Guess the weight?

[Keith M]

At the start of the river season I regularly tend to over estimate my barbel which is why I have to weigh most of them at the start of the season; and size for size they just seem to fight a lot harder than the Carp that I’d recently had from stillwaters plus they just look like muscle bound torpedos.

Keith

 

[Mark Wintle]

On one of my local ponds where the best roach I've ever seen/caught is 1-6 I once had an excited angler come round to say his mate had caught a '2lb roach'. As such a fish would easily be a venue record I traipsed round the pond with my scales to carefully weigh a 1-1 RUDD!

 

[thecrow]

I tried a guess your weight machine it said "one at a time please"

I'll get my coat shall I ?

 

[S-Kippy]

I tried a guess your weight machine it said "one at a time please"

I'll get my coat shall I ?

Yes....I think you probably should !

Similar to Mark's story I once walked a very long way on the River Kennet in order to see a brace of 3lb roach....which both turned out to be chub and I doubt either would have made 2-8 !

 

[barbelboi]

I'd go for a combination of roach and also with Skip on the 'down to the individual angler rather than the species'.

 

[Keith M]

After a stocking of Roach from a trout fishery a few years ago at our estate lake, I had some nice Roach; the three largest of which were between 1lb 4oz and 1lb 12oz; but within a day or two our club secretary had told everyone he’d met that I had caught at least 5 Roach of over 2lb.

The secretary who’s now deceased was well known for his exaggerating but was a great guy nonetheless as long as you took everything he said with a pinch of salt.

Keith

 

[Alan Tyler]

As a lad I saw some pound and pound-and-a-half roach weighed (sadly, I had no part in their capture), so when a man came round asking all and sundry if they had a spring balance, because he'd just caught a roach that might be three pounds, I dug out my Little Samson four-pounds scale and we set off to weigh Leviathan. "Pound and a half", I thought, at first sight, and the scales confirmed this. The poor chap looked crestfallen and puzzled, saying "It looked much bigger than the two-pounder I caught last week!"

Gudgeon - at about six inches, they seem to change from a roughly triangular cross-section to an almost square one; this should mean that beyond six inches they will get much heavier for a relatively small increase in length. It wouldn't surprise me if the record was only about eight inches long - does anyone know?

 

[ian g]

For me it has to be perch , they must be hollow as really big looking fish weigh so light. Another thing with weighing fish is how many people you see weighing a fish in a landing net then forgetting to deduct the weight of the net . To be fair they're only kidding themselves.

 

[The bad one]

Any fish that starts with any letter of the alphabet from A – Z.

 

[dicky123]

Did see a wonderful picture of a 5lb 11oz Perch last week. It looked the weight easy, wonderful fish from the River Derwent.

 

[silvers]

A foulhooked one!
I had a decent barbel last November that was hooked in the pectoral ..... I thought it would go over 11, just an ounce over 10.
I’ve been matchfishing for donkey’s years, so am pretty confident that I usually underestimate rather than over (just to avoid the inevitable **** taking)!!!
I would agree that decent perch look huge for their weight.

 

[maggot_dangler]

For me it's got to be Carp.

I very seldom carry scales unless i am going somewhere that has an reputation for unuseually large fish .

Hence when i fish certain parts of the local canal by me i take the scales i have had wieghed on the scales rudd to 3lb9oz but normally it is more of an guestimate not normally too far out if i do check if i say around 1lb then it is within an ounce or four so am quite happy to report as i do and on the low side as a habit ..


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