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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
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09/18/15 12:01 PM
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11.52lbs I call FOUL! And up my ante to 11.53 pounds. You been watchin' "The Price is Right" too long..... OK not counting my second guess we got 8 guesses. Just two or three more and we get an answer.
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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
[Re: salex]
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09/18/15 01:28 PM
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CCTX
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You got me. In fairness, I will rescind my guess.
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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
[Re: salex]
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09/18/15 01:40 PM
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14.44 but that's an awesome fish!!!!
Mark Cooper Onalaska Texas
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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
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09/18/15 01:48 PM
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If it ain't yours don't mess with it! Need a friendly place to talk hunting? www.talkhunting.com
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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
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09/18/15 02:19 PM
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Steve, is that Lex's place? No..but close. The other brother. Knew it looked familiar. You gonna tell us what she weighed?
"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: This is waht a bass should look like
[Re: salex]
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09/19/15 02:55 AM
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/19/15 03:37 PM
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The fish weighed 7.6 lbs and was just 19.5 inches long. I caught this on rod and reel. Most of the fish I catch are from our electroshock fishing boat. The "best" fish I have ever seen before this fish was 160% of relative weight. This fish was almost 185%. I have asked several of my friends in the lake management world if they had seen a fish with this high a relative weight (WR). No one had. If your curious about what relative weight is for a Bass. Here is a chart. Relative Weight Chart Not a whole lot different than a Body Mass Index for humans. Except most of us want to be thinner not heavier. D.A.Cooper had the closest guess, but went over by more than a pound. Like the Price is Right if you go over you don't win. I was giving away a $1,000,000,000,000,000 to the closest who did NOT go over.
Last edited by salex; 09/19/15 03:45 PM.
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/19/15 10:54 PM
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/21/15 02:38 PM
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D.A.Cooper had the closest guess, but went over by more than a pound. Like the Price is Right if you go over you don't win. I was giving away a $1,000,000,000,000,000 to the closest who did NOT go over.
What do I get? Although fat, fish did not look long enough to be over 10. Even 9 for that matter. Consolation prize? haha. Man that fish is heavy. What has she been eating?
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/22/15 12:08 PM
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OK, so we all guessed "too heavy," but I go back and look at the pic and think I should have guessed closer to 40 pounds based on the relative size of the fish to the not so tiny person in the pic.
A closer look reveals the only thing that is in true perspective are the fingers and from that even this specimen goes to a relatively smaller size with respect to length and weight. Now, if this condition can be maintained for a few more years, and this specimen has the genetic potential, the photo can be taken with the fish right against the fisherman's chest and look the same.
I also am curious, "What has this fish been eating?"
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/22/15 05:06 PM
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"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: This is what a bass should look like
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09/22/15 08:20 PM
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smaller bass, crappie, bluegill, golden shiners, red ear and threadfin. Interesting enough. no tilapia.
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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09/28/15 04:55 PM
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That is one beautiful fish! Congratulations for catching her, Steve!
PB: 10-01 on a Ribbit frog
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Re: This is waht a bass should look like
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10/07/15 10:15 PM
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Re: This is what a bass should look like
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10/08/15 11:07 AM
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smaller bass, crappie, bluegill, golden shiners, red ear and threadfin. Interesting enough. no tilapia. Here it is....in reality tilapia is not the perfect bass food. They are too deep bodied and spiny as aych ee double hockey sticks. A bass is limited in the size of tilapia it can take by those things. In extreme cases, bass will die from trying to eat too large a tilapia (this will also end the life of a pelican doing the same, trying to eat too big a tilapia). The two perfect foods I've found for bass are 1) rainbow trout and 2) common carp. The shapes of the fish and the lack of spines on the trout and only two on the carp, makes these species easy for a bass to eat big specimens and they are nutritionally dense. Of course there are issues with these two, but from pure "eat to grow" perspective they are superior foods. The thing about tilapia that makes them useful for bass is that they are the only species that can be produced in such high numbers in so little time and space with small amounts of money. It is nothing to do with nutritional density or other particulars. I am very careful where I use tilapia, many fisheries are not good candidates for the species.
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