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Closed the office early and I got to fish for an hour this PM.
I started throwing a frog (my new kick) and I had sevarl blowups but no takers. the other day, I was doing the same and I kept getting hit (not blowups)....I couldn't figure it out until I laid low and watched the mouse...a BIG frog took it in! Luckily, he spit it out without getting hooked.
Anyway, watermelon red was the color of the day (lizard, brush hog & wacky).
I caught 4-5 of them and then I got some serious pullage with this 19 incher!
The weight was 3.3 pounds....no way, I need to throw my digital scale away!
He pulled nicely and took a little line too....very nice. He hit a 4" wacky with a circle hook. On the next cast I felt a tick and hooked this guy!
Two casts in a row....same lure! I caught two more behind my house before calling it a day.
When I got home, I tested my scale on some frozen hamburger packs, I had three of them. All of them weighed to the exact number and then I put them in the bag together and the weight was right on the money. It looks like I will be keeping my scale and keeping my "sure looks bigger" comments to myself.
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LOL, these high-tech scales keep us honest. I've doubted the accuracy of mine only to find it within an ounce when weighing 2 and 5 lb. dumbells.
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We always want that fish to be bigger.....so, whenever I hear a guesstimate, I am subtracting 25%!!
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that is a good formula ernie
i always try to pare mine down.
when i carried a scale it was fun to estimate and then check my eye.
i got pretty good at it
i am even better at guessing the weight of somebody else's fish, since the burden of emotional weight is absent.
a five pound bass is a lot of fish
when you get to six plus you are really getting porked
when i weighed walter, i was surprised he was only 12.8.
of course he may have been off his regular feed w/ my old jig in his mouth
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bigjeffie wrote:
i am even better at guessing the weight of somebody else's fish, since the burden of emotional weight is absent.
LOL, aren't we all?
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