Fishing Scales
 

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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:D

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