Do you measure your big fish? Cos I need some help please...
I am in need of a bit of help with a fish I caught yesterday. I'd been fishing in the rain, the last day of four on a rather low river Severn. I took a fish, 7lb 6oz and then got soaked through. My...
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Hi Ken, As Tom says, there doesn't seem to be any published study of length/weight relationship for UK barbel (Barbus barbus), but for Spanish barbel (Barbus sclateri) the relationship is: Weight (g)...
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Mel, That's great. Could any maths bods/computer geeks out there set this up as an online calculator? Tom
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Good idea Tom - I struggled for some time with EXCEL to work it out! There must be a computer expert out there who could do one? Are there any people who routinely measure the length of their fish as...
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Mel, I have mentioned this a few times. With the amount of fish caught it would be easy to come up with a scientific regression model relating the weight of a fish to its length. As I am sure you know...
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Cass/Tom, Following this up... see email. We still need a computer whizz who can put a 'calculator' on the site - any one out there? Mel
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This is all quite interesting, thanks for the thoughts and opinions. At the end of the day I caught a mighty fine barbel and I'm happy, I think Dudley (the name I gave the fish, a Harry Potter homage)...
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Hiya Mel, If you're happy with the calculation it would only take me 10mins or so Monday morning to knock the workings of something together in Javascript if BFW would be happy to style and host it?...
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That sounds excellent, if BFW are happy with it.
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Sounds great! Anyway to store the data? edit.. Wait - this will be for a different species! Barbus sclateri as opposed to Barbus barbus. Wouldn't it be better if an entry form could be made open, in...
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Yeee-aarrgh I think "waterwhirl" has a very valid point in finding our own equation for our very own Barbus barbus(boris-boris). If we all chip in with the relavent information then a pattern should...
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Sounds like fun to me... and I would be happy to do the stats as best I can Is there any one else out there that has knowledge in this field? It would certainly be interesting to compare the...
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Karlos, I'll email you a pic of Dudley and the other one. Ken
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Ken, If Dudley was caught anywhere near where it's name suggests please e-mail me a pic too. Might even have one already with weight from last season. Just click name on this post for link. cheers.
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Ken, I've replied. Sounds like you where in the right place to me. Tom
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Right, after some top class help from Tom I think I've got a match with a fish that came out 11 months ago at 10lbs 15oz. Dudley is a little larger now judging by our comparison shots. So I'm...
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A lot of measuring and logging has been done before on this subject over 20 years ago. Fred Crouch attempted to do it in the ABE with some success, by collating the info from various sources who were...
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Ray, Like most people on here I greatly respect the work you have done over the years for the species. Your dedication is second to none. So please take what I'm going to say in the spirit it is...
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Ray, Thanks for the reply, very interesting. By the way, I really enjoyed your chapter in Big Barbel, it was the first one I read. I think with this fish I'm trying to be wise. Tom has an accurate...
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