AIM Lake Erie

[walleyejim1216]

9 lb Average on 7 fish? Are you freaking kidding me? Ive never even caught a 9 lber and he catches 7 in one day!!! I gotta get up there! Juls When your guide service grows enough you need another guide, give me a call! Might move there!!!

As in no way a 27 inch avergage equals 9 lbs per fish right now. The forumla used is terribly askew. 51 lbs would be more like the reality of the size fish out there right now and that's based on fishing the area for the past month. It must be in their best interest to exxagerate is all.

[fishhead315]

Caught 3 yesterday out of Lorain that were 27.25 27.75 and a 28.25 . the 28.25 weighed 7.7 and the other 2 were bearly 7.0 . Spring time females at 27 would go 9 or so,

[JOE WALLEYE]

This has gone round and round and round. The guy that catches the longest fish wins. The weights come from DNR data. The simple fact is the guy catching 27" fish is beating the guy catching 25" fish. LONG FISH WIN!

you dont have to agree that the fish weighed 7# or weighed 3# or what ever. This poor horse has been beat so many times I can't stand it.

http://www.aimfishing.com/docs/aim_rules_lwchart.pdf

here is the chart so everone can debat it again.

The important thing is that the fish have the best chance of survival compared to any other torunament formate being used! It may not be 100% but it is alot better than all those bloated belly up fish from "live" weigh in torunaments.

I will now step down from my soap box.

Agree, length wins and weight matters not. So why even bother to show a weight? Because nobody cares about length and weights, especially highly exagerated one's look better everywhere, on bios', TV, ads, endorsements, etc. The debate would stop if they just stuck to the measurement which as you point out, is all that matters.

[JOE WALLEYE]

you have to have some kind of weight or point value assigned to each fish lenght. If you simply took total lenght then you would have situations where 5 fish at 12" each (60" total) would beat two 29" fish.

Two fish that outweigh five fish win in any tournament, just as five short one's would beat two long one's. Longest total of up to seven fish win, regardless of how many caught. Tie breaker could be the single longest so no weight is needed at all, especially since it's not actual.

Total length is total length here, anywhere else, total weight is total weight Joe, end of story. I don't think you understand much about tournaments with that statement.

[blurangerstu]

eyedreamer I think you are a little confused here Joe is correct. I dont know anywhere that 5 12 inch fish would weigh more than 2 29 inch fish. The total does not matter all the fisherman are using the same scale so that number may be a little high but its the same for everyone.

[walleyejim1216]

I have caught several 27 inch fish but never 7 in one day!!! I WANNA FISH THERE!!!

[MykeG]

Yep, definitely wrong eyedreamer. Check the total lengths on the current 5th vs 6th place in the tourney.