Guess the weight

[Angly]

I'm new here, returning to angling after a 15 year break, and I wasn't that good in the first place, but this looks fun so here goes...

 

Right, based on my hand width (minus thumb) of 4", I make that 20" nose to tail, and with Barbel weighing on average under 2lb per 18" (Source: The Complete Book of Fishing) I make that a 2lb 8oz fish maximum (allowing for you having bigger porkies than me).

 

Damn fine looking fish though.

 

Geoff

[Anderoo]

Very interesting so far - we have a margin at the moment of between 2lb 8oz and 7lb

 

Any more estimates?

[BREAMAGAIN]

I find Barbel diff. to guesstimate unless you can see the girth/muscle , that one weighs 5 and a half pound ?

[lutra]

I find Barbel diff. to guesstimate unless you can see the girth/muscle , that one weighs 5 and a half pound ?

Yes 5.5lb looks about right to me to.

[Severn Wolf]

I don't want to start an argument but I think your being a bit mean with the weight, at under 5lb.

 

John, hows that being mean mate? Thats what it looks to me.

 

I do know how barbel can be deceptive though. Seen pictures of sixes that look like threes so they can be tough to guesstimate.

 

I`m just going off the fishes length and its shape.

[Severn Wolf]

Here you go, this is a mid five................(don`t normally take piccies of them but it was an incredibly lovely morning)

 

 

[klonker]

OK, I'll throw my hat in the ring 6 - 7 1/2lb. 6 if it's as lean as it looks, but 7 1/2 if it's got width.

 

Are you going to let us know what you think it weighs, or do you actually know what it weighs, did you say?

[Severn Wolf]

Ok, I`ve revise my guess to about the same, mid fives.......

 

(happy now john? )

[gozzer]

John, hows that being mean mate? Thats what it looks to me.

 

I do know how barbel can be deceptive though. Seen pictures of sixes that look like threes so they can be tough to guesstimate.

 

I`m just going off the fishes length and its shape.

 

I know what you mean SW. I've been looking for one of the rare pictures of me with a barbel, ( I usually avoid cameras pointing in my direction). The barbel in my photo, I know weighed 5lb 4oz, and it looks a bit smaller than Anderoos.

It can only be a guess, and each to their own, but I'm sticking to my 'guesstimate'. (Has that now become a word? ).

 

John.

[klonker]

...'guesstimate'. (Has that now become a word? )....

 

John.

 

Comes up on my Mac dictionary also spelt guestimate