A bass length/weight estimation calculator

[BrendanD]

It drives me nuts when i see some guy holding a 150 gram fish and calling it half a kilo or even a half kilo bass and calling it a kilo. It happens a lot. I can understand getting a little excited and being out a little but it gets ridiculous sometimes.

Instead of just complaining I'm linking a site with reasonably accurate estimations. Unfortunately they are imperial so you will have to convert to metric yourself. Also keep in mind they aren't talking penis inches where guys insist the 5.5 inches they are really packing are actually 8.5. 12 inches is roughly the same length as a 30cm ruler. (a 30cm fish is most likely just under half a kilo by the way.)

Here it is : http://www.windycityfishing.com/bass_conversion_chart.htm

 

[Koos Bass]

I beg to differ with the whole ruler rule.

I caught a bass that gave me a fight and a half  but when it came out it looked like just under a kilo, put it on the scale and to my surprise pulled it to 1.44Kg.

a week later at another dam (same water system)  my friend got a nice looking fish and we guessed perhaps closer to the 1.8Kg mark, put it on the scale and got a disappointing 1.27Kg reading.

I don’t know if it is diets, structure and how hard they work for food that makes  them so different

The 1.27Kg fish looks like a model (tall and slender) compared to the body builder of 1.44 on the photo

But yes, i hate those (monsters) guessed to be +- 3KG's and you can see that the monster is slightly bigger than a keeper.

Best advice "[glow=red]Get a Scale[/glow]"

 

[BigBass]

Agreed Koos Bass! A good digital scale (or "de-liar") is the only way to go - saves endless debate, speculation and frustration!

Those fish length/ girth to compute weight formulas generally do not work well with most species, especially the big momma Bass with big bellies which tend to throw the formulas (based on more "normally" structured Bass) for a loop ...

So, get a scale!

 

[prokayak]

check out this 2.8kg MONSTER........::hapi::lol:1

Think the scale was broken, didn't want to give a reading

 

[prokayak]

I agree that the calculater is not exact, but at least it is a better estimate than my 2.8 kg