FinLuver
Native Oregonian…1846
I think the article mentions there was no sign of them being in there for a while. Stomach acids reacting to them or the lack thereof ??
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Funny, I hadn't seen your post yet, but was thinking about this issue just last night. That is from the 1st time a guy went viral for getting busted like that. And the reason I was thinking of it was because an account I follow on IG has a friendly client bonker steelhead derby.
Well, their numbers for weight, length & girth are all over the place. Here's a screen shot.
The guy in 3rd should be the winner. Haha!
And if you know who this is, please don't make a fuss. They're good-hearted friendly people. Math is just a little fuzzy. I'm guessing the weighing and measuring is done by the angler so maybe wet nets and bad tapes are involved or something.
Or maybe 3 of these fish took hook, line and a BIG sinker.
Well, their numbers for weight, length & girth are all over the place. Here's a screen shot.
The guy in 3rd should be the winner. Haha!
And if you know who this is, please don't make a fuss. They're good-hearted friendly people. Math is just a little fuzzy. I'm guessing the weighing and measuring is done by the angler so maybe wet nets and bad tapes are involved or something.
Or maybe 3 of these fish took hook, line and a BIG sinker.
What's your formula for calculating weight of a steelhead with length and girth known? 40"X21"?Funny, I hadn't seen your post yet, but was thinking about this issue just last night. That is from the 1st time a guy went viral for getting busted like that. And the reason I was thinking of it was because an account I follow on IG has a friendly client bonker steelhead derby.
Well, their numbers for weight, length & girth are all over the place. Here's a screen shot.
The guy in 3rd should be the winner. Haha!
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And if you know who this is, please don't make a fuss. They're good-hearted friendly people. Math is just a little fuzzy. I'm guessing the weighing and measuring is done by the angler so maybe wet nets and bad tapes are involved or something.
Or maybe 3 of these fish took hook, line and a BIG sinker.
Pink Nighty
Legend
Pesquire, If you will.
There's a few out there. This one has been up forever-
They all put a fresh healthy steelhead that is 30" long and a girth of 16" just under 10#...9.90967741935484.
Any math guys in the room?
If they're skinny upriver summer bonkers like in that contest then a 30" fish is only 7 or 8#.
For healthy fresh fish you can usually guesstimate the following-
26"=6#
27"=7#
28"=8#
29"=9#
30"=10#
Then it gets a bit off since by the time you get to 38" it could be a 20# fish.
Skinny bucks weigh a bit more than skinny hens because of the bigger head. And a 16 ounce lead sinker weighs 1#.
downriver79
Steelhead
They also found identical weights in his boat.
DryFly82
Life of the Party
32.75" and 14.5" would be a snake. 29" and 13" would be unlikely to hit 8lbs. 31" and 15" should be right around the 10 lb mark.
Unless you regularly retain fish it's hard to get a feel for weight just going off length/girth. These are the stats from the 50 biggest wild rainbows caught at the camp I go to...grey were released, but the rest were verified measurements. You can't just go off the length below though because these were also some of the fattest fish caught.
Here's a fun chart. Data from 482 wild stillwater rainbows in the 4lb+ range caught since the 1960s. Not shown are the majority of fish in the 19"-23" range that didn't quite make the 4lb+ cut on the scale.
Yeah, if I had a dollar for every "about 10 or 12 pounds" steelhead I've heard out there. I had a guy say that on the Sky one morning when he knew I had clearly seen his fish at fairly close range. It was a cookie cutter 8 pounder winter hatchery fish. Ok, man, whatever you say.
