How to make a FIN look BIG

[gonfishn]

Local folks in the North Woods refer to these little "Pooters" as {no account or trash fish}.<br />They are fun to catch along with the LB. plus Rock Bass we encounter during rest periods.<br /><br />Helps keep us limbered up between the Walleye and Gator Eye visits. Figure you Bassers out there would like to guess the poundage on these fins.<br />(I just Hookem and Cookem}. <br /><br />Although I think these put up a nice tug it still doesn't compare with sledge hit of a p....d off Muskie..<br /><br />

 

[ebbtide176]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

uhhh - 2.25 lbs?

 

[gonfishn]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

come on Ebb let me keep a little pride. The big pan should give me a little credit. Nice to have friends like you.....

 

[ebbtide176]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

i don't know what happened, it was a typo!!<br />i swear i meant 4.25 lbs on that bass in the big skillet <br /><br />this made me think of some guys i fished with in S GA. they'd swear it was a 7lb bass. lol<br />the first big bass i caught, i told my boss it was probably 4.5, and he laughed and said maybe 2.5 <br /><br />so he just happened to have scales in his tacklebox! it was 2.25lb

 

[NOSLEEP]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

Ya got to be careful with them old fish scales.<br />A few years back I was realign on my old trusty<br />de-liar to give us the weight on salmon & halibut<br />and the heavier fish. All them fish we caught for<br />years were out seven pounds light, on the old <br />de-liar. Its now resting comfortabley on the<br />bottom of the Seymour Narrows.

 

[Red Rider]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

ebb, you are not supposed to include the weight of the frying pan, in your calculations, unless its your own catch.

 

[Fishbusters]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

Honestly about 2# is what it looks like. Keeping in mind that northern bass weigh a little more for thier length you may convince me it went 3 but it could not be more.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

Eatin a bass? Isn't that sort of like cookin up the family pet.

 

[shooter26]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

3 1/2 on the left and 3 on the right.

 

[Fishbusters]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

BTW it looks like it could be the same fish in each photo but the angle and frypan are not.

 

[gonfishn]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

Pretty good shot Shooter. One went just under four and the other a little over three.<br />Ebb...Pretty quick on the retreat/did ya think your wife was behind ya for a second..<br />RedRider...I'll have to remember the skillett thing. What made you think of that one unless you have been there and done that.....<br />Flahthead... matter of fact dog and bass taste about the same. Now attempt to filet a Muskie and some fingers may come up missing.<br />PF....shame on you ....and I thought Ebb was trying to put the gaff on me....<br />NoSleep...I bet you would cheat on cards if you could. No way do I believe you deep sixing the scales...Probably used them when competing with friends.....<br /><br />Other threads getting a little to deep so I thought to bring a little humor....

 

[NOSLEEP]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

Gonfishn<br />Your not suggesting I make up stories are ya I don't speak with forked tung. <br />I dont even know how to play cards!

 

[FLATHEAD]

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Gonefishin, LMAO you dont know how right you are about the fingers. You must be phsycic. I hacked the first knuckle off on three fingers on my left hand, and no it wasn,t a Muskie. Table saw got em.<br />Tightlines Flathead. Muskie? You eat Muskie?

 

[Fishbusters]

Re: How to make a FIN look BIG

I still stand by my original guess. Most stove burner plates are something like maybe 12" across and the average large frypan is only 14" across so to me those fish may even go 2 1/2 #. Now this is factoring on the length of an average 2# bass here. I usually disagree with the guessed weights on those fishing shows done/from up north as I feel there is no way a fish that small/short can weigh that much. But given that I have been told they are longer for the same weight here versus one from up north your weight may just be on the money. Then agian I have friends from Wisconsin that think a 2# crappie is a monster and 8# bass is a trophy so I guess that there is something in the drinking water or something making all you northerners crazy Just kidding with you. It is realy hard to judge the weight of a fish from a picture especially considering that they are sort of bent from being in a cooler which may be making them look shorter than they realy are.