Chris...tape measure flat under the fish....tip of lips to the tip of the tail.....no pinching! Nice fish! I have found that if you keep the fish in a cooler well iced.....you will not lose any measurable weight......fish stay longer too!
did that... but neither of us was there to see how it was measured today at the shop. so who knows where those 4 inches went..
trust me it was a flat tape measure (ya know the standard metal construction type), no pinching. from the end of the tail in the center to the tip of the mouth. 44 1/2 no curving it over the fish or anything. all i can think of they measured only to the tip of fleshy part of the tail where as we measured all the way to the end of the fin part..
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
30lbs for a 44" fish is pretty much spot on from my experience. weighed straight out of the water it might have been a pound or two heavier...sorry to hear about the "shrinkage"...
I have found that if you keep the fish in a cooler well iced.....you will not lose any measurable weight......fish stay longer too!
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