Redneckr3bel 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2015 Gt this nice 11 pounder this morning. Gave me a 15 minute fight on a 5 weight! It was the biggest one of the morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSzymczyk 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2015 17 LBS!!!! Dude, your hands must be the size of tennis racquets... I sincerely hope your career intentions are not to become a proctologist. It's a very nice channel cat, but 17 lbs, are you sure? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
artimus001 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2015 forced perspective; that covers the first fish tale. the second fish tale, well....... all i can say is that it is risky telling tall tales to a forum full of anglers, because they've all been told, lol. great looking fish though!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redneckr3bel 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2015 The pics really don't show the size of the fish good......guess I need have took a pic of the scale when I weigh them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSzymczyk 0 Report post Posted June 2, 2015 I'm not trying to be a downer, but keep it real. First thing I would do, is check your scale against a certified accurate scale, like at a supermarket. A picture of numbers on a scale doesn't mean the scale is true. Maybe get yourself a 10lb bag of potatoes, weigh it on a supermarket scale to see what it really weighs, then weigh it on your fish scale. As Artimus said, there are a lot of very experienced fishermen around here, who have weighed a lot of large fish. If I'm extremely generous with the width of your hand, and estimating a few curves of the fish, I put that fish at 28 inches give or take a couple. It has no belly to speak of, so again being reallly generous, I'd wager on 12 lbs maximum. Don't get me wrong, it is a super fly rod trophy. I've never caught one that size on a fly. But I've caught plenty of them on other things. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
