Tree123 Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 After a break and now cominf to back to fishing. Im making the choice to not weigh any fish. Because that way im.hoping ill just enjoy the fish for what it is rather then the lbs and ozs? Anyone done the same? crusian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muftyboy Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 I don't weigh a lot of fish. Unless its a special looking one or if its one of the bigger residents I don't really bother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framey Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 Last fish I weighed for myself was 2 years ago. if it’s bigger than my pb then I might or when I go onto a new water I might weigh the first one just to gauge it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmcee Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Tree123 said: After a break and now cominf to back to fishing. Im making the choice to not weigh any fish. Because that way im.hoping ill just enjoy the fish for what it is rather then the lbs and ozs? Anyone done the same? Must admit I weigh everything, I like to put a weight to a fish and I do enjoy every fish. Some of that is also down to the fact that the lakes I fish/have fished, the owners want to follow fish weights/growths etc so I do it instinctively. Though I've seen other anglers, mates even just slip fish back without weighing. If you feel that weighing a fish takes something away from the capture then that's your choice. Each to their own I guess. Its-grim-up-north and yonny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmoputney Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 I don't think it adds or takes away any enjoyment for me really, I just like to know, the weight isn't be be all and end all, I'm just happy to catch, I do only tend to weigh them if they upper doubles + though just incase, because the 20lb + fish seem to have eluded me since my return to fishing last year, 😁 yonny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Tree123 said: After a break and now cominf to back to fishing. Im making the choice to not weigh any fish. Because that way im.hoping ill just enjoy the fish for what it is rather then the lbs and ozs? Anyone done the same? I don't weigh every fish, although I do weigh a fair few. Pike I tend to weigh if they look close to or into double figures, and carp on Bromeswell I weigh if they are around my estimate of 8lb, which seems to be an above average size for that water. Roach if they are close to a pound get weighed, and bream my figure is above 6lb. Tench, I aim for anything above 6lb, so they get weighed, and chub my figure is 3lb. In terms of pounds and ounces, and 'largest' fish or personal bests, the smaller species get accurate weights to the ounce, but carp and pike get rounded down. So my Alton pike this year bounced to 20lb 8oz, but I'll take 20lb as its weight. My largest carp was 33 and a bit, but to me its 33lb. Bream and tench are a bit of a mix though. My largest tench is 12lb 2oz, but if it goes 9lb and a bit, i'll take 9lb. Same with bream, my largest is 12lb 4oz, but I have had others that I accepted 12lb as the weight. crusian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluelabel Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 I don't normally... but if I think it may edge over 20' I do... yonny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree123 Posted April 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, salokcinnodrog said: I don't weigh every fish, although I do weigh a fair few. Pike I tend to weigh if they look close to or into double figures, and carp on Bromeswell I weigh if they are around my estimate of 8lb, which seems to be an above average size for that water. Roach if they are close to a pound get weighed, and bream my figure is above 6lb. Tench, I aim for anything above 6lb, so they get weighed, and chub my figure is 3lb. In terms of pounds and ounces, and 'largest' fish or personal bests, the smaller species get accurate weights to the ounce, but carp and pike get rounded down. So my Alton pike this year bounced to 20lb 8oz, but I'll take 20lb as its weight. My largest carp was 33 and a bit, but to me its 33lb. Bream and tench are a bit of a mix though. My largest tench is 12lb 2oz, but if it goes 9lb and a bit, i'll take 9lb. Same with bream, my largest is 12lb 4oz, but I have had others that I accepted 12lb as the weight. 12lb tench jeez that much big huge salokcinnodrog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B B Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 I find I weigh the smaller species of fish Bream, Tench and Roach to the oz but large carp round it off. I weighed a large Mirror I caught in France on 3 different scales to try an get it to 50lb but it wasn’t happening lol so I rounded that off to 49 lb. crusian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Tree123 said: 12lb tench jeez that much big huge Yep. It meant more than the mirror I had the night before which I didn't photograph. smufter, Tree123, Choprider and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B B Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 Corrr that’s a big girl 👍 salokcinnodrog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smufter Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 For a Tench that size my scales would have been out. For a Carp? Don't think so. salokcinnodrog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Big Bass said: Corrr that’s a big girl 👍 One of the biggest caught (and publicised) in the UK that year. It did make a spread in Anglers Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 I do weigh every fish, but few times I've forgot too, if I'm gettin runs, jus wanna get rods back out, 1 session I landed 15 fish in 22 runs weighed about 7 fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonny Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 17 hours ago, bluelabel said: if I think it may edge over 20' I do... Pretty much same here. I'll not bother with doubles but I think it's nice to track growth of the future bigguns. emmcee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayvid Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 On our syndicate I weigh everything ,then photograph it mostly on the mat , that is for tracking our fishes progress . We had one go in ,in 1994 at around 6 I believe its around 25 now . Other than that its mainly fish over 20. yonny and emmcee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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