Started fishing bass and tournaments late in life and was not good at guessing weights of fish. My Brother and I fished our first Berkley 8 or 9 years ago and I caught what I thought was a nice under but according to the scale I was using it weighed only 1.32 lbs. Fish seemed heavier and bigger so I put it in the live well anyway. Finished the day and took the boat out of the water. Forgot I had the fish in the well until we began to drain it. Took it out and was walking it to waters edge when another fisherman asked me why I hadn't taken it to weigh in. Told him about the weight and he suggested I take out my scale and weigh it again but to make sure is was reading in pounds and not kilograms. Yep, originally weighed the fish in kg and not lbs. Reset the scale and the fish weighed 2.9 lbs which turned out would have been the heaviest under weighed in. The biggest thing we caught the rest of the tournament was a giant snapping turtle.

Ken, I remember that 11.97, heck of a sack.. Maxwell and Grier had a 12.07 one fish was in the slot the next event after yours...

I'm not thinking straight and cull the wrong fish. We get to weigh in pull the fish out and low and behold 4 nice ones and one little grn pickle..

For those who get bored here is the video of 2014 National Championship

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-oyYdGay8

Enter.

I am not alone.