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Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:02 PM »
Here is a picture of a fish measuring box that ex-LT sent me. Looks pretty simple to make and handy. maybe ex-Lt can add some info about it.
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #1 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:10 PM »
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE BIGGER
AT LEAST FOR ME
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #2 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:11 PM »
...nothin' to it Big Ice, thanks for posting it, just a few pieces of scarp 1x4 lumber and an old ruler glued securely in place...I find it keeps the G&F Q of whether a fish-is-over-twenty  ???  to a minimum. Nose against one end tail pinched out to the other.  ;D
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #3 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:12 PM »
Quote from: Mooter on Jan 22, 2007, 05:10 PM
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE BIGGER
AT LEAST FOR ME
    Funny, that's what I told Big Ice he should do for his, 3X mine ...course he "set the bar" so high! hee-hee  :roflmao:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #4 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:13 PM »
Quote from: ex-Lt on Jan 22, 2007, 05:12 PM
    Funny, that's what I told Big Ice he should do for his, 3X mine ...course he "set the bar" so high! hee-hee  :roflmao:

I know Big Ice and it should be bigger
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #5 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:23 PM »
It really is handy when you're fishing like Boysen at ice-out and you've got what you know are five under and  1 over 20 inches and somebody's giving you grief...course I don't keep any of them tasteless salmonids,   :sick:  they all go back!  Lakers...that's a whole nother matter. ;D
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #6 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:44 PM »
Quote from: ex-Lt on Jan 22, 2007, 05:23 PM
It really is handy when you're fishing like Boysen at ice-out and you've got what you know are five under and  1 over 20 inches and somebody's giving you grief...course I don't keep any of them tasteless salmonids,   :sick:  they all go back!  Lakers...that's a whole nother matter. ;D

I don't mind smoking them but it hard to find big enough papers lol
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #7 on: Jan 22, 2007, 05:58 PM »
Haaaaaaaah!  :clap:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #8 on: Jan 22, 2007, 08:18 PM »
Everything I have caught this season so far would rattle around inside that box! I was thinking about making one but it would be about half that size. Actually thinking about going skiing again I really like to ski and don't half to beat anybody down the hill. Probably break my leg!
    The guy that definitely needs a bigger box is Mooster did you see the size of those eyes and bo's he has caught awesome fish!
    This last fishing derby at KH in two days I could not catch an eye bigger than 18 1/2"!!
 Losing the touch men! losing it!
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #9 on: Jan 22, 2007, 08:37 PM »
Hey Big Ice
I think that the fish have heard and seen you in action and that is why they are soooo tight lipped ;D ;D ;D
I don't think that you have lost a thing... ;)

 
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #10 on: Jan 22, 2007, 09:52 PM »
Quote from: Big Ice on Jan 22, 2007, 08:18 PM
Everything I have caught this season so far would rattle around inside that box! I was thinking about making one but it would be about half that size. Actually thinking about going skiing again I really like to ski and don't half to beat anybody down the hill. Probably break my leg!
    The guy that definitely needs a bigger box is Mooster did you see the size of those eyes and bo's he has caught awesome fish!
    This last fishing derby at KH in two days I could not catch an eye bigger than 18 1/2"!!
 Losing the touch men! losing it!

     That box is only 24 inches loooooong!!!! One o' you guys ain't truthing, I've seen yer posts!
                                                                 LT :bow:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #11 on: Jan 23, 2007, 03:59 AM »
 :bow: :bow: Good idea!!!!!!
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #12 on: Jan 23, 2007, 09:14 AM »
Hey Big Ice you should be using you shavings box

Have you improved on that yet????
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #13 on: Jan 23, 2007, 09:48 AM »
Quote from: 4x4elk on Jan 23, 2007, 03:59 AM
:bow: :bow: Good idea!!!!!!
     I built it out of self defense, lots of lakes over in Sublette cty where the laker=limit is 6 fish, one over twenty and Burnt Lake for instance, the macs average 19 1/2-21 inches. Say you have a fish that's borderline and  you've already got your over-twenty-inch fish, there's no room for eerror with a warden...especially since you've got to pinch the tail out. I just found it an extremely difficult task to accurately measure a flopping fish with a steel tape, while holding the head and tail stationary. I only built what I had seen the G&F creel-counters
use on Soda/Burnt Lakes, so I don't take any credit for originality.  ;D
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #14 on: Jan 23, 2007, 10:04 AM »
Quote from: ex-Lt on Jan 23, 2007, 09:48 AM
     I built it out of self defense, lots of lakes over in Sublette cty where the laker=limit is 6 fish, one over twenty and Burnt Lake for instance, the macs average 19 1/2-21 inches. Say you have a fish that's borderline and  you've already got your over-twenty-inch fish, there's no room for eerror with a warden...especially since you've got to pinch the tail out. I just found it an extremely difficult task to accurately measure a flopping fish with a steel tape, while holding the head and tail stationary. I only built what I had seen the G&F creel-counters
use on Soda/Burnt Lakes, so I don't take any credit for originality.  ;D

I think I 'm going to build one for boysen for the derby
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #15 on: Jan 23, 2007, 10:09 AM »
Oh yeah, specially the dedication, zeal and thoroughness  they check your rainbows with! I'm hoping my surgeon releases me Thursday so I CAN ACTUALLY USE IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!  :woot:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #16 on: Jan 23, 2007, 10:17 AM »
Quote from: ex-Lt on Jan 23, 2007, 10:09 AM
Oh yeah, specially the dedication, zeal and thoroughness  they check your rainbows with! I'm hoping my surgeon releases me Thursday so I CAN ACTUALLY USE IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!  :woot:
                                                     el-Teeeeee  ;D


IM LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AT THE LAKE SO TELL HIM WHAT HE HAS TO TELL YOU
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #17 on: Jan 23, 2007, 10:42 AM »
Feeling's mutual, Mooter, that's release is the biggest part of it, but I gotta tell you, I'm too sore inside to pick up that big-a** Jiffy, let alone crank it and hang on when it bites into the ice...might end up with me out there just cheering you guys on  :pinch:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #18 on: Jan 23, 2007, 11:05 AM »
Quote from: ex-Lt on Jan 23, 2007, 10:42 AM
Feeling's mutual, Mooter, that's release is the biggest part of it, but I gotta tell you, I'm too sore inside to pick up that big-a** Jiffy, let alone crank it and hang on when it bites into the ice...might end up with me out there just cheering you guys on  :pinch:

I can drill holes too buddy

Let a fellow ice fishermen help you out

It would be no problem
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #19 on: Jan 23, 2007, 11:34 AM »
...thanks...may just take ya up on that... :thumbsup:
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #20 on: Jan 23, 2007, 11:48 PM »
The measuring boards I have seen have the ruler in the center of the bottom. Probably wouldn't make any difference, especially since all you want to measure is the length to the end of a pinched fin.
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Re: Fish Measuring Box ex-Lt
« Reply #21 on: Jan 24, 2007, 09:12 AM »
...sounds like a better mousetrap, if this one ever breaks, I'll do that, thanks Hammerhead.
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