Anyone need a good laugh?

[abens1078]

http://www.wvdnr.gov/2005news/05news003.shtm

My thought is that a fish of this length would need to have the girth of an ice cream bucket. I used a weight and girth calculator and found that a fish of that length would need a girth of 28 inches to weigh 18 pounds.

we are either looking at the wrong picture or someone is telling quite the fish tale.

[Iceman12]

There just happened to be a DNR biologist right there to measure it and weigh it? They said it was released. Seems fishy to me.

[Dan Thiem]

Record or no record that's a beauty!

[decoy]

That is a great looking fish. It May even be a 11-12 pounder. NO way it's over that though if it was only 30.87 inches. Perhaps it was 38.7 inches?????

[Crappie Jigger]

Ok hold it a little closer to the camera. Hold still. hide your fingers. There it looks like a seventeen pounder. (SNAP) There we have it a new state record.

[Ole1855]

A friend of mine caught a walleye out of the Red River in Winnepeg, it was 13# 10 oz., 26.5" long. He has it mounted and it looks fake because the girth is huge, it looks like a football.

Ole

[Mike Walerak]

According to the article it was verified by a biologist. I would really like to know the whole story. I will try to get the full report and let you know what I find out.

Have you ever taken a picture and not had it do the justice of the fish's size this might be an instance of that. I will check into it.

mw

[abens1078]

Ole1855,

Did the taxidermist or your buddy say what caused the huge girth? I'm assuming it was full of spawn but for the sake of sake of asking....

[mrwalleye_13]

what happened to the old take a picture by a tape measure, show me your not telling me a tale trick. My buddy zoomed in on 3 crappie minnows and took a pic and said they were 3-5 pound walleyes.. and it almost fooled me and i have been fishing walleys since i was 6

[Ole1855]

abens,

I don't know, he caught it up in Canada on the river that comes out of Lake Winipeg, I can't remember if it's the Red River or Winipeg River. They were up there fishing for big cats and walleye's.

[river rat316]

If you look at his line behind him does that look like a little tiny bobber? story looks awefull fishy my dad just caughta 31" on Mille Lacs last weekend and it weighed out at 11 pounds so 30.87 inches and 18 pounds doesnt sound right to me but you never know

[icehousebob]

The solution is simple. Gravity is different in West Virginia Unless that fish is full of rocks, there's no way it weighs that much. Having a brother as a DNR officer probably helps.

Ole, I can believe your friend's fish of that size. You said it was a river fish and they always seem to be built like footballs, where lake fish are more slender. I've seen a few out of the Minnesota that have looked like they were impersonating a largemouth bass.

[musky hunter]

Nice catch. Not the fish, but the claim of great weight. I'm comparing that fish to one I caught a few years ago. Mine went around 8 lbs, maybe 28" if I were to stretch hard. The West Virginia fish, while a nice fish, is no 17 pounds. 10, maybe 12? Maybe they lost the photo of the real fish and had to substitute a different one.

[RussPanfishguy]

Okay, boys thats a nice fish but the Saskatchewan record was broken a few weeks ago. Fish weighed in at 18.30 lbs, length was 36.5 inches The girth was 22.5 inches. The article is in the Nipawin Journal.

[chadice]

Maybe it's really a Zander, and just LOOKS like a walleye!