+2 times 12

Agreed! Trying to edit out the background of a picture is dumb. We are all fishermen here, there is no reason for that. If you want to keep your PUBLIC pond a secret DONT POST PICS!!!

a good indication is looking at a persons hand and the gill plate. also is the tail. you can see that the tail on the 13 pounder is FAT!! the other fish.. not so much. she is heavy with eggs but looks to me like a 6 pound fish with an additional pound and a half of eggs. so maybe 7 and a half. plus he's holding that fish straight out in front of the camera so you can take a fat 5 pounder and make it look like a giant!

mike long out in cali wrote an article up on how much weight a teen bass gains during spawn from the eggs. i'll try and locate that and post it up. BUT it was under a pound for a 15 pound bass full of eggs if I remember correctly.

just my .02

p.s. buy a scale.

Nice fish even if he caught in the middle of downtown Dallas with a dip net on his lunch break.

If that fish isn't 10 pounds, it's real close. I have a fool-proof, scientific method that would allow me to calculate the weight of the fish within one ounce +/- using only the picture. Unfortunately you have chosen not to share the pond's location with your fellow anglers so you are S.O.L.

PS-On second thought that fish 4 or 5 pounds tops.

Cool, thanks for the replys. Once again, wasnt my fish, wasnt me without the scale. I took out the background per request by the guy who caught the fish. Tough crowd!

im gonna have to say no to the top pic unless the guy holding it is 7 ft. tall and ....Your fish looks to be a solid 9....just a little shorter than the one in the top pic and less bulky but holding a lot of eggs...so they are probably close to the same size.

Excellent fish no matter what the scales say!

two of the fish (the 10..20 and the 10.40) i have in this pic were both certified..you can use these pics to help you get a better idea.

We're just busting your huevos!! It's a great fish. Congrats.

Now thats funny!!! I asked what CITY it was in and got nothing...

Miker,

That looks like the pond at the fire school in college station.
could be wrong though,
BG

I've seen that fish at the Tackle Box, it was a good one!

Looks like an 8-9 pounder to me. Seems bigger until I noticed it was held far away from his body, which usually makes fish appear a bit bigger in photos.

i say a fish like that out of a pond at least 12 possibly more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice fish any way you look at it. Congrats. I have a hard time believing the fish in the top pic is over 13, and I should know.

Nice Bass. At least 10+ fish.