Super User buzzed bait Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 If you use digital scales to weight a fish (especially the kind with the "curved hook" part you slide under the gills to hold) do you ever use the lip grippers and then weight them like that? Similar to how they do on MLF? I hate hanging a nice fish by their gills and was thinking about doing this method using my pair of Fish Grips and my Berkley scale.... Kinda Sorta like this 1 Quote
blckshirt98 Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 I actually like that idea in the picture. I have a BogaGrip and was looking at digital scales but most have the hook and I wasn't sure what the best way was to measure weight. I had heard the side of the gill, or piercing the lip or even putting the fish in a bag and putting the bag handles on the hook (but this sounded bad for the protective slime coating). This would let me use the Boga and use a hook weight. 1 Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 I do a lot of times. My fish grips weigh .19 lb....this year. I coulda swore they weighed .21 last year...they were dieting over the winter, I suppose. 3 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted March 21, 2016 Author Super User Posted March 21, 2016 26 minutes ago, blckshirt98 said: I actually like that idea in the picture. I have a BogaGrip and was looking at digital scales but most have the hook and I wasn't sure what the best way was to measure weight. I had heard the side of the gill, or piercing the lip or even putting the fish in a bag and putting the bag handles on the hook (but this sounded bad for the protective slime coating). This would let me use the Boga and use a hook weight. i mean i don't weigh every fish, but the ones i do i weigh because i think they're chunky and i'd like to know for sure what they weigh. BUT i feel like putting that hook in the gill could somehow do some damage. seems like this would be a much better solution to me, and i already have both ingredients to make it happen... 15 minutes ago, Choporoz said: I do a lot of times. My fish grips weigh .19 lb....this year. I coulda swore they weighed .21 last year...they were dieting over the winter, I suppose. LOL, see i need an excuse as to why it didn't weight as much as it should have!! do you tare or zero out your scales when you do it or just always know to subtract the weight of the grips from the overall weight? Quote
Super User Choporoz Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 I use these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Portable-Electronic-Hanging-Fishing-Digital-Pocket-Weight-Hook-Scale-40kg-10g-/201182152447?hash=item2ed76406ff:g:vxYAAOSwnDZUKd7b and just subtract the weight...only because I never figured out how to make the tare weight persistent. I'd have to weigh the fish grips again each time I turn it on. I bought three of them. One's in kayak bag, one's in boat bag and a spare... 3 Quote
Super User Darren. Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 Boga user here. They're darn accurate and so much better than the gill hooks. I've lost two digi-scales to Davey Jones' Locker, both with the hooks. Miss the second one I lost, but love my Boga. Only thing I miss is the digital precision. But my 15lb Boga is good to the 1/4 pound, so if the fish is just over the 3 1/4 mark, I'll say it was a hair over 3 1/4 pounds... I still have an eye on digital scales, and will probably pull the trigger on another one in the future. 1 Quote
Super User the reel ess Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 I have some grips for that very purpose. 1 Quote
Super User OkobojiEagle Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 You don't hang them from the gills... they hang from the bottom jaw in front of the gill opening. oe 4 Quote
aj88kc Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 I HATE seeing anything done in the gill area. Whether it be some one weighing a fish or picking up a huge catfish by the gill area. Most scales have a tare option and even if yours doesn't just subtract your grips from your final weight. Grips are the way to go. 1 Quote
Super User gulfcaptain Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 6 minutes ago, OkobojiEagle said: You don't hang them from the gills... they hang from the bottom jaw in front of the gill opening. oe X2. And then the fish goes back in the water. If the fish looks distressed or slightly bleeding, then I leave the fish in the water, hang over in uncomfortable positions and work to get the fish unhooked while they are in the water to keep the stress level as well as any nicks that may happen from becoming worse since water pressure seems to keep them from bleeding, then let them go no picture or weight. I have more of a problem with people laying the fish in the grass next to something or in the dirt to get a picture for accuracy and run around with the fish more then how they weight them. 2 Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 Berkley digital scale and fish grip is exactly how we do our week night tounaments. Works great 2 Quote
bigturtle Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 fish grip jr + scale, fiddling with a hook in the gill area isnt my cup of tea. 1 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted March 21, 2016 Author Super User Posted March 21, 2016 39 minutes ago, OkobojiEagle said: You don't hang them from the gills... they hang from the bottom jaw in front of the gill opening. oe so you poke a hole in the bottom jaw and put the hook from the scale through the hole? Quote
Super User WRB Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 Use a throw away plastic grocery bag, put the bass in the bag and hang the bag by the handles on the scale hook. Easy, doesn't damage the bass in any way. Most digital scales have a zero buttom to use after adding a fish gripper to the scale. Tom 1 Quote
tbone1993 Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 I use the berkley digital scale with the grip attachment. It isn't 100% perfect but it gets the job done. 1 Quote
Super User Darren. Posted March 21, 2016 Super User Posted March 21, 2016 1 hour ago, OkobojiEagle said: You don't hang them from the gills... they hang from the bottom jaw in front of the gill opening. oe You are correct, but technically, it's in the gill area. And a feisty fish may not be easily "hooked" in that spot. As well, sometimes it takes multiple efforts to hook the bass properly for the weight. Maybe it's just me whose had those hooks not cooperate when I'm trying to weigh an angry sow 1 Quote
WolfyBrandon Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 Last year I weighed all of my fish, and have come to really hate the hook hanger! The fish always seem go crazy and flop off of it. I even went out of my way to use a vice to close the hook more, but it didn't seem to help. This year I plan to upgrade the scale to use a gripper.WolfyBrandon 2 Quote
Burtonxj Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 Shoot. I don't even have a scale. I'm good with a quick snap and back in the water it goes. 1 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted March 21, 2016 Author Super User Posted March 21, 2016 55 minutes ago, WRB said: Use a throw away plastic grocery bag, put the bass in the bag and hang the bag by the handles on the scale hook. Easy, doesn't damage the bass in any way. Most digital scales have a zero buttom to use after adding a fish gripper to the scale. Tom seems easy enough, but requires me carrying a bag around in the kayak and i imagine a number of plastic bags would end up in the lake and god knows there's already enough trash in most of them 5 minutes ago, Burtonxj said: Shoot. I don't even have a scale. I'm good with a quick snap and back in the water it goes. i hear ya, i just don't want to be the guy posting the "what do you think it weighs?" thread after i stick a piglet! 1 Quote
Super User WRB Posted March 22, 2016 Super User Posted March 22, 2016 2 hours ago, buzzed bait said: seems easy enough, but requires me carrying a bag around in the kayak and i imagine a number of plastic bags would end up in the lake and god knows there's already enough trash in most of them i hear ya, i just don't want to be the guy posting the "what do you think it weighs?" thread after i stick a piglet! The light weight grocery plastic bag fits into any pocket and can be used for your trash, it also makes a good emergency toilet bag. Simple solution to prevent hanging the bass by it's gills. If you own a landing net, use that. Tom Quote
Super User Wayne P. Posted March 22, 2016 Super User Posted March 22, 2016 I have been using the gripper since I saw it used on MLF. I zero the scale with it hanging on the hook and then clip it to the fish to get the actual fish weight. Don't have to account for the weight of the gripper. 4 Quote
blckshirt98 Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 2 hours ago, WRB said: The light weight grocery plastic bag fits into any pocket and can be used for your trash, it also makes a good emergency toilet bag. Gross. lol Quote
primetime Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 The Rapala Formula for weight, or the one that is on most sites...Get the length of the girth, length to fork of tail, and then a length of tip to tip...I usually cut a piece of mono so I can get the fish back in the water as quickly as possible... I have found that using that formula, and then using a scale, usually get the fish within an ounce almost every time..The key is getting the girth right, but I have a Rapala scale that has a lip gripper and goes to 25lbs that is pretty accurate, I gave it to a friend who likes to weigh everything, I think it has a hook as well, I don't think hanging a big bass from the gripper is the right way but I am not sure..I only have fish weighed if it is in a tournament or if I think it is "Special"...But I trust the formula, if it says 6.8 and I think 7, I go with the 6.8 based on tests and it is really close and much easier than trying to weigh a big bass imo... I don't like stressing fish in the spring especially, although I am probably just paranoid, but I try to get them back in the water as quickly as possible and I usually don't take them all the way out unless I have a camera handy which is rare since I fall in the water often.... 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted March 22, 2016 Global Moderator Posted March 22, 2016 The grippers on the scale hook works well for me. 1 Quote
Steveo-1969 Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 I usually weigh my fish by holding it up, guessing the weight and then doubling it... Works for me! 6 Quote
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