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| Does anyone know where in the Madison WI area I can purchase a Dunwright Bump? How much do they go for?
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Location: minocqua, wi. | found mine on the side of the road .... |
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| call Dorn's and ask them, i'm pretty sure i've seen them there.
i think they're in the neighborhood of $35. great investment, i love mine. |
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Location: lansing, il | mike at mrg carries them see his link below! also i think most gander stores carry them!
http://www.mrgmuskies.com
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Thorne Bros. had them last time I was there. |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | I picked up a Dunwright Bump Board this summer.... and opted not to use it... until it could be modified.
The hinge on mine has the shaft on the measuring side of the board. Are you guys laying the fish on this? Is it marking them up? I plan to "reverse" the hinge so the shaft is on the back side of the board.... contacting the carpet rather than the fish.
Curious what you guys using them have experienced? Am I just crazy... or does the hinge need to be flipped upside down? |
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Location: 31 | Good call on the hinge deal JLong, thanks. I was going to pick one up and will be sure to reverse the hinge before using it.
Edited by Jerry Newman 9/20/2006 7:28 AM
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| weird? the dunwright board I have the hinge is on the bottom side and that end folds under...no hinge on top, only smooth surface to lay the fish on?
I think the one I got from TForcier and sold to Dan Okray was the same as mine? did they mess up and make some with the hinge on top? |
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Location: lansing, il | i got 2 of them both hinges are underneath. they are without a doubt the best way to measure a fish! |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | J,
The hinge is the least of my worries with them. My biggest problem is that they seem to be designed for left handed fish handling. I handle all of my fish with my right hand and when I do that I end up with the tail on the "bump" portion of the board. I may be too picky but I think the board needs to be rotated 180 degrees.
Am I nuts or does anyone else have this problem with the Dunwright boards? |
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| nwild - 9/20/2006 7:28 AM
J,
The hinge is the least of my worries with them. My biggest problem is that they seem to be designed for left handed fish handling. I handle all of my fish with my right hand and when I do that I end up with the tail on the "bump" portion of the board. I may be too picky but I think the board needs to be rotated 180 degrees.
Am I nuts or does anyone else have this problem with the Dunwright boards?
I agree Norm. This is the one problem I have with the boards.
My feeling though, is that I usually dont care to measure that accurately so "bumping" the tail is fine with me. |
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Location: 31 | Norm, I would have that same problem, thanks for the post. This may not prove anything though... might only prove we are just both nuts:) I had pretty much determined to buy one but now I think I'm back to making one myself again. It sure looks like a great product though, and anything made by Dunwright is quailty. |
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Location: lansing, il | you guys cant read #s upsidedown???? sheeeesh!
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| nwild - 9/20/2006 7:28 AM
J,
The hinge is the least of my worries with them. My biggest problem is that they seem to be designed for left handed fish handling. I handle all of my fish with my right hand and when I do that I end up with the tail on the "bump" portion of the board. I may be too picky but I think the board needs to be rotated 180 degrees.
Am I nuts or does anyone else have this problem with the Dunwright boards?
I completely agree with this as well. If they'd reverse this, I'd buy a new one in a heartbeat.
The Dunwright bump board I have currently has the hinge underneath as well. No hinge on top where we lay the fish.
This is a great tool. I love it and mine gets a lot of use. Just wish it was more for right handed measurements as well... |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Werid problems.
I have one, hinge on the bottom.
I am also right handed and use all the time with no problems.
How can a bump board be designed for right or left handed people?
I pick the fish up. Take a photo, lay the fish down on the bump board, take my hand off and out of her gill plate, hold her head still, pinch the tail, the the measurement is taken. Simply pick the fish back up, and release it.
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Location: Black Creek, WI | Hulbert...... do you really LET GO of the fish???? That's asking for trouble, in my opinion. I"m sure its working for you... as you handle a lot of fish.... but once I grab ahold of the jawbone and pull them out of the net.... I never let go until they are BACK IN THE WATER. Last thing I want is a big fish floppin' around in the bottom of my boat.
I understand the left vs. right handed issue of the Dunwright board. The "side panel" is what designates it as a "lefty". If they could remove the side panel... the board would become universal (right and left handed holds would work).
I like the Dunwright product as I like that it is PLASTIC and won't rot or warp.... and am really glad to hear the hinge is not an issue (mine must have been a fluke... or early model?).
For those that want to make their own... here is a picture of mine and DanW's. On Dan's... I'd put the angle supports/brackets used to hold the "bump" in place on the bottom of the board where they cannot contact the fish. Dan's recessed metal ruler looks nicer than my cheesy Sharpie Pen lines/marks.... but I like the varnished OAK wood grain of mine better (ha ha).
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | yes I let the fish go.
Never any problems.
Simply lay it on the bump board, slip your hand out of the gills and measure.
Pick the fish back up and let her go.
No problem what so ever. Over 200 fish on the bump board, and never a problem. |
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| I have the Dunwright board but after a guide trip or two with Chad Cain and seeing how he does it , i'm changing my ways. He has a piece of pvc pipe about one inch in diameter with slots cut in it marked every half inch or so. He lays that thing down in the big frabill and runs the ends through the hole in the meshing right beside an outstretched fish. Its fairly accurate with two people doing it and very easy on the fish which should be the main consideration. After seeing that method , i have a hard time laying the fish down on a board now, allthough the dunwright board is probably the best alternative if a board has to be used.
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| Fairly accurate are the key words there, if you are going to even measure something, why not do it accurately? If you are fine with measuring a 49" at 50" then running around telling everyone you know you got a 50", registering it as 50", posting pics of it at 50", but in reality it was 49", well that's fine, but I don't get that way of measuring. It is not accurate. A WET dunwright does not harm the fish. |
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| Musky danno - 9/20/2006 10:59 AM
I have the Dunwright board but after a guide trip or two with Chad Cain and seeing how he does it , i'm changing my ways. He has a piece of pvc pipe about one inch in diameter with slots cut in it marked every half inch or so.
Dan Burrow
Here ya go...
http://www.thornebros.com/muskie/releasetools/release_BPproducts.ht... |
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Location: Bemidji | It doesn't seem right for someone to catch a 50in class fish then use a measuring stick to get a "close" measurement and call it 52X25 when it would have measured 50 1/2in on a bumpboard. Bumpboards provide the fishermen with an accurate length measurement that can't be disputed. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I would agree Kevin..now some people..even my friends have labeled me "hardcore"..or maybe even a bit "anal" or a few other choice words, for some reason I dont know why?  but I guess the point of measuring something is to know the size right? if you don't care to be accurate, why measure at all? I mean most of us can tell a 44"er when we see it in the water or in the net without measuring at all, so why measure? are you going to take it out of the net for a picture? if you do, and you want to know the size, why not put it on a bumpboard and know for sure what it was...all of us don't have the "gift" Bobby M. does do we?
not to knock those that don't measure..not at all..the ones that do measure but measure innaccurately then go running around telling everyone what they caught or registering it in contests or maybe "witness tournaments" but really the fish wasn't that big..that gets under my skin...if you don't care to measure, great, that is completey your prerogative..but for those of us who like to know and be accurate..why not get it right? just my 2 cents...
I know this is a bit off the original topic of the post..but others have brought it up and I thought it would be an interesting debate...no mud slinging involved..just food for thought
oh and where have you been hiding John "the Thurkinator" Thurk!?!?
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| How did we get to "if we use a stick our measurement of a potential 50 is false"?Yeah , i guess if thats all that mattered to you its fine but when the fish is close to 50 your conventional wisdom tells you to throw it on the board, but if not why not use a stick? I hear alot of preaching about keeping the fish in the water and doing everything for the fishes well being and then lets throw it on a board to make sure its deadly accurate and our ego is in check. You'd be surprised how accurate a stick kept flat along the fishes side is if two people are manhandling it. I can tell you if you do it right your not going to be more than a quarter inch off as long as you arent pinching the tail anyway, especially in a huge net where they can lay totally horizontal.(and if it isnt windy of course) Its obvious a wet board is not going to hurt the fish ,but we are talking time out of the water here and less time means better chance of swimming away. She comes in at 50 on the stick you put it on the board to make sure , no big deal. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Musky Danno, not saying that a floating stick is always inaccurate..i'm just saying there is alot of room for error..you are saying that 2 guys do the measuring get it close..well I've witnessed people measuring fish with only one person doing the measuring..how can that be accurate? they couldn't even see the tip of the fish and the stick to know if it was even aligned..
yes, 2 guys holding a fish horizontally in the water with floating stick probably is within a 1/2 inch if done right..but with so much room for error why not do it the right way? you are taking the time to take an out of the water pic right? what is a few more seconds going to hurt..if you don't take it out of the water for a pic, by all means do the best you can to measure it...it's not about my ego, or your ego, it's about calling a fish what it is...not what someone sorta half *ss measured it to be...a great fish is a great fish, whether it's 49.5 or 50...why not just call it what it really was? so much room for stretching the size..that is where egos come into play...not the other way around...
I wasn't trying to get into a heated debate..just a discussion about measuring...not trying to get anyone riled up about it as it seems I have in your post...
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| Brad,
I have not been hiding at all. Do alot of reading on this board but haven't posted much. Now on the subject of Dunwright Bump Boards- I called around and found one at Dorn Northgate. Stupid of me, I did not reserve it. By the time I got there at lunch today it was already reserved by the manufacturer of the BS Willy- who came in ten minutes after me to pick it up. Paul at Dorn said it had been sitting there for months without a sale... And then two calls in one day. So I am still without a bump board. Anybody know a place that has one on the shelf in the Madison area:) How about Appleton/Green Bay/ Shawano area as I will be there this weekend?
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Location: Contrarian Island | That dang Brad Schultz! Bump Board stealer! I'll get him for ya John..good to hear you are alive and well...
Did you call Dorn on Midvale?
Good luck finding one!
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| No , i'm with you,and see exactly what your saying its just that when you guys talk about the stick its a general consensus that its inaccurate , which is like saying all muskies are exactly the same color. Its all in how you use it. My wife and I caught two fish while i was out on that trip that measured 49-1/2 and 49, neither have we ever called a 50. If i thought there could have been a chance of error over a half inch to the plus side, or if the stick showed just over 50 yeah maybe i would have asked for a bump measurement, but i was confident that we had them measured within a quarter inch of what that board would have said. Again, i own one of the boards and love it , but i dont see a need to measure every fish that is without a doubt under 50 , on the board if i dont have to. A few seconds to lay it on the board and a few seconds to take it off is still extra handling pic or not. |
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| Brad,
Dorn on Midvale doesn't have them and neither does D&S. Looks like I may need to order one and have it shipped. Good luck this fall!
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| bumpboard? stick? whatever.
they're both lightyears ahead of stretching a flexible tape alongside a fish that someone's holding.
if it's 35", measuring somewhere in the ballpark is good enough for me.
if it's a big fish, i need to KNOW, and that's for me, not for you.
i have more confidence knowing precisely when i put the fish on a bumpboard.
as a technique, i prefer putting it on the bumpboard first:
out of the net, onto the bumpboard, measure it.
this allows me to quickly transition to kneeling behind the board, lift the fish up horizontally, take the pic, back in the water. |
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Location: Madtown, WI | Give me a bump board!!!!!
Its strickly for me....for example....I got a 50 incher on eagle a couple weeks ago....I bumped her and did a double take to make sure I was looking at it right...right on 50. Well I compare the pics and the video of the 50 to the bigger one I got later in the trip and it makes me question the first fish....if I hadn't had a bump board and KNEW my measurement was solid, I would be questioning whether the fish was a 50 or not....does it matter...probably not....just would bother me is all...
Here is the bump board I use...I have stuck up this picture before but love the shot of Craig Eversols fattie on the board!!!
Cory
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | In my last rig I had a metal bump board on the floor. I would dump a mug/cup of water on it, slide the fish down, take a very quick measure, then chuck the fish back in (I like to THROW the muskie as far as I can, gives them a better feeling of freedom). My new boat doesnt have this little feature, I am too cheap to buy one, too lazy to make a stick that will then take up alot of room, and I dont want to mess with a fold up dealio like the dunwright thing. I did buy a cloth measuring tape, that now lives under my console unused.
I figure when I catch a really nice one, I might bring the tape out. I might not. I really dont care what the exact inches are, and more than anything, I dont care what any of you think the exact inches are. I suppose it doesnt really matter to me, so what does it matter to any of you what I say a fish is? I can name by name about 10 people who have publically called me out to say I shouldnt have this job (as high paying and glamorous as it is) because I dont have "musky credibility" or whatever you want to call it because I either dont catch enough big fish, or the fish I catch arent as big as I said they were. A few have been pretty nasty about it, too. The best of those is when those guys then come back here to advertise their businesses for free on MuskieFIRST. Ha, you make me laugh.
If I catch one that will become a replica, I suppose the tape will come out, or if someone in my boat wants a measure of a fish, I'll bring it out. Til then, my fish live on in the crappy pics I always seem to have taken of my fish, with my crappy hold that is always close to my body (it used to be fun to drop them, but the humor has worn off, so now I hold'em tight and close, no glory poses for this kid) and you can all say my fish arent whatever I say they are.
But thats just me, and to each his own. Hey, I wear goofy assed $90 sandals that make my feet look like they have tribal tatoos on them, but thats just me.
I did catch a 10"er on Saturday, that was cool.
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Location: The desert | I dont catch fish, so therefore I dont need these "measuring" devices.
Actually, I fish out of other peoples boats for now so I just use what they have. If I'm alone I'll take an "ocular estimate" or I'll lay the rod down and scratch a little mark in it where the fish ended up at. This can be done easily with the fish lying in the water. Now you could say how do I remember where the mark is? Make it a distinct mark, just dont cut your rod in half, thats bad!
Usually though, I'm just happy to tangle with them!
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Location: Belleville, WI | Slamr - you caught a 10 incher?! Way cool! I bet it was beautiful! I've caught a few 15"ers this year that were gorgeous.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Slamr,
Not to worry, when Zach and I launched MuskieFIRST, I had a phone call from a 'prominent muskie individual' who stridently insisted I had no credentials and was not, therefore, qualified to open MuskieFIRST. Five years later, it STILL isn't ABOUT me or you, my friend, it's about the fish and all those who want to catch one. Some folks will never understand, and that, sir, is life in general. I, for one, am proud to have you working the late shift here, so to hell with detractors!!! Except for Ranger and Theedz, they bring balance to the Universe.
Bump boards are the way to measure safely and accurately, if one feels the need to. |
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Location: WI | I think the bump board is definately the way to go. Quickly unfold it, dip it in the drink, and with two people you can accurately measure a fish. I have used it either left handed or right handed, it doesn't sem to make a difference to me. The MMT uses these for their tournaments and I commend them for the way that they use them. In my opinion it is better than waiting for a judge boat or transport. (But that would get us wayyyyyy off topic)!!
Here is one of my favorite pics....
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