Originally Posted by Lee24
teal,
If you read the original post, those bass on the table are just the ones we kept to eat. The big one is 29 inches long.


Not likely.

Even if we are to believe that this fish is 29 inches long - it won't make 13 lbs in weight. No way.

Using this calculator (go down to bass specific one) it would have to have a girth of 19 inches to be 13.32 lbs. That fish isn't only 10 inches skinnier than long (assuming the 29 inches is true)

Mepps figures a girth of 20 inches with a length of 29 to get 13 lbs

The "average" girth for a fish that size (and most charts don't go to 29 inches for bass due to the EXTREMELY unlikely possibility you have one that big) is 16.82 inches, that gives you about 10 lbs at best. Here.

The body type of a bass would have to be "large for class" at 29 inches and 18 inches of girth to get you 13 lbs here. That fish isn't.

The world record fish (large for class body type) was a bit over 32 inches long and weighed 22 pounds. Yet yours is only 3 to 4 inches shorter and 10lbs less?

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This is a Field and Stream photo of a 13 lb bass (caught by the same guy who got the world record) It is at 13 lbs and much larger in girth than your fish.

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Sources

That's 4 different length to weight calculators all showing about what would be needed to get a 29 inch bass to 13 lbs - yours doesn't measure up.



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