1-lb.-10-oz.-may-1-2013

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Comment by JBplusThuy on May 2, 2013 at 11:13am

Walt raises a good point: flat glass + wet, slimy fish = slippin'  an' a slidin' :)  Some kind of tray or plate to set the fish in would be a necessity.  If you want to use that scale for dedicated fishing use, you could permanently attach a tray to it with epoxy or superglue, I should imagine.

Comment by Walt Foreman on May 2, 2013 at 10:11am

I don't personally recommend this scale for fish - I discovered the hard way that the glass weighing surface tends to foster big bluegill sliding off of it as one is trying to weigh them...Guess I'll have to break down and buy another digital scale with a tray.

Comment by JBplusThuy on May 2, 2013 at 8:52am

I have one very similar to that, but I usually use it for weighing out green coffee beans (I'm also a coffee geek) for home-roasting, although I did use it for weighing that bass I caught a couple weeks ago. I put a plate on the scale and set the tare-off weight rather than put the fish right on the scale. Makes cleanup easier, and since it's technically my wife's kitchen scale, cleanup there would be :-)

I think we got it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, but they should be available in a lot of places. I just took a quick look at walmart.com and they have several digital kitchen scales there as well.  I never thought of keeping one in a boat, but it makes a lot of sense.

Not sure how waterproof those scales are, but probably more waterproof than an iPhone. I put mine in a ziplock bag when I go fishing, and rarely remove it from my pocket. Should really get a floating waterproof case for it, but since the camera is busted and I don't take or make calls when I'm fishing I guess that's not so important :-)

Comment by Jason Preslar on May 2, 2013 at 6:51am

I inquired about the scale in the picture on another forum also....where can I get a scale like that?

Comment by Walt Foreman on May 1, 2013 at 6:16pm

All of the shellcracker in this pond were stocked three years ago as 1-2" fingerlings.  So this is a three-year-old fish.

Comment by Bob Garner on May 1, 2013 at 6:11pm

dang that there is moby dicks child

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on May 1, 2013 at 6:11pm

What a toad!