A few years back, I read a brief article in a fishing magazine (In-Fisherman, I think?). They were attempting to verify the length of a fish via an old photo. I think it was a pike or a musky.
An ex-military intelligence officer had wrote in; he had a lot of experience analyzing photos.
He suggested that a grown man's hand would exhibit a pretty certain amount of distance between the middle knuckle and the last knuckle on a certain finger. I think it was 1.5"
If I measure my middle finger's knuckle distance (because george's right middle finger seems to be showing clearly), I measure 1.5"
If george's is 1.5", than I think that smallie must be over well 21" long.
I wonder if that smallie isn't 5lbs. or a little more.
