Justin Stane electroshocked a 17.5 inch, 3.85 pound LMB in my BOW today. Anybody have relative weight tables? Sure looked fat...

ewest has a chart in the second thread in the archives. His chart show a 17.5" lmb at 3.0 lbs @ 100% . Looks like you have a nice female there. I am betting there are others like her in the lake.

I agree, that is a nice LMB.

There are lots of relative weight calculators available. Here is a link to one of them.

http://www.aces.edu/dept/fisheries/rec_fishing/RWCalc.php

Thanks, guys. Fishery in much better shape this year, I'm excited for next year. Huge numbers of CNBG and RES fry in the weeds, too, which is something I just didn't see last year. Biggest panfish 9.5 inches, maybe I can break personal best 10.5 inches next year.

But, as is pretty common, the 10 to 14 inch LMB were mostly below 100% RW. Need to take underperformers out! Also, maybe threadfin shad would help feed LMB of this size. Guess I need to restock forage pond with CNBG so can use it to supplement main BOW next year.