Fishing Scales

[Chuck7]

Freinds,
My digital Rapala only works when I'm weighing bags of sugar or flour to calibrate it.LOL When I try ot weight a fish I get 00.00 It don't come on. I went to Walmart this morning and bought a Berkley for 19.98. After buying it I went back to the Gardening Center. I tried weighing a 5 pound bag of fertilizer shewas 4pounds 3 ounces...I tried a 4 pound bag of fertilizer it read 3pounds 3 ounces...I got my money back for the Berkley.

Here is the one I use. The numbers are hard to read but this scale is only a 10.00 Rapala mechanical scale...she has been right on the ounce. Here it is reading a 1 1/2 pound bag of cornmeal at 1 1/2 pounds. The numbers are difficult to read on here but ok in the boat. Poor camera quality here.
c7

[BlackLab]

I use the berkley, and never thought to testit. This is going to interesting, I hope if it's off it weighs heavy [8D].

[mbhutton]

I use the berkley one too. im gonna go and test them now. ill let you know

[Chuck7]

I test mine while in the store so I can get a refund if it's off. Catching bass is tough sometimes and I don't want to record a wrong weight.
C7

[childers]

ya none of the fish i weigh are correct with my berkely digi scale. and im pretty pissed. i found this out earlier this week i belive when we weighed my friends fish andi thought no way is that only 3 something. so we went on bass pro and used their online scale and typed in the sizes of the fish and it was nearly 6 pounds

[Oneshot7]

CHILDER THE ONLINE SCALE ISNT THAT ACCURATE EITHER my berekly scales are pretty accurate caught a 5 lb 6 oz flounder last year and the scales said 5 8 so pretty close

[childers]

maybe you were lucky and got a good one but it was still off 2 oz. that could cost a tourny lost i want mine right as possibe

[Oneshot7]

im not worried about the tourney so much this year next year i will be into it plus most of the tourneys i fish have a weigh in for flounder king mackeral and speckeled trout

[mauser06]

thats funny you guys actually believe store bagged stuff. id believe the scale before i believed bagged goods

take bullets or broadheads for example...guys weight them ALL the time and they come out different weights even from the same box...but are sold as 100grs or whatever they were..

i guess bagged goods are weighed on a scale, then sealed when its correct...but not something id completely trust...

i always wanted a good fish scale just for my own ammusement...never got around to buying one..im a REAL fisherman....i make my numbers up

[childers]

thats what i usually i catch so many i tell what size it is