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Posts: 8865 | I actually figured out a way to go back and measure from some of my pictures... First thing I did was look carefully at the picture for something I could use as a reference. Now I won't say how big (small) this fish was, but it would be interesting to see what you guys come up with here. Take a look at the picture. I measured the length of my third finger from the knuckle to the tip. (4-1/2") Since it's pretty well straight and on the same plane as the fish, it's pretty easy to use that as a reference point. Drawing a line from the bottom jaw down the center of the fish to the end of where the tail is gave me a measurement that I thing was dead on. (actually, I work in a program where you can scale images to fit a known dimension, like my finger being 4.5", so all I had to do was draw a line down the center of the fish and measure the line....) Now on a big fish, I can see there being room for error just eyeballing it, but the way I was holding this fish makes me believe the measure ment I came up with was probably within 1/4" Somebody post a picture like mine or slim's where you've got a finger extended straight, and give me an accurate measurement of that particular finger, I want to try this on a fish that I have no idea how big it is... Jeff Edited by esoxaddict 7/21/2005 7:08 PM Attachments ----------------  how big was it.jpg (36KB - 183 downloads) | ||
| Trophymuskie |
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Posts: 1430 Location: Eastern Ontario | Here is one we got a few days ago, why would I want to try and use a hold to make this fish look bigger. Just a straigh horizontal hold is ever needed, find me someone to tell me that fish isn't as long as I say it is. My guess is it may even be longer but I am at the head of the fish with the tape and the client is at the tail end and getting the final number so this normaly results in the client not pinching the tail correctly and getting the full lenght of the fish. Edited by Trophymuskie 7/23/2005 8:38 AM Attachments ---------------- 07-21-2005JC53.5X20.5Zz.jpg (40KB - 182 downloads) | ||
| Donnie3737 |
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| Eguddal, I wish it was mid 50's....it had a 26.75" girth!! I couldn't imagine if it was mid 50's how heavy it would be. It was a HEAVY fish, but only 53".....it was the most incredible fight of my life. Took a few minutes to revive her. So, my buddie's snapped some photo's. It was very, very cool. Donnie  | |||
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