Digital fish scales

[Crankhead]

I've got a Cabelas Grip & Weigh that I use to weigh the bass I catch. But I don't think it's all that accurate. I've been looking at Rapala & Berkley digital scales. I've looked at Cabelas and they have the digital scales priced from $29 & up. I'd like to hear suggestions as to what others have bought & used.

[Vyron]

I highly recommend XTOOLS

[Jig Man]

I tried several different ones and couldn't get consistent readings from any of them so I gave up on digital and bought the Boga Grip.

[Fishing Doug]

I highly recommend XTOOLS

X 2  accurate and easy to use.

[Josey Wales]

We bought a rapala digital scale, and didnt like it at all.  The fish had to be perfectly still all the time and it always seemed the fish were smaller then we thought (this is a common fisherman problem)  So we bought a digital scale from a supermarket meat dept, and found that the rapala scale was almost always a pound off.  Ive yet to buy another one for that reason.  I have considered the grip and weigh style that Roland Martin uses, but then again he also endorsed the helicopter lure.

*sigh*

[twors]

I watched Roland endrose a Boga Grip on one of his shows and he had a Berkley lip grip in his hand...LOL! I'd probably buy the X-Tool scale myself if I had the need for a new scale. The Boga grips sure are pretty but they only weigh in 1/4 pound increments. With that kind of resolution, my cheap 15 dollar lipper I bought at BPS does the same job.

[arthurspooner13]

I haven't had too much trouble with my Berkley.

I'm the type of guy who won't even weigh a bass unless it's pushing 4 lbs... and i live in Michigan.

[VA BassHound]

I have owned 2 different Berkley digital scales, and they were both junk.  I would weigh the same 5lb weight on different days and get a different reading each day, none of which were ever 5lbs.  A more accurate way of depicting the size of fish is measure the length and girth with a tape measure.  I try not to get caught up on the weight  of fish.  When someone tells me the weight of the fish they caught, I take it with a grain of salt, because unless there digital scales can be calibrated it will always give a unreliable reading.

[Marty]

When someone tells me the weight of the fish they caught, I take it with a grain of salt, because unless there digital scales can be calibrated it will always give a unreliable reading.

I have to disagree. Digital scales can be very accurate and they can also be junk. I've had both. I've also had accurate ones that went bad. Numerous times during every season I test my scales by weighing things that have already been weighed on a certified scale. So I feel confident in the weights and don't accept that they always give unreliable readings.

[.dsaavedra.]

i had a rapala 15 lb digital scale and that thing was a POS. no matter what the weight was that i weighed, it was always a half pound off.

so then i got a 50lb berkley digital scale for xmas, and it is dead on. i bought a bag of trailmix once and it had 1lb 12oz net wt. printed on the package, and when i weighed it on my berkley, it gave me exactly 1lb 12 oz thats pretty good for a $20 digital scale if you ask me.

[VA BassHound]

Marty, there is a reason why fish weights on hand held digital scales are not excepted for qualifying fish for state or world records.  That reason is that they are unreliable.

[JT Bagwell]

I highly recommend XTOOLS

I have this one too.

JT Bagwell

[Marty]

Marty, there is a reason why fish weights on hand held digital scales are not excepted for qualifying fish for state or world records.  That reason is that they are unreliable.

I wouldn't use them either for records. But perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough: I don't accept always unreliable. Individual scales can be very accurate and have that accuracy verified by testing and can yield reliable results, even if they aren't accepted for records.

If my scale tests accurate against certified scales on Monday-Wednesday-Friday, I think I can rely on its results on Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday.

[GitRDoneIke23]

I highly recommend XTOOLS

X 2 accurate and easy to use.

X3

8-)

[SteveF]

I will only use the Cul-M-Rite scales, as it can be certified as well.

Thanks.

Steve

[KU_Bassmaster.]

I have an XTools too and highly recommend it.  I check about every other week during the season.  Dead on in the three years I have had.

Plus it has some really "fun" features.