walleye weight question

  • josh a
    Posts: 588
    February 24, 2012 at 10:32 pm #1275961

    how fat would a 28.5″ walleye have to be to weigh 10 pounds?

    Coreyhuberty
    Brainerd,MN
    Posts: 322
    February 24, 2012 at 10:41 pm #1042781

    Fat enough to weigh 10lbs !

    rmartin
    United States
    Posts: 1434
    February 24, 2012 at 10:42 pm #1042783

    According to a weight calculator estimate, the girth would have to be around 16.25 inches. IMHO, 16.25 is not high enough.

    calc

    leeck12
    Posts: 33
    February 24, 2012 at 10:45 pm #1042784

    I have a 29.5×22 that weighed 11lbs14oz that i mounted so i would say 18 to 20in girth.

    Jesse Krook
    Y.M.H.
    Posts: 6403
    February 24, 2012 at 10:51 pm #1042786

    I’ve seen 29″ walleye that only weighed 5 lbs

    eyehuntr14
    SE WI
    Posts: 102
    February 24, 2012 at 11:07 pm #1042790

    I have a 28 1/2″er from Depere that weighed in at just over 11 lbs. I believe the girth was at a tad over 19″. My buddy caught one in Devils Lake that was 29″ and it couldn’t of hit the 7 lb mark…old, old male!!!

    joemama
    North St Paul
    Posts: 392
    February 24, 2012 at 11:26 pm #1042798

    Quote:

    how fat would a 28.5″ walleye have to be to weigh 10 pounds?

    close enough to lie about it

    Grouse_Dog
    The Shores of Lake Harriet
    Posts: 2043
    February 25, 2012 at 12:00 am #1042813

    Quote:

    how fat would a 28.5″ walleye have to be to weigh 10 pounds?

    the nice thing about measuring….is that you get to do it…..

    josh a
    Posts: 588
    February 25, 2012 at 1:12 am #1042824

    I think there must be a rule that says anytime you catch a big walleye its a ten-pounder. The same goes for every other species. A nice looking bass must be 5 pounds, a decent looking muskie is always over 20, the list goes on….anybody else ever notice this?

    john23
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 2582
    February 25, 2012 at 3:12 am #1042863

    Really, really fat. I can’t say I’ve measured a girth, but I’ve weighed a lot of 28-29″ walleyes and it takes a winter weight fish on the river to get to 10# at 28.5″, and even them some of them won’t make it to the 10# mark. I would guess that on most lakes a 28.5″ walleye will never hit 10#, but Mississippi River fish get a crazy girth in the winter that puts some of them over the mark. Bottom line: true 10# walleyes are pretty darn rare.

    jennyhanson416
    Polk County, WI
    Posts: 79
    February 25, 2012 at 6:18 am #1042875

    In comparison, go to my post in the ice fishing forum, think I named it, “Yay Yay, another thing off my checklist” If you go to the second page of comments, I posted another pic of my walleye, that was 29 1/2″ and weighing in at 8lbs 9ozs.. So it would be a little bigger in girth than that.. Hope that gives ya an idea..

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13651
    February 25, 2012 at 10:08 am #1042882

    As mentioned, (besides the embellishing of size) there seems to be two classes of walleyes. Some are built like a Tomahawk Missle, long skinny tubes that don’t pack on the weight. Even in the Spring pre-spawn, they don’t have that dense body mass to give them extra couple pounds. Then there are the freaky fat ones with incredible body mass. Your absolutely right in looking at what it takes for girth to get you into that heavy class of fish. At 28-1/2″, my GUESS would be that you need greater than 18″ of girth plus the cavity filled with spawn to break the 10# mark. That is a huge girth for that length of fish. Not to say they don’t exist, because we know they do. But for a walleye to have a girth that is greater than 60% of its length is not common.

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