33″ Walleye Question!

All,

I was lucky enough to land a hawg walleye on Saturday morning that measured 33″.

I took about a roll of pictures and let her go.

Man, what a fish! I was in shock for about 24 hours.

My largest walleye prior to that was 26″ maybe 27″.

This was a very fat & healthy river fish – what do you thing that gal weighed?

Brian

P.S. I’ll post a photo a.s.a.p. (My wife did not go to 1 hour photo!)

I would guess 12-13lbs. I know other people have better estimations methods that are more accurate but usually require math-but I use 25″ walleye is about 5lbs. Each 1″ after that adds 1 lb. So 5+8 equals 13lbs. This runs a little high-so 12-13lbs.

Well done Brian !!

Look forward to seeing the pic….

keep fishin

ec

What was the girth measurement? Can’t wait to see the pictures. According to one formula I have for walleyes (length x length x length divided by 2700), your fish would weigh 13.31 lbs.

Here is a link to a chart of other calculations done with the same formula:

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/faq/trophy.htm

You can either use the formulas yourself or click on the converter table and print out a multi-species list of calculated weights.

Very impressive Brian!

Way to go.

Can I ask what section of river this monster came out of?

Congrats.

Here’s a link to another estimator that factors in the girth as well as length:

http://www.gowalleye.com/calc.htm

Way to go!!!!

What a pig!!! Last summer a buddy and I put a 32.5 ” in the boat and it was about 12.5 lbs it also was released.

Wow! I can’t wait to see the pictures, I’d also like to say thanks for putting her back. It’s nice to know there are still hogs like that swimming around.

NICe job, that would took a lot of sport not to put that one on the wall…maybe next spring u can…. cant wait to see the pics!!

What a man !!!

A picture is worth a thousand words ! And you can carry a picture in your shirt pocket!

May you be blessed with a 14lb next opener !!!

Richard (Smitty)

Keep a tight line !!!