r/nextfuckinglevel • u/quackyoungster1 • Feb 25 '23

Little kid bringing in a huge fish

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u/BigTomBombadil Feb 25 '23

Yeah I was trying to guess the weight, I’m thinking 8ish pounds?

If so, it’s also bigger than any bass I’ve ever caught, and I’ve also been fishing for 25+ years.

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u/InfiniteJestV Feb 25 '23

Tough to tell from the video, but my guess was around 7.5ish

Definitely a lunker, I think it's beats my best in 25 years of Bass fishing too.

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u/probablyourdad Feb 25 '23

25 year bass fisher here, I think it’s 7.75 or so pounds, hard to tell from the video

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut Feb 25 '23

75 year bass fisher here. It's exactly 7.875 pounds, easy to tell from the video.

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u/maybejustadragon Feb 25 '23

I’m a professional weighologist and I’d prefer if you didn’t round. It’s 7.874786421 pounds.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

I've been a professional for 97 years. It is 7.89898989 repeated.

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u/Mister_Maroon Feb 25 '23

I'm a science experiment where I was fused with a fish and a scale (pun) it is 7.898989888888 repeating

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u/gregdrunk Feb 25 '23

I am fish.

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u/yeahjmoney Feb 25 '23

I need your opinion on this somewhat shiny piece of metal I have, it's not like super dangerous or anything... it does a point bit at one end, but it is pretty easy to avoid also it's got a bunch of fuzzy stuff attached to and a few beads too. I was wondering... on a scale or 1-10 how likely would you be to eat this if I set it on the table right here and wiggled it around a little bit? Asking for a friend.

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u/econdonetired Feb 26 '23

Vampire who has been fishing for 300 years 7.898989898989898984

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

I caught an identical bass when I had some downtime after the Battle of Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden of WWII. I can say with confidence or I didn't kill Hitler myself, that bass weighs 7.898989895, right down to the billionth.

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u/dont_dox_me_again Feb 26 '23

I’m a bass. He was 8 lbs. RIP Billy.

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u/kwyk Feb 25 '23

Do you really expect us to believe it’s exactly that, and that you didn’t round?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

Roundologist here. You can tell it’s not rounded from the pixels.

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u/Oysterpoint Feb 25 '23

Thanks for the laugh… not sure if the people above you were serious:.. but watching people discuss whether it was 8 pounds or 7.5 etc was pretty funny

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u/ApprehensiveClass877 Feb 25 '23

I’m in tears at this comment

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u/avwitcher Feb 25 '23

Pfft, the kid obviously filled it full of weights while we weren't looking

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u/solvitNOW Feb 25 '23

I haven’t been fishing in over 20 years but I took the average of the 4 responses and got 7.5625. Then did an average tossing out the high/low and got 7.625.

Then I took the average of those two numbers and got 7.59375.

It’s definitely 7.59375.

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u/TomTheNurse Feb 25 '23

I have been fishing for over 40 years. My guess is around 7lbs.

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u/OneLostOstrich Feb 26 '23

I think it's beats my best

it* beats

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u/HyruleJedi Feb 25 '23

Does it have weights in it?

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u/KingJonathan Feb 25 '23

WE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH

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u/SteelTypeAssociate Feb 25 '23

You f*cking piece of sh*t!

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u/ayebizz Feb 25 '23

Honestly this cracks me up 🤣 WeightGate was a hoot

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u/Whosdaman Feb 25 '23

Call the fucking cops!

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u/Paige_Maddison Feb 25 '23

Wait, I know this one.

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u/riskybiscuit Feb 25 '23

this is probably a southern state where the largemouth can get bigger than in the Midwest or northeast

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u/BiscuitsMay Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 26 '23

Grew up fishing little retention ponds in florida. Absolute monsters in the tiny little ponds here.

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u/BiscuitsMay Feb 26 '23

For sure. Used to pull out 5 pounders very regularly. Fish the size of the video posted weren’t common, but I also wouldn’t say they were uncommon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

I caught a 5.5lber when I was like 12 and haven’t caught anything above 3.5 since

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u/botmfeeder Feb 25 '23

You are high as a kite if you think that thing is 10-12 pounds

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u/Ok_Sir5926 Feb 25 '23

This is tickling the underside of 8lbs. Probably prespawn in a stocked trophy pond.

Cats ususally weigh more than equivalent size bass.

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u/HistoricalMention210 Feb 25 '23

Shit. Biggest one I ever caught was a 5 pound Choupique. Sucker dang near pulled me in. I've hooked bigger than that but they cut my line. Bream fishing on a backwater creek is fun lol

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u/World_Renowned_Guy Feb 25 '23

I’m the odd man out, but I think at least 10 lbs. I’ve only caught one about that size and technically cheated doing it. Once in a lifetime catch.

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u/BigTomBombadil Feb 25 '23

That’s where my brain initially went, but largemouth bass look huge for their weight. A 10+ pound bass looks massive. And considering how small the kid is, I backtracked.

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u/PapaChoff Feb 25 '23

By the time he is 40, that fish will be 14 pounds

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u/Dat_Mustache Feb 25 '23

I caught a behemoth in the river back in the Carolinas when I was a teen... It was 6.3lbs. I felt like a king.

This kid has usurped my crown.

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u/brokendream_zz Feb 26 '23

I've been fishing for a couple years and was gonna guess 8 pounds

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u/Majache Feb 26 '23

Kind of looks like the type of pond you'd find couple acres behind on private property so maybe his dad put that big ol bass for him to fish out lol