Advice for posting weights of fish. {at least bass}

Just don't do it!! Unless you have a huge fish and can get it weighed on certified scales you just give a forum to every critic in bass fishing to bad mouth your catch. Have you ever noticed that this seems to be a trait of bass fishermen? I have never seen a pic of a big crappie that was said to weigh two and a quarter be bashed. Catfish? Can't recall any.Just bass. Says something about our crowd perhaps? IDK

But that's the fun of it. Love to see, "Guess The Weight" threads.

Some horribly gross over estimate their fishes weight.

And some get horribly too offended by someone else's "over estimation"

My wife has been lied to for years about size, is it really that big of a deal ? (Pun intended)

I wouldn't get too upset by the opinions of some of the people on this forum.....there are some real winners.

It's easier for people to be jackholes behind a keyboard than to say, "Nice fish!" and move on.

I trust my Boga to get me within 1/4 lb or less. If someone wants to look at my photo and say they can tell more than I can looking at my scale more power to them.
But I do get your point.

I'd say on average it's not that big of a deal..

5.2lbs. Yesterday. Stock pond X

nice 2 pounder Collin LOL

Very nice!

Look at the size of that thumb--must weigh a pound or two itself!

The only thing that bass fishermen lie about more than the weight of their fish is How fast their boat will run! LOL

It's all about the camera angle and how far the fish is from the camera Jerry. I've seen six pounders that look like ten and I have seen 10 pounders that look like six. You know what I'm talking about.

Jealousy breeds idiocy!

Bass fisherman stretching the truth?......I'm shocked

For me if you got a fish and weighed it, then say it's 5 lbs then i believe you 100%, say nice fish, and move on.
If you pull one out that looks like 2 lbs and say "Oh yeah, that's a nice 5 lber there" then I'm going to put you on my comedy list. Put it on the scales or just say "caught one" and toss it back.

Get your foot off the fishes tale and let it hang natural and it will lose 2 pounds...

I caught this one last week on Lake Falcon

Nice 14incher!

but really, nice fish. Hope the fishing down there is good

Being a big boy I make 5 lbrs look 2 lbs... LOL. If someone doesn't want to believe the weight I post on here it doesn't bother me one bit. If I posted the weight then I actually weighed it, if folks don't wanna believe it that's their choice, but my dogs and I know the truth and that's all that matters.

We might as well tell the truth, because since we're fishermen, no one is going to believe us anyway!

I don't worry about it.
Of course, I'm also not overly impressed with a 5lb fish either.