West Boggs Fish Story

[GeoFisher]

Again......that is a MONSTER of a fish.

I've caught some nice ones there, and KNOW there are others.

I cannot wait to get up there again, but that will prob have to wait until fall........

Thanks,

Geo

[shane2480]

I am going to start by saying that is a GREAT FISH. My next is a downer. I punched the length and girth into 3 different BASS calculators and got a weight in the 9 pound range on all 3 calculators. If the measurments are put into a "general fish " weight calculator you get 11+ pounds. I will end with again GREAT FISH but I very seriously doubt that fish to be over 10lbs.

[MikeAxsom]

I also tried to find fish calculators online to see how the measurements might stack up for the weight possibilities. I know Fishin.com does not like links to be posted, but I am going to give you a couple that seem to agree with the idea of this fish being in the 11 lb+ range.

http://www.fishdreams.com/calculator.all_species.html
Be sure to check the catagory for freshwater bass.

http://www.myoan.net/fishing/weight_calc.html
This one does seem to disagree, and places the fish at under 10 lb.

http://www.mepps.com/fish_weight_calculator/
This one seems to be in the middle, but does not have a variable for fish body type.

Bottom line again is that we have to remember that there is no such thing as an official weight for a fish that was not made on certified scales. Estimates of fish size from any other criteria is all speculation, and has long been the subject of fishing jokes and the proverbial fish story. But having seem a lot of West Boggs bass, I willing to leave my own guess stand that this one is as big as Shawn thinks it is. If anyone can show me a better one frmo here, I'll be happy to tell folks about that one too.

[shane2480]

Like I opened with, I'm not trying to shoot the guy or fish down, even a 9 lb bass a great fish in anyones book. I am also going on recent experience of my own on saying how off the "fish calculators" are. Last month I caught a 23.5" long 16.5" girth fish that weighed on a scale 7.24 and according to the calcs that I found that same fishes measurements said that it was 8.59. That is a pound and a half off. Where I work I see alot of fish and people that exagerate the size(especially bass) It may very well have been an 11+ not trying to deny that, either way great fish and congrats to the angler on a fish of a lifetime from the southeren Indiana area.