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Al Agnew

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20 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?

 

I’m hearing either the 12 Pro or the 12 Pro Max.  But the resolution isn’t that great yet.

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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6 hours 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! 

Mitch, Phil should have all my code from the previous work I did for the measuring app.  We were incorporating 4x4 tile which you laid next to the fish, or incorporated into your measuring board,  which was a big barcode. That set your base line and you placed draggers from nose to tail of the fish. 

It also date and time stamped the photo,  captured GPS coordinates which you could turn on and off, and uploaded the files to the cloud where they could be viewed in real time.   Goal was to use it for scoring Phil's length tournament. 

I'll get back to it one of these days, but life smashed me in the face and it kind of took a back burner... 

Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions. 

This was from an early build...

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7 hours 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?

 

Good enough for me. For about 30 years I had marks painted on my fly rod for my own measurements. I've had "between several and a good many" over the 18" mark, a few that were over the 19" mark and never a picture of even one. I quit using that rod a few years ago and haven't measured a fish since, no point in it because I am my only competition, my memories the only record needed.

Whenever I hear about fish measurement and weights being called into doubt, I'm always reminded of a story from my childhood; the gist of which, one angler was bragging to another about the twelve  pound bass caught in Deep Hole a few days ago, then the second angler told of fishing that hole two consecutive nights, losing a huge fish and knocking the coal-oil lantern into the creek at the same time, then the next night accidentally snagging the lantern and when it was reeled in it was still lit. After a moment, the first guy said "say, I'll knock five pounds off my bass if you'll blow out your lantern"  - I guess there's always room in a story for a lantern, but between me and myself it ain't necessary.

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8 hours ago, JestersHK said:

Mitch, Phil should have all my code from the previous work I did for the measuring app.  We were incorporating 4x4 tile which you laid next to the fish, or incorporated into your measuring board,  which was a big barcode. That set your base line and you placed draggers from nose to tail of the fish. 

It also date and time stamped the photo,  captured GPS coordinates which you could turn on and off, and uploaded the files to the cloud where they could be viewed in real time.   Goal was to use it for scoring Phil's length tournament. 

I'll get back to it one of these days, but life smashed me in the face and it kind of took a back burner... 

Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions. 

This was from an early build...

IMG_01691 (1).jpg

Thanks, but I was just kind of joking, I don’t have time to get involved in a project like this. 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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45 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Nobody has ever believed Al's measurements. Have Mitch measure your fish! He said this one was 19.75" and I thought it was no more than an 18.5". 

MSA Cover Shot.pdf 1.51 MB · 8 downloads

@Gavin@Al Agnew @Mitch f  and others.... Are you guys still members of MSA?  

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1 hour ago, Gavin said:

Nobody has ever believed Al's measurements. Have Mitch measure your fish! He said this one was 19.75" and I thought it was no more than an 18.5". 

MSA Cover Shot.pdf 1.51 MB · 12 downloads

I could’ve been off by an inch! 😂

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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