Chart for fish species length to weight in pounds

  • mb757
    Dodgeville, WI
    Posts: 73
    May 12, 2005 at 7:34 pm #1246573

    From time to time when fishing you are caught out on the water with out a scale. Is there a link that you can go to that has the length of a species of fish that you can then convert to pounds. As in a 20″ Small Mouth average weight is 5 or what ever pounds? It would be nice to know as when you release a fish you usually know the length but not the weight. Thanks in advance. Mark

    rickk
    Eagan, MN
    Posts: 28
    May 12, 2005 at 9:26 pm #362834

    Some of these require you to also measure the girth (not many of us ever do that). Here is one that gives you a good estimate based on length only. It may not be perfect, but that gives you more room to exagerate.

    http://www.outdoorsweekly.com/weigh.html
    web page

    Another way to do it is just to make it up.

    All “nice” sunfish weigh over 1lbs
    All “nice” bass are 5 lbs or better
    All “nice” walleyes are estimated at 8lbs

    You use this estimator like this. “I caught a “nice” walleye yesterday. The chart I used put her right about 8lbs or so…….”

    jroe
    iowa
    Posts: 22
    May 12, 2005 at 10:01 pm #362840

    If you go to the Fishing Hot Spots web site they have nice vinyl stick on rulers that give length and weight scales for Crappie,Bass,Walleye And Pike/Musky.Great for C/R.

    mb757
    Dodgeville, WI
    Posts: 73
    May 13, 2005 at 1:38 pm #362910

    All of the links are great. Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction. Mark

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