fish scale

lilbassman · 08-10-2007, 08:55 PM

i am looking for a good scale that i can trust. the last one i had said 16 pound norhtern was 12 pounds.

Chuck7 · 08-11-2007, 01:33 AM

The best one I like it Rapala's mechanical one from Walmart. It's 9.99.
By the way ...welcome to the forum.

coolbrze0 · 08-11-2007, 05:40 AM

Rapala is good, I've got a Berkley digital that works pretty well.

lilbassman · 08-11-2007, 08:55 AM

chuck is it the same on e that is in all of your posts in the tournament

Chuck7 · 08-11-2007, 11:01 AM

Yes sir...I bought the Berkley and tried it out at the store weighing fertilizer , can goods etc..very inconsistant. I bought a 29.00 Rapala digital ...it woud never come on when I had a fish to weigh...I cut open a mechanical Rapala at the store and took a plastic bag and weighed various items...It was very good so I bought it.Yes sir..it's the one I usedto weigh my fish. It's hard to photograph but it's very handy.
It's my favorite so far...If I was you though..Iwouldn't buy a scale from Walmartwith out checking it out.I bought a Berkley..checked it out and returned it the same hour. It was way off.
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lilbassman · 08-11-2007, 04:58 PM

thanks man i have tried different scales and have yet to find one that didn't go screwy whenever i weighed a fish.

childers · 08-11-2007, 07:26 PM

i dont like my 20 dollar berkely digital scale. its always off

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ORIGINAL: coolbrze0

Rapala is good, I've got a Berkley digital that works pretty well.

indianahunter83 · 08-11-2007, 09:14 PM

Spring loaded scales are a bad bad idea. They rust which means scale goes bad. If you are serious about a really good scale get a boga grip with a scale on it. Granted that will set you back 100 bucks. Other than that you should get a digital scale. I find it funny when people say they test their scale by weighing a bag of sand or weight. How do you know that its the bag of sand that isn't the stated weight and not the scale.