Lord Paul of Sheffield
Well-known member
Fishing on Saturday I saw a guy catch a carp that I would have said to be about 7lb - the chap shouted his mate over and said that it was easy an 8lber. I thought I must have miss judged the weight as these were to experience looking anglers. AS I was packing up the other chap caught a carp and his mate netted it for him. As I stood chatting to them they declared the carp to be "easy a double", the fish looked like it might scrape 9lb to me.
After the carp was put back I chatted to the two guys for about another 5 minutes and one of them said how this was a great water to fish, his mate had had a 7lb perch out last summer!!
Well at that point I decided that these 2 guys obviously either used Spiders scales or tended to guess the weights wrong.
What's the worst case of guessing a fish's weight you seen?