DAY 3 at the canal 2- 43 in bass 28lb each

[wdmso]

Hit the Canal for the last day.. seems word got out the last 2 days were on fire .. the place was mobbed... today it was just smoldering I was Happy to pick up theses 2 on my savage from the shop.. still a lot of macks, the SP minnow was producing as well.. very limited surface action was a below the surface day for sure

[Thumper87]

Hit the Canal for the last day.. seems word got out the last 2 days were on fire .. the place was mobbed... today it was just smoldering I was Happy to pick up theses 2 on my savage from the shop.. still a lot of macks, the SP minnow was producing as well.. very limited surface action was a below the surface day for sure

Wonder where guys herd it was on fire....

[wdmso]

Wonder where guys herd it was on fire....

I know 24 mile of shoreline cape side and main land is a horrible spot burn people need to fish to fish .. Not chase reports.. if my info helps anyone hook up I am Good with that

[chefchris]

wayne are you weighing these fish on a boga or scale or estimating the weights?

curious as my findings this year have changed a lot. more once you reply.

[wdmso]

Chris both off Bogas seems if there 42 in tru 44 they have all bounced between 27-and 30 on the boga weighed one at red top was 30 on the boga but 28 on a certified scale but also had 6 macks on board.. and the fish a got today were maybe 15- 20 lbs top and the biggest a weak 40 inchs .. seem the ones out of the canal have been thick thru the shoulders not the early big head skinny ones here is a better photo this was from the 19th

[chefchris]

The reason I asked is, I got a fish the other day 40.5/41" bottomed my 30lb boga out, didn't look crazy, but was fat and thick, but then yesterday I got a 45" that I kept as it wouldn't revive, weighed it on the boga only 24, then weighed it at my local shop on their digital and it was 24.6lbs ten weighed it on my hand scale at home 24.6", so the longest fish I've ever caught was only 24.5lbs but the 41" was at least 30.

The 41" was super fat and had a big gut. But that's a lot of weight for a 41" fish. Sounds like the good ole days when fish weighed a pound an inch.

Ive been fishing alone down there, so all the pics are of the fish laying on the ground, which seems to distort the size/weight Of them.

The only thing I can think of is the boga was stuck or sand in it. But it weighed all other fish fine. So maybe it was right???

[scottw]

24" fish weighed 24 pounds...... 32 inch fish weighed 32 pounds......... 40" fish weighed 40 pounds in the good old days? I miss the good old days...

[chefchris]

24" fish weighed 24 pounds...... 32 inch fish weighed 32 pounds......... 40" fish weighed 40 pounds in the good old days? I miss the good old days...

Not exactly. You always hear guys talk about fish from the 80s and before being heavy for their length once they reached a certain length. Seeing I wasn't a thought back then I can't say from experience.

Maybe dz or steve cook could chime in.

At a certain size their weight exceeds their length.

[scottw]

At a certain size their weight exceeds their length.

@ 50" average...47" maximum.........I bet pre-Boga it was easier to just measure and say....."40 inches....I got a 40 lber' "

I want to see the pic of the 45" 24lb Ethiopian bass

the whole article is pretty good

by Frank Daignault
Let’s bring a little reality back to striper weight statistics
http://stripersurf.com/insider/fd_weights.html
INCH PER POUND
You will often hear that big bass will weigh an inch per pound. This is only true at a very short range in fork length around 50 inches. It is not the case with bass say over 53 inches or even 49 inches fork length. By the way, having weighed many dozens of 50 pound plus linesides as a beach weigh-master, I have never seen a 49-inch fork length bass that weighed 50 pounds.

Commonly, people who seek to make the case that our stripers are starving express both amazement and concern over 40 inch bass not weighing an inch per pound like they did in the old days. Truth is that an average 40-inch bass weighs about 25 pounds. They always did, and for a change to have taken place in the size numerics of any species, it would take hundreds of years of natural selection, not the one generation of development these curmudgeons groan about. Fifty years ago the fish and wildlife service published a chart which enumerated the fork lengths and weights of stripers from yearling schoolies to the biggest known. I documented the same numbers 30 years ago and never found anything wrong with their figures. Moreover, the same bass that I catch today, though admittedly I catch less of the monsters, demonstrate the same accuracy …as long as I measure the same way. Thus, a total length 50-inch bass today weighs 8/10 pounds less than those of when the original charts were developed. Not because it is thinner, but because it is being measured differently. We have always known that a 48-inch bass weighed in the low 40s.

[chefchris]

[QUOTE=scottw;39383I want to see the pic of the 45" 24lb Ethiopian bass .[/QUOTE]

scott heres a pic, was taken at work, 45" and only 24.5 lbs on three scales so its an accurate weight.

I edited the pic for toaster seeing he says I never smile