a tough cross road.
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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09-22-2009, 04:45 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
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Originally Posted by 5/0
There's always one in every bunch!
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I never doubted he C&R a great fish,,,, but the accuracy is tough to justify all things considered.... |
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09-22-2009, 04:49 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Accuracy hard to guage but it was A) Big and B) Released. Thumbs up.
Now back to my call with India
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