Walleye Cheaters

[Disgruntled]

Length alone is useless for largemouths. Length plus girth however will get you close. Depending on sex, time of year, location and subspecies, a 24 inch fish could vary 3-4 pounds.

 

[tcc]

I report Largemouth in length, not weight. Heard of too many 19" fish reported as "5 pounders". While one can exaggerate length too, a tape measure is more accurate than a Zebco pocekt scale.

Several years ago I pulled in a quarry bass that fed off a river and at some point the river flooded the fish over into the quarry. Silvery coloring, long and lean. Beat up as he11.

The fish went 25 1/4 in length but couldn't have weighed more than a 23" pond bass.

I searched the internet for a length = weight calculator for Largemouth which gave the approximate weight based on length.

Went something like:
22" = 3-5 pounds
23" = 5 pounds
24" = 6 pounds
25" = Liar

I was devastated.

Length alone is useless for largemouths. Length plus girth however will get you close. Depending on sex, time of year, location and subspecies, a 24 inch fish could vary 3-4 pounds.

I have caught 3 bass over 26in(one right at 27in)--none broke 8 lbs

 

[HNTFSH]

Length alone is useless for largemouths. Length plus girth however will get you close. Depending on sex, time of year, location and subspecies, a 24 inch fish could vary 3-4 pounds.

Oh certainly...I just keep it simple in a float tube. I'd like to mount 1 more as I catch-n-release 99.9% of the time. I'll know it when I catch it, weighed or not. If I do, it's just to complete the brass tag info on the mount. I've put back some very nice fish that I'd like to catch again but anymore, secret spots with nice fish are getting thin.

The kayak weekend warrior has ruined much.

 

[BFG]

They lost one boat, but they won a Warrior two falls ago in the Walleye Slam. There were very few actual pics of that fish, and those who saw it immediately threw up the BS flag. So...they entered the same fish in two derbies, failed the polygraph in one and were DQ'd, and passed the polygraph in the other and won the Warrior. We will never know, but IMO the fish that won the Warrior was stuffed with lead. It weighed far too much for its length.

The tourney trail will be changed forever as a result. New rules and regulations will abound. So it goes.

The one guy has more legal problems as he and his 18 year old kid were busted for passing counterfeit $100 bills at a local bowling alley, and that was AFTER all of this went down. Some guys just can't help themselves, eh?

 

[creedsduckman]

Length alone is useless for largemouths. Length plus girth however will get you close. Depending on sex, time of year, location and subspecies, a 24 inch fish could vary 3-4 pounds.

I caught my biggest bass last year. It went 6-14 on my scale and if I recall was about 22" long. Can't remember the exact date right off hand but was late April-early May.

Edit... just looked through the fishing thread and found the picture, May 2.

 

[FowlWeatherFan]

Sometimes taking calls away is the best thing to do for hunting...

I equate fishing electronics with using ecallers.




They show you where the fish are located, hence, the "crutch reference"
Kind of like using drones to find where the trophy buck is located...

Or trail cameras for deer? Scent killer....blinds

 

[HNTFSH]

Or trail cameras for deer? Scent killer....blinds

I saw Kansas just outlawed trail cams on public lands.

 

[reddogge]

2018 I caught a 7.5# bass in tidal waters of MD. I never got a chance to measure it. I do have a mounted 6.5# bass caught in SC and it was 24". My friend caught a 10.5# bass in FL last year and I'll have to measure it. It looks longer than 24" to me though.

 

[Josh carpenter]

So will Odnr sell the boat?

 

[nobands]

I just gave a farmer 2 5 gallon buckets of lead for his new hobby of making jigs .
Maybe should have kept it and start entering fishing tournaments , live like the rich and famous for awhile.