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30" and girth?

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Whats you guy's guess on the girth of a 30" walleye up there this time of year? i didnt remember a flexible tape, and i didnt even realize i had string in the boat until after i had released it!! im thinkin of getting a replica

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I caught a 31" that had a 19" girth two years ago, but she was extremely fat. If you are talking about the fish you posted the picture of, I would guess around 17 max.

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does anyone know the actual conversion of length and girth and such? just tryin to get an idea on the weight of that fish.. im guessing around 11 lbs?

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Hey, that is an AWESOME picture! The background is too cool! Nice fish!

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I cant wait till friday to get back up there, DEFINITELY gonna be more prepared this time! Ill just have to get a bigger one and get a girth on it!

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My buddy and I got our 30" ers done last year and we also forgot to girth them. His was 9.7 lbs and mine was 10.2. The taxidermist told us that the 15 - 16" mark was where they would be.

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This one was only 28.5 inches but a real blimp. Didn't measure girth though.

Rainy2007-10-23walleye.jpg

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hmm like i said, im just gonna have to get a bigger one and get an actual girth on it. seems like theres alot of variance on these fish!

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Don't get to caught up with girth on these pre-spawn fish. Eggs are very light. Girth/weight coversions don't hold up as they would for summer or fall measurements.

These fat fish are very impressive to look at though.

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well from what ive heard the dnr measurements are taken mid summer and are usually very light- for example a 30" walleye is supposed to weigh 10.2 lbs or whatever the dnr says, but that is probaly at the lightest time of the year for that fish.

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As far as the weight goes, that can be quite variable. It takes a good fish to make 10 lbs. (even at 30 inches). You will have some below 30 that can get there but this is not the norm. On Rainy this year we weighed two 29.5s that went 8.1 and 8.7 and you would have sworn that they were both 9's or better. We also had a 28.5 that went 9.8. In my experience, I think that the dnr scales are usually toward the generous side (especially in the summer).

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We had 29 1/2 that was 9'8 lbs and a 30 1/2 that was 11'9 lbs this year.

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I caught a 34 1/4" 19" girth and weighed 14.3 lbs empty on eggs just wondering what it would have weighed if it would have been full of eggs? got a lot of nice pics of it also, I still got rainbows here if anyones looking.

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Looks like it could be anywhere from 14-16 inches on the girth of that fish.

These guys are right though, most of those fish running the rainy don't weigh out as good as you would think they do. We used to weigh some of them and most of the 28-29 inch fish were running 7-8.5 lbs. Some of the 29ers would weigh in the low 9lb range. I would say you are looking at a fish anywhere in the 9-10 lb range.

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It is probably due to the eggs versus a fall feedbag girth. Someone earlier had said how the eggs don't actually weigh that much.

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This spring up on the Rainy, we boated two 31's, three 30's, and three 29+. Girths on all were between 15 and 17 inches. As far as weight goes, I cannot help you there (we didn't weigh ours)so I can only speculate.

I do know that the Mississippi River fish from Pool 2, 3, and 4 weigh up alot better than the Rainy River fish do. An inch or two of girth makes a big difference, but how long that girth is makes even more difference. Rainy River fish have bellies and eggs. Mississippi River fish have that, AND shoulders!

Your 30 incher probably had very close to a 16 inch girth (that's what ours had). Formula puts it at 9.6 pounds...not always completely accurate, but probably pretty darn close in this case. 31 x 17 comes out to 11.2 pounds, so an inch of length and girth makes a huge difference.

Any way you look at it, that's one nice fish!

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That weight could vary by 3-4lbs this time of the year....the conversion charts are for average. I would add 2lbs minimum this time of the year.

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