5lbs Brookie

[Alex Bass Man]

It dose apply to bass, just take the fish in that particular season and it works out. Example: If you go fishing in July and catch a 2.5 lbs bass that is 19" and i catch a 19" bass same body of water in the same day and i say its 5 lbs. Guess who is full of it. Just like Woody's two brookie examples. He knows that an 18" out of the shrimp fed lake is around 5 lbs. Then Pikeattack comes along and catches a 15" out of the same lake claiming it to be 5 lbs. ( not picking on you pikeattack just using you as an example). Its all about anglers guessing and making up stories that drives me crazy, like guys on Nip catching 3 lbs walleyes all day long that are only 14".

I don't guess on the size of a fish anyways. I always have a scale with me. If I don't I will estimate if need be but general don't. Weight can't not be determined by length alone. You have all factors to look at. Another thing I should have also said that what determines growth which also affect weight in bass is water temperatures.

The longer the water stays in the 70 deg range the larger and heavier the bass will get as this is the optimum temp range bass grow and feed in heavy in. This also triggers their spawning.

[Roe+]

Bass can vary, to me it depends on the lake and food supply. I've caught 5 lb smallies ie. 20" long, 14" girth that weighed 5 lb. 2 oz. on a commercial scale. I caught one out of the same lake at 21" long, 14 " girth that I guesstimated at 5 lbs as well. I caught another smallie out of a different that was 19" long, but only weighed in at 3.5 lbs. on a commercial scale I never measured the girth on that one, but it was less than the previous fish mentioned.. I have digital fish scale that my daughter got me as a present (Rapala) but I don't trust it as a spring is never accurate in all ranges because the spring tension is not consistent throughout the distance of travel (proven scientific fact) they are proned to having stiffer sections. Some measure more accurately at the high while others are better at the low end and unless you do a calibration test, there is no way of knowing. When it told me that a 19.5" largemouth with a 12" girth was 2.5 lbs. I became suspicious.

With, girth makes all of the difference. I've had 18" bass weighed and if they are filled out will go around 3 lb., 19" -20" 4lb, 20"-21" 5lb. but this is all girth dependent. It does however give you a starting point. These are smallies I'm talking about. I'm sure a guy like Woody has noticed similar patterns in speckles.

The lake where my cottage is contains mostly largemouth, with some smallmouth. I'm more used to smallmouth, but am by no means new to largemouth. I'm just wondering if the basic assumptions I've made above for smallmouth would hold for largemouth?

Roe+

[Pat32rf]

I always feel that largies weigh more than a allies of the same length, the smallies just get more air.
i have a buddy who always catches 3 lb specks. The ones he looses break his 6 lb line so they must be over six.....

[cantcatchacold]

Lol should I get in on this

[cantcatchacold]

Well thanks Woody, i worked a MNR contact out of Dorion and would LOVE to return someday, had a blast on the Nipigon, the Wolf and cypress. Working at the hatchery put me in touch with alot of hot spots.

Best speck fishing anywhere.

And I agree with your original post about sizes. Most specks down this way at least always get a few pounds added to the story. There's an old pic on here of one woody and I got the fillets where 24 inches no head and tail and that fish was only about 8 lbs.

[LeavonP]

for an experienced brook trout fishermen you would be terribly off, the one in the pic that reads 17 inches is one of those fish from the sink pic, except on a different side, that is why it looks different, the sink is 26" in length, ask anyone who has it, or search online for yourself, the pond i fish in was stocked by the university of toronto back in 2003 with 4 pound brook trout for research experiments, they abandoned it a few years ago and i fish it now, there used to be no fishing signs posted everywhere before, there is not much left in there, i have overfished it a bit, you owe me a fly in trip, when you gonna pay up? i proved that these fish were 4+ pounder back in the summer and i have friends who fish there too, even a couple forum embers that i told the spots too, who promised to keep their lips sealed.

I imagine woody was talking about the smaller fish in that picture.

[sidekick10121]

This girl was a monster and personal best. She inhaled a 4" popper and you can see my hand in her mouth. She was 26" and 6.5 lbs post spawn. I didn't get a girth because I wanted to get er back in the water. She was tired. And it was a Georgian bay bass

[sidekick10121]

I wasn't holding these rite to show the size. They were from a local tourney last year. The one on the left of the pic was 5.5 on the scale (didnt get a length) and the other was 4 something.

[Bo D]

Over the years I've fished from coast to coast chasing after that elusive Brook Trout Record that was caught by a DR James Cook back in 1912 that weighed in at over 14lbs. Fish do range in size and weight as per what Woody had said, but in and around the Haliburton area, normally a 19" fish will weigh very close to 4lbs. My personal best out of the Haliburton Highlands area was 8 1/4 lbs and was 27 1/2" in length. It did have some shoulders on it...

[intothedeep]

Over the years I've fished from coast to coast chasing after that elusive Brook Trout Record that was caught by a DR James Cook back in 1912 that weighed in at over 14lbs. Fish do range in size and weight as per what Woody had said, but in and around the Haliburton area, normally a 19" fish will weigh very close to 4lbs. My personal best out of the Haliburton Highlands area was 8 1/4 lbs and was 27 1/2" in length. It did have some shoulders on it...

That is almost unheard of its so big... Biggest I've heard of is 6 in the highlands, nice fish