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Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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johnathonmharding
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Caught A 23 1/2" on houston county which is an over for us put her on the scale and only gave a measly 6 1/2, paper weight chart says 23 1/2" should weigh 8.31 give or take. But would it b that drastic of a weight gap?
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 01:04 AM
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 01:07 AM
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You need to push them up to where the mouth is closed. Just by the pic, it's looks like it would go about 22.25 which would be about 6.5 lb by your chart.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 01:15 AM
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johnathonmharding
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I measured proper weigh but couldnt hold it and take pic with one hand
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 03:24 AM
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BrandonF
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All depends on the fish & it's habitat. I've brought plenty 22" fish to the the weigh in on Georgetown weighing in the 5lb range. Had fish on Lake Austin (back when it had grass) short & fat. This one was 24" flat, 10.13lbs
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 03:33 AM
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That is a skinny fish. You get credit on paper for weight taken away on that pot-bellied 15" weighing 3+lb.
Northern strain tend to be lean and mean like your fish... Also, males tend to be lean and mean like your fish...
We had an over on Athens once that on paper was credited 10.25lbs. It actually weighed 6.75lbs, like yours!
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: BrandonF]
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02/06/18 03:33 AM
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All depends on the fish & it's habitat. I've brought plenty 22" fish to the the weigh in on Georgetown weighing in the 5lb range. Had fish on Lake Austin (back when it had grass) short & fat. This one was 24" flat, 10.13lbs Nice fish and cool pic.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: Dubee]
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02/06/18 03:52 AM
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Yes, they are. Some fish are fat, some are skinny. The chart doesn't measure that. That's why I like actually bringing fish to the scales.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 04:07 AM
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BrandonF
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All depends on the fish & it's habitat. I've brought plenty 22" fish to the the weigh in on Georgetown weighing in the 5lb range. Had fish on Lake Austin (back when it had grass) short & fat. This one was 24" flat, 10.13lbs Nice fish and cool pic. Thanks! We sure were blessed for a few years here.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 12:11 PM
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Lots of variables involved like time of year, lake, DNA, etc. But more times than not, the paper chart is on the high side.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 01:09 PM
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Brad R
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Paper guesstimates aren't a "joke," they are just averages.
For all the men on this forum who are 6 feet tall, there is an average weight but individuals will vary quite a lot. I suspect 15" bass don't deviate from the average nearly as much as 6' men do.
TPWD makes no claim that it will accurately reflect the LMB you catch.
There sample size was 3,178 fish and that isn't very many to cover fish from 10" to 30" measured incrementally every 1/8th of an inch.
My guess would be that it is more accurate at the lower lengths, a very rough statistic at the top end. How many 29" bass were weighed?
***What I think would be a cool statistic is for people to catch a bass, record what they "think" it weighs prior to weighing it, compare that to what it actually weighs on a scale. Some experienced anglers will be very accurate I suspect.
Brad
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 02:46 PM
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Paper guesstimates aren't a "joke," they are just averages.
For all the men on this forum who are 6 feet tall, there is an average weight but individuals will vary quite a lot. I suspect 15" bass don't deviate from the average nearly as much as 6' men do.
TPWD makes no claim that it will accurately reflect the LMB you catch.
There sample size was 3,178 fish and that isn't very many to cover fish from 10" to 30" measured incrementally every 1/8th of an inch.
My guess would be that it is more accurate at the lower lengths, a very rough statistic at the top end. How many 29" bass were weighed?
***What I think would be a cool statistic is for people to catch a bass, record what they "think" it weighs prior to weighing it, compare that to what it actually weighs on a scale. Some experienced anglers will be very accurate I suspect.
Brad Hey Brad, Great points. The regression analysis is not a joke. It's probably most accurate right around the median fish length. The 95% confidence intervals of regression lines/slopes are almost always the smallest near the median value and get wider the lower and higher you get (out at the tails). Here's an example below. But as you and others note there's a lot of variation among male and female bass, spawn versus late summer, etc. Heck if a fish eats a big meal right before you catch it that will almost certainly result in the paper chart/regression under estimating the bass's weight. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5789135/figure/fig9/AS:281291699310595@1444076575363/Figure-1-Linear-regression-analysis-95-confidence-interval-of-LM13LM09-ratio.png
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 02:50 PM
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Paper charts that do not incorporate girth are worthless unless the chart is specific to that water body. The charts that incorporate length and girth are more accurate.
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out" - Zachary Troy Schrah - a young man with vision far beyond his years.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: Dubee]
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02/06/18 04:12 PM
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should weigh 8.31 give or take ^^ ^^ This! Too many times, paper club members go out and say "I caught 30 lbs!" you see the pictures and its 18-22 lbs...
Thats my money fish Kris Winhold
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: johnathonmharding]
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02/06/18 04:42 PM
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Fayette County fish and paper weight charts can be pretty close.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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weighing fish or laying them on paper can hurt the fish. are there any tournament trails where you just get to guess the weight of your fish and throw it back and keep track of your best 5 based on your guestimaate? sorry to go off topic...just wondering
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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I measured proper weigh but couldnt hold it and take pic with one hand In this case I would take the paper weight and call it good!!
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I measured proper weigh but couldnt hold it and take pic with one hand In this case I would take the paper weight and call it good!! Huh? You'd take a paper weight you knew to be inaccurate over the weight measured on the scales?
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out" - Zachary Troy Schrah - a young man with vision far beyond his years.
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I measured proper weigh but couldnt hold it and take pic with one hand In this case I would take the paper weight and call it good!! Huh? You'd take a paper weight you knew to be inaccurate over the weight measured on the scales? You see the little Winkie Face emoji after my comment?? It was a joke Mahfouz. Take a pill.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/06/18 06:12 PM
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Paper charts that do not incorporate girth are worthless unless the chart is specific to that water body. The charts that incorporate length and girth are more accurate. ^^^^This Here's a formula for calculating the weight of a LMB using length and girth: length times girth squared divided by 1050. Or expressed another way, length x (girth x girth)/1050
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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I measured proper weigh but couldnt hold it and take pic with one hand In this case I would take the paper weight and call it good!! Huh? You'd take a paper weight you knew to be inaccurate over the weight measured on the scales? You see the little Winkie Face emoji after my comment?? It was a joke Mahfouz. Take a pill.
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out" - Zachary Troy Schrah - a young man with vision far beyond his years.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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weighing fish or laying them on paper can hurt the fish. are there any tournament trails where you just get to guess the weight of your fish and throw it back and keep track of your best 5 based on your guestimaate? sorry to go off topic...just wondering
I want to enter this tournament, but I want to weigh in last.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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02/07/18 01:12 AM
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fished squaw 2 years ago and there as a weigh in tournament your best 5 and our club had a paper tournament. I entered both. In the paper side of the tournament we had 26 lbs and on the weigh in side we had 21 lbs. We won both that day.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: Brad R]
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Paper guesstimates aren't a "joke," they are just averages.
For all the men on this forum who are 6 feet tall, there is an average weight but individuals will vary quite a lot. I suspect 15" bass don't deviate from the average nearly as much as 6' men do.
Brad Just an observation by being on the TFF for a while, the average weight of a TFF-six footer also varies considerably from a nonTFF 6 footer.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
[Re: coachallentca]
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02/07/18 10:05 PM
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fished squaw 2 years ago and there as a weigh in tournament your best 5 and our club had a paper tournament. I entered both. In the paper side of the tournament we had 26 lbs and on the weigh in side we had 21 lbs. We won both that day. I fished a tournament on Welsh with its 18" minimum. Anything under 18" was "weighed" on the paper chart but any fish 18" or longer were brought to the scales and weighed. I caught two over 18" and got their actual weight from the scales. Guys who caught 17.25" fish and used the chart had fish that "weighed" more than mine. That reason, among others, is why I like to fish tournaments on 14" minimum lakes and bring the fish to the scales. You don't have to wonder whose fish may have been skinnier or fatter than yours, and you don't get beat by guys who caught five 13 inch fish when you weren't able to weigh five slot fish that would have gone over 26 pounds.
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Re: Is paper weight charts that far off from scale weight?
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Here's one to add to this topic. it was 25 inches long but we did not weigh the fish. Otis
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