Bruce, YES -- you are duplicating the famed Pelican Lake bluegills, which we often have measured at Wr values of 130 to 140. Pretty cool that you can replicate that, eh?? I was with Gabelhouse there when he caught one that was 10 15/16 inches long. His "guys" (the biologists) would NOT let him claim that he caught an 11 incher. Can't remember what it weighed, but think it was like 1 3/4 pounds.

As for recent tables of the standards for weight at length, I usually do all those by calculator or by computer program. We have mathematical equations specific to each fish species.

Here's my best "quick" idea to get you some of the information. Go to our departmental web page.

http://wfs.sdstate.edu/wfsdept/courses/WL%20412/Spring%202005.htm

Scroll down that page until you come to "Mar 14-16 Condition Indices." Click on "Mar 14-16" and you'll find the handout that I used for my fisheries management class last spring. It has all those pesky equations, but the final four pages are the standards for black crappie, bluegill, northern pike, and largemouth bass in table format. Those should get you started. If you need tables for other species, let me know. I have tables for quite a few fish, but not all. I can e-mail you other tables you might want.

I did calculate the Wr values for Cecil's two brookies. After all, we better get this thread back to him, eh? I don't know how reliable the standard weight equation is for large brookies. However, his 19 incher (pictured) has a Wr of 140, while the 21.5 incher has a Wr of 126. :-)


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