My tenant weighed that small mouth he said it was 5.25 pounds on his digital scale.
Did you catch those Splake off a tip-up with cut sucker meat? Right off the bottom? If so, that's pretty cool.
Side note: Your friend's scale might not be accurate (maybe test on something already weighed) or maybe it's just the picture angle, but I'm not sure that Smallie is 5lbs. Gorgeous fish though! But here's one I caught in Michigan 5 years ago and this was like 5 1/2 pounds just to show as reference:
(Also, not being rude at all, don't take my text tones that way!)