Trevor Sawyer
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Hi Lads (and Lasses?),
Although I usually view (and occasionally post on) the Coarse thread, I knew that you experts on the carp thread would be my best chance of a sensible answer to my question...
For some species of fish (especially typical cylindrical fish like chub etc), there is a formula for working out a ROUGH idea of the weight of a fish from it's length and girth measurements. Obviously for carp, this is more difficult as they are sometimes almost spherical! ;O). Do any carp anglers routinely take length and girth measurements of their better fish and if so, could anyone give me a ball-park weight for a fish of 45" long by 39" in girth.
Maybe anglers used to French carp waters would be more likely to catch such bulky fish, but do our own bigger carp occasionally reach these sort of dimensions. Any ideas anyway? PS: Before anyone asks, I don't know where the fish mentioned above was caught, but assume it is was a foreign fish. I would just be interested in knowing what it could have weighed.
Cheers,
Trev
Although I usually view (and occasionally post on) the Coarse thread, I knew that you experts on the carp thread would be my best chance of a sensible answer to my question...
For some species of fish (especially typical cylindrical fish like chub etc), there is a formula for working out a ROUGH idea of the weight of a fish from it's length and girth measurements. Obviously for carp, this is more difficult as they are sometimes almost spherical! ;O). Do any carp anglers routinely take length and girth measurements of their better fish and if so, could anyone give me a ball-park weight for a fish of 45" long by 39" in girth.
Maybe anglers used to French carp waters would be more likely to catch such bulky fish, but do our own bigger carp occasionally reach these sort of dimensions. Any ideas anyway? PS: Before anyone asks, I don't know where the fish mentioned above was caught, but assume it is was a foreign fish. I would just be interested in knowing what it could have weighed.
Cheers,
Trev