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Ol Sanch · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 320

So I caught this flounder a while back and I didn't bother to take any measurements. Now I'm kinda curious. I've seen some of you guys do some great detective work to debunk claims of 30+" trout. Was hoping you could give me an idea of how long and wide using the same techniques. To get the "That guy is full of s....." Juices flowing, I'm going to say this was around 23" long.

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Bigrock · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:23 pm Post subject:

Need a little more info to make a good guess.

Is that a 50' or 75' water hose?

What size are your crocs?

How long is the stringer the fish is on?

Are you 7' 5" tall or 5' 4" tall.

Given the lack of info, I would say your guess of 23" is pretty dang close. Very Happy

Ol Sanch · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 320

LOL!

I'm 5'7". The only point of reference I could use was the fist that I'm making while holding the stinger. I measured my fist and it's about 3" from my index finger to my pinky.

I'm actually guessing that it's about 20".

ironmanstan · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:13 pm Post subject:

21.4333333333.
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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:04 pm Post subject:

Check your hand measurement again. It's nearly a universal that across most guys hands is approximately 4 inches.

As such, based on my handy-dandy, ultra-scientific calipers, measured on the screen - that fish is just shy of 18 inches (seems small, but then again, it's a guess).

If your hand really is only 3 inches across (NOT a Trump joke here!), then that fish is just shy of 19 inches.

Either way, it doesn't strike me as a doormat of the mid-20's range (you even get the advantage of the super-streched jaw from hanging it like that). Quality fish, none-the-less.

CS

odocoileus55 · Horse Mullet Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 114

I got 18-19" too via eyeballing the width of sunglasses.

LoneOak · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 4:28 pm Post subject:

I think the iron man nailed it. ( I would never stoop to punning) Very Happy

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mechdave · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 7:30 pm Post subject:

Definitely less than the 28" I caught a few years ago.
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TroutSupport · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:36 am Post subject:

Yeah, somewhere in the 19inch range..

speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

measure the real length of one of you sunglass lenses. Looks to me to be about 2 1/4". Based on what I figured from the picture there are 9 .25 lenses in the length of the fish. So I got it figured at just a little north of 21".

Mike

ironmanstan · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:27 am Post subject:

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I say 20"
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lifeaquatic · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:14 am Post subject:

This got my attention now.

Got the ol' ruler pressed against the computer screen. The fish on my screen is six inched long. Making a guess at the sunglasses...left edge of glass to right edge of glass on the computer screen is 1.5 inches. My assumption is the glass edge to edge two dimensional measurement is 5 inches in actual size. 6/1.5 = 4 to 1 ratio, 4 x 5 inches = 20 inches.