What does she weigh???

[juandi824]

Caught a nice fish using a whopper plopper last week. Unfortunately no scale in hand. What do y’all think it weighs? This in fact is my PB.

[A-Jay]

Can't offer anything but a wild guess.

Nice Bass either way.

Congrats

A-Jay

[NHBull]

From this angle, I would say at least 2.8. ?

 

Nice fish, thanks  for sharing

[Angry John]

Wild guess are fun.  I would give you five as a give or take number but who really knows.  Health has the largest factor in how much i weighs.  Caught some 20" frame fish that were 5 and some that were 3 depending on the time of year and how good the food supply is.  Now that it is the peak of summer should have been a good time considering they are at full power.

[FishDewd]

10 pounder for sure!

 

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Actually I have to agree, from the angle I couldn't make a decent guess lol. But nice bass all the same!

[TnRiver46]

5-6.5? “How Big an ol boy are ya?” -Roy d Mercer 

[Catt]

Hawg!  ?

[MichaelCopeland]

Hard to really tell from the angle. I'm guessing at least 4.5lbs. Could be as much as 5.5lbs or better. I always keep a scale handy. You never know when you might catch a new PB or even a state record for that matter. Heckuva Big Un though! Congratulations on your PB! ?

[Black Hawk Basser]

This is a decent chart for estimating largemouth weight, relative to length.  I don't have a scale nor plan to own one so I use this to get a ballpark estimate.

[Darren.]

Welcome aboard and congrats.

 

Looks like a healthy, hefty bass, but impossible to tell her

weight. Best I can guess is somewhere betw. 4-6 pounds.

 

Here's another handy length guide. I read somewhere that

these approximations differ based on what part of the US

you live in.

 

[burrows]

Solid 5 could be heavier or just under but judging from the picture I would call it a 5...

nice catch!

[JustJames]

Same weight as EGbassing's fish or maybe same fish.

[Russ E]

nice fish. 

I suggest carrying a scale or tape measure. I carry both.

from my own experience, length of bass alone is not very accurate.

to get an relatively accurate weight without a scale, you need a girth measurement also.

then use a calculator like this one. there are several others on the net.

https://www.garden-island.com/bass-weight-formula-calculator.htm

 

 

in the last year I have caught: (these were all weighed and measured). 

1: a  21 inch long 16 inch girth smallmouth that only weighed 4lb 7oz. 

2: a  22 inch long 18 inch girth largemouth that weighed 6lb 4oz. .

3: a 22.5 inch long 19 inch girth largemouth that weighed 7lb.11oz.

 

the 22 inch largemouth was the only fish that a length only chart was close.

[slonezp]

1,000,000lbs

[12poundbass]

20 minutes ago, slonezp said:

1,000,000lbs

 

[NorthwestBasser]

I wouldn't rely on length/girth conversions. They may get you somewhat close... Sometimes. But I'm here to tell you depending on where you're fishing they can be highly inaccurate. Here in the PNW our bass are short and fat. My brother in law and I have weighed multiple fish on separate scales and then used conversion charts and "calculators" to see if there was a difference. Not once was the conversion accurate and a couple times was nearly a pound off + or -. Both scales were within .003+/- everytime. 

 

As for the fish in the pic, wild guess only... over 5. 

[Bankbeater]

If you can fit your fist in it's mouth then it's a hawg.

[the reel ess]

There's really no weigh (pun intended) of knowing. I caught a new PB Saturday. My previous was 6.75, a long thin fish with no gut. Saturday I caught what I thought was going to shatter that PB by more than a pound. It had monstrous bug eyes and a gut that looked like it ate two softballs. I was so excited my hands were shaking. It was only 6.92 lbs. Still a PB, but still not even 7 lbs. No pic because i didn't have my phone and I didn't want to kill the fish transporting it. I was kayaking, so no livewell. Had I stopped fishing then to go get a phone I would have missed the 5.2 pounder I caught 20 minutes later. The 6.92 lb looked twice the size of the 5.2 lb. My best day size-wise in...well, forever.

 

On a side note, my wife said "Why didn't you call me? I would have brought you your phone or a camera. Oh, never mind." LOL.

 

Nice fish and I'm guessing over 8, less than 10. That's the best i can do.

[juandi824]

On 8/11/2018 at 8:57 PM, TnRiver46 said:

5-6.5? “How Big an ol boy are ya?” -Roy d Mercer 

Haha I’m a big dude 6’2” 250lbs...

 

Lesson learned scale in the boat always..