Zach Matthews
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I fouled hooked and landed a 31″ brown on the Cumberland that was big, healthy, looked normal–and only weighed 8 pounds.
PS, as Bob Riggins and maybe two or three others still with us can attest, every fish in this thread weighs 11.4 lbs.
Zach
Nice photos everyone (and Neal’s look especially crisp for some reason). Everybody overestimates fish sizes, and it’s even easier to do when you’re excited for someone else. Diane Bristol caught a nice fish in the Madison last summer and we came in to the shop having convinced ourselves it was an easy 23″. The guys in there were understandably skeptical, so we looked at the photos, and the fish was probably more like 20-21″. Not a huge difference lengthwise but it probably accounted for 3 lbs. of weight. A very nice fish still.
I don’t mind people taking WAGs at bigger fish; how many of us catch enough five pound trout to really be able to eyeball them? (Mike Anderson, put your hand down and sit there quietly, you are hurting the others’ feelings. ;)). I do get annoyed when people toss out the “twenty inches” moniker to describe any moderately large trout. I can’t tell you how many Atlantans I’ve heard claim to catch “a whole mess of twenty inchers” on the Chattahoochee. If there’s enough twenty inch trout anywhere in the Hooch to make a “mess,” then those trout are carp.
Zach
