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mechanical head
06-26-2002, 10:08 AM
Caught earlier this spring, can you guess this eye's weight (hint: she's over 31 inchs long).
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/161walleye.jpg

For those wondering she was caught in season, and released.



STEINFISHSKI
06-26-2002, 10:18 AM
Dennis, looks like 13 lbs to me. Nice job, and thanks for putting her back. Maybe I'll catch her next.;)
rookie1
06-26-2002, 10:35 AM
Nice fish! I'm going to guess 11.5 lbs.
stelmon
06-26-2002, 01:24 PM
I am guessing 9. The reason Iw ent with nine is I caught on longer but a little skinniar. Your is a bit slammmler in legth but a huge girth.

Nice fish M.H
tkpolasek
06-26-2002, 02:43 PM
Looks like one of those Lk. Michigan fish that took a journey thru White Lake. Not as big as the one you have on the wall though. I would guess 11.25 probaly caught on a fly rod.

TIM
Hamilton Reef
06-26-2002, 02:48 PM
It looks like one of our White Lake Area Sportfishing Association fish that we stocked at 1.8 inches back in 1991.
mechanical head
06-26-2002, 03:09 PM
Really not a fair contest for you Tim, your are a little light though. She's about 4oz lighter than the pig you netted for me.
The Whale
06-26-2002, 04:28 PM
I'm going with 13.25 lbs. Beauty fish.


Whale :cool:
hoffie1
06-26-2002, 11:13 PM
Nice eye mechanical head (12.75) been trying for many years to get one that big. No such luck but hopefully one day.
hoffie
master anglerette
06-27-2002, 08:57 AM
ok guys i am going to take a guess..... 11lbs 8oz.
my cousin caught one that was 29 inches and it was just under 9 lbs. so when do we get to know how big it was? lol you can always pm me and let me know
MGV
06-27-2002, 09:40 AM
I am thinking that is about 10lb 4 oz. From the look of length and girth.
mechanical head
06-27-2002, 09:50 AM
She was a little over 12 pounds, 12.3lbs. I have caught a couple larger, the one tkpolasek netted for me a year earlier was a little larger so I mounted her, I wanted one walleye on the wall. I'll try to find a picture of that fish and post tomorrow.
mechanical head
06-27-2002, 10:15 AM
Ray, think of it as the trickle affect, its like charging a battery, the longer and slower you do it the better the charge will be. Besides that if either you or I decided to share all are secrets at once I’d be like dropping an atomic bomb on someone’s brain, it wouldn't be pretty..lol
master anglerette
06-28-2002, 12:41 AM
wow 12.3 lbs
mechanical head very nice fish. I am hoping to someday catching my first 10 lb walleye.
garyrodbender
06-28-2002, 05:08 PM
What a HOG! How much fun was that? Also ditto`s to releasing her, she`ll be pushing 15#`s next season.Did you say below the high banks at Tippy? :)
cireofmi
06-29-2002, 04:54 PM
I would be happy catching one half that size in Ontario this year. I can't wait. Only 2 more weeks till I will be fishing in Ontario.
Hamilton Reef
06-30-2002, 11:49 AM
Mechanical Head, Very nice walleye. When you mentioned 31-inches and I saw the girth, then I knew you were the same class as my nieghbor Stan's mounted fish that was also 31-inches and 12 lb 3 oz. A few years ago in November, I took Stan out on the White Lake channel wall during a strong wind storm. On his second cast he caught his trophy (beginner's luck of course).

Stan thought it was nice, but he had no idea how nice. On our way home I told him were going to stop at the grocery store. Past midnight the meat department is closed, but the registers had scales for produce etc. We can get away with this in a smaller town. The register scale didn't have a blank catagory, so we weighed up 12-lbs 3-oz of bananas. That's what the slip said. I still have not caught bananas that big.