I'm guilty of weighing and measuring fish as a way to assess my angling success. Perhaps you too have "personal best" records. Then I got to thinking... Is a 10 lb bass that just ate a 1/2 lb trout bigger because it now weighs 10.5 lbs? Is a fish full of roe bigger because it weighs more that it would after the spawn? Is there such as thing a "true" weight? Average weight? See where I'm going - the same fish can have many different weights at different times.

In the tournament bass fishing world it is all weight. That's fair since everyone is working under the same rules.

How about you - how do you measure angling success?

BillH

By how much I enjoyed my day!!;)

I think if you weigh a fish.....as long as there are no bricks in its stomach....then you are ok....haha...
Angling Success is actually getting the time to go fishing. So im a very successful person!

depends on what you call success!

one big bass for a couple of guys on the boat or a bunch of small ones plus a few keepers on top of the loads of fun fishing along good people and the oportunity to enjoy a bitchin day out in the water away from the office.

i wont lie, i love big fish but i'd rather have fun in quantity and company rather than with single ego boosters. now if among that quantity i get quality....:7