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Fish Lake Fishing Report
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What an awesome fish. Congrats and I'm very jealous. I caught a tiger there once but thought it was something else because I didn't know there were tigers in there.

Since we're having a polite conversation about estimating the weight of fish, I'll throw in a couple of things. When I started getting serious about catfishing I did a ton of research on the relationship between length and weight. One of the first things I learned is that everybody and his cousin has a formula, so it amuses me when somebody says this is THE formula. I compared a bunch of them and gave a lot more credence to those established by scientific studies that used terms like "least square means," "algorithm," etc. What I finally realized is that, according to the various formulas, I could estimate the weight of a channel cat by taking the second digit in it's length and adding one pound. In this case the second digit is 5 and adding a pound would put it around 6 pounds. I know this does not necessarily fit for trout. But I will look up the formulas for trout and get myself more informed. And to echo others, that's a dang nice fish, better than I have ever caught.

Okay, so I did a quick search and found a couple of formulas that were slightly different. They estimated the weight for a 25" trout as 5.84 and 6.57 pounds. For what it's worth:

The equation is: weight in pounds = girth2 x length / 800, with both girth and length measured in inches. Wood's equation was first developed with tarpon in mind, but it was quickly adopted by catch-and-release fishermen everywhere, because it's an easy way to provide a ballpark estimate of your fish's weight.

Fish Weight Calculations
The fish weights are calculated with the formulas below. If a fish girth is not specified, the default value Fish Girth = 0.58 × Length is used.

Trout, steelhead, mackerel, snook, redfish, bonefish
Fish Weight = Length × Girth × Girth / 900
Salmon, bass
Fish Weight = Length × Girth × Girth / 800
Walleye
Fish Weight = Length × Length × Length / 3500
Pike, gar
Fish Weight = Length × Length × Length / 2700
Sunfish, bluegill
Fish Weight = Length × Girth × Girth / 1200
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.
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Fish Lake Fishing Report - by icefisher88 - 03-22-2021, 04:31 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Cowboypirate - 03-22-2021, 05:34 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Big Sky - 03-22-2021, 07:13 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by icefisher88 - 03-22-2021, 08:51 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Fishin_Fool78 - 03-23-2021, 05:12 AM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Big Sky - 03-23-2021, 01:37 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by wyoguy - 03-23-2021, 03:59 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Mildog - 03-23-2021, 06:02 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by icefisher88 - 03-23-2021, 08:12 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Mildog - 03-23-2021, 08:38 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by icefisher88 - 03-24-2021, 03:25 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Big Sky - 03-24-2021, 03:48 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by catchinon - 03-24-2021, 05:50 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Cowboypirate - 03-24-2021, 09:57 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Cowboypirate - 03-25-2021, 06:37 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by TubeDude - 03-25-2021, 07:02 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Cowboypirate - 03-25-2021, 07:17 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by ChalkCreekUT - 03-25-2021, 07:45 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Mildog - 03-25-2021, 09:27 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by remo_5_0 - 03-26-2021, 01:22 AM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Big Sky - 03-26-2021, 01:54 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by remo_5_0 - 03-26-2021, 01:57 PM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Coldfooter - 03-28-2021, 12:45 AM
RE: Fish Lake Fishing Report - by Madziula - 03-29-2021, 03:33 PM

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