My Biggest Bass So Far.

[jay bird]

Fished last night out of Eagle Rock and had this one right at dark. This is my biggest bass and did not have a scale in the boat. She was almost 25 inches long and a quick girth was 16.5 to 17 inches. Let her take a trip in the livewell to recover for an hour then released with no problems. Hardest fighting bass I have ever had on the end of my line. Wish I had a scale, but I would guess 7.5#s-8#s. I have had a couple 6-6.5#s with scale and this one dwarfed them. Not the best picture.

[Gone Fishing]

That's a nice fish for sure.

[Quillback]

I caught a bass this winter with almost the same dimensions, it weighed 9.2 according to my scale. Here's an online fish calculator, that gives an estimate of 9.8 for a fish that's 25 long and 16 girth. I think you may have underestimated. Heck of a fish by any measure!

http://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/fishcalculator.html

[rps]

Very Nice!

[edwin]

great catch!

[RSBreth]

great catch!

That's the only bad thing when you catch a nice one in the dark - pretty hard to get a good picture. Nice Bass!

[Bill Babler]

I caught a bass this winter with almost the same dimensions, it weighed 9.2 according to my scale. Here's an online fish calculator, that gives an estimate of 9.8 for a fish that's 25 long and 16 girth. I think you may have underestimated. Heck of a fish by any measure!

http://www.bassresou...calculator.html

That is a wonderful fish reguardless of Wt.

Quill, I have tried that out on all our Black Bass Species--Jaws,K's and LM and it is not even remotely close. It is so far off that you really don't even have an idea. I have tried it againt a Cull/Rite that is very accurate and the formula is both over and under. It is really off on Jaws as they are long and wide and usually very light. It had my 6.3 pound Jaw, weighing about 9 pounds. It had the bass I caught a couple of months ago, weighing 13.34. See what it says about a 16 in K. It will not be as close as a pound. Would be great if there were indeed a way to just measure the fish and determine the weight. Unfortunatly we ain't seen it yet.

Good Luck

[Quillback]

Yep, I did not mean to imply it was something you could use to get an exact weight, I have found it to be close however, but that's only using largemouth. And it can get you in the ballpark if you ain't got nothing to weight your fish . State of OK wildlife department keeps lake records for largest fish, just saw where a fellow caught an 11.4 lb. bass out of Lake Holdenville. Length 23.5, girth 20.5, ran it through the calculator and the calc said 11.09, so it was in the ball park.

[Bill Babler]

Yep, I did not mean to imply it was something you could use to get an exact weight, I have found it to be close however, but that's only using largemouth. And it can get you in the ballpark if you ain't got nothing to weight your fish . State of OK wildlife department keeps lake records for largest fish, just saw where a fellow caught an 11.4 lb. bass out of Lake Holdenville. Length 23.5, girth 20.5, ran it through the calculator and the calc said 11.09, so it was in the ball park.

Some of those Char, that Phil and I were catchng in Alaska last year, had a length of 36 inches and a girth of 28 inches. I would have loved to have seen a LM with a girth of over 20 inches. What a pig.

[jay bird]

Thanks guys, I wish I could have had a good scale, but what are u going to do. All i know is that I fished friday and Saturday and caught a lot of fish, nothing over 17inches and they all looked like babies to that one.