Back in Missouri, first smallmouth fishing in more than 4 months...

[Mitch f]

Alright, you brastiges talked me into it.  I’m buying an iPhone 12 Pro with Lidar technology and am going to invent a fish scanning app. You can already scan to 1/32” accuracy with that phone I’ve heard. If you could measure it laying an a trough, you could have a permanent record of your catch. The “measuring board” will have a scale bar traceable to the national institute of standards. The results will be done in about 5-10 seconds and the fish can be back in the water in no time. Bet someone will come up with one! 

[snagged in outlet 3]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

The guy that complains about tournaments on rivers is upset because he wants the fish kept out of the water longer, and rolled around on the deck of the boat repeatedly, for an accurate measurement.

Got it. 🙄👍

Let him continue.  I like it..

[Basfis]

On the iPhone SE too

Standard 8 1/2” by 11” paper  

 

[fishinwrench]

Well how cool is that?  

Does Android have an app like that?

[Devan S.]

Quick question......
 

Is the game wardens tape the golden rule?

[Basfis]

5 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

Quick question......
 

Is the game wardens tape the golden rule?

Not without a calibration sticker...

[Greasy B]

26 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

Alright, you brastiges talked me into it.  I’m buying an iPhone 12 Pro with Lidar technology and am going to invent a fish scanning app. You can already scan to 1/32” accuracy with that phone I’ve heard. If you could measure it laying an a trough, you could have a permanent record of your catch. The “measuring board” will have a scale bar traceable to the national institute of standards. The results will be done in about 5-10 seconds and the fish can be back in the water in no time. Bet someone will come up with one! 

Now that would be a good use of Metrology.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Talk to @JestersHK, I believe he and Phil started working on such an app.  They may have some ground work already set up.  

[Al Agnew]

Don't really care whether people believe me or not.  Don't really care whether the fish is 19 1/8th or 18 7/8ths.  I'll call it a 19.  I measure big fish from the canoe with my paddle blade, which has magic marker marks at the base of the blade for 18 and 20 inches from the end of the blade.  Try to measure them by putting the closed mouth even with the end of the blade, look at where the closed tail lobes come to compared to my marks.  Accurate?  Probably within 1/8th inch, certainly within 1/4th inch.  What does it matter whether the fish is 17 3/4ths plus or 18?  Doesn't to me.  I ain't keeping score.  Only reason I measure is to satisfy my own curiosity.  Half the time I don't report my trips.  If I catch one that looks REALLY big, I'm gonna measure it carefully, but 19 inches isn't really big.

Heck, I'm really good with Photoshop...I could take pictures of my fish and then make them bigger in Photoshop before posting the pics, complete with measuring board.  

So let me get this straight...does the plain old Iphone 12 I just got do the scan thing?  Or does it have to be the Pro?

 

[Devan S.]

8 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

Don't really care whether people believe me or not.  Don't really care whether the fish is 19 1/8th or 18 7/8ths.  I'll call it a 19.  I measure big fish from the canoe with my paddle blade, which has magic marker marks at the base of the blade for 18 and 20 inches from the end of the blade.  Try to measure them by putting the closed mouth even with the end of the blade, look at where the closed tail lobes come to compared to my marks.  Accurate?  Probably within 1/8th inch, certainly within 1/4th inch.  What does it matter whether the fish is 17 3/4ths plus or 18?  Doesn't to me.  I ain't keeping score.  Only reason I measure is to satisfy my own curiosity.  Half the time I don't report my trips.  If I catch one that looks REALLY big, I'm gonna measure it carefully, but 19 inches isn't really big.

Heck, I'm really good with Photoshop...I could take pictures of my fish and then make them bigger in Photoshop before posting the pics, complete with measuring board.  

So let me get this straight...does the plain old Iphone 12 I just got do the scan thing?  Or does it have to be the Pro?

 

Funny story....because I think it fits here. The guy I fish with the most....when we started running to Taney and doing the night deal in September we decided we needed a simple way to get ball park measurements of fish to compare to each other(in the dark within a reasonable time).

We have the same net and we marked from the end down the handle 18", 20" 22", 24", and 26". We told each other what we were doing and did it separately but would meet down at outlet 2 and fish in the dark. 

After several fish and comparing "Size" we had come to the conclusion that something on our nets didn't add up. We laid them side by side and sure enough one was longer than the other. Immediately I was accused of stretching mine to cheat and add length. 

We're both engineers so the assumption was that someone was cheating. There was zero chance we made a mistake in measuring....After a bunch of checks from multiple tapes mine was certified as "good" and his well.....he screwed up and was 1" short on every fish he had measured for the last month.