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    Posted: 15 Nov 2009 at 10:49am
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I though it was around the 20kg mark but will stand corrected. Went 115cm nose to fork and by 60cm round the girth. Caught on the surfcaster using a bit of squid, 5/0 gammie circle and 40lb BM tough trace. I'm told it took me about 1/2 hour to get in.
Finally got a copy. Here's a picture of the fish in question

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Nice Jw, Sounds like you will be pretty close to that mark. Not sure of a table but that sounds about right from me. Bloody exciting to catch those buggers from a boat but i can only imagine all the things going thru your mind from the rocks, No wonder you lost your sence of time. Nice catch.
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An equation I got from the Mfish website gives 17.9kg for 115cm length (no girth in the equation).
There is a table on here that uses length and girth, but starts at 173cm/66cm. Also says add 10% for a well conditioned fish.
17.9+10% = 19.69 = 20kg
 
Someone on here was asking for data a while back, I think to generate their own equation. Hopefully they will see this and be able to help.
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Big smile That great! Thanks for that. It was in reasonable but not good condition - I've seen fatter so I think between 17.9 -20kg is going to be about right.
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Of course in 6 months time it will have grown a few kilos and taken me an hour to get in Wink
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In a few years it will be HUGE ...

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"The older you get the better you used to be!"
 
He had me there ...
(and that was more than 10 years ago now - imagine how good I would be if I was telling those stories today)
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Nice fish JW and top effort from the rocks mate.Clap
 
Here is the formula for imperial measurements;
 
Girth x Girth X Length /800
 
So approximate inch figures below, tranposed from your metric girth and length back to imperial, but accurate calculation ;
 
23.62 inches x 23.62 inches x 42.276 = 25263.83/800
 
= 31.58 pounds or 14.35 kilograms
 
Hope that helps, and remember the calculation is a guide and reference only it is not absolute and accurate as all fish have different condition, a fat fish would weigh more for example.
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Can vary greatly with kings depending on condition. Have seen 110-115cm fish varying between 14 and just over 22kg.
 
Got onel last year measured 120cm from memory and in good nick so called it for 20kg but in reality I will never know (or really care TBH)
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18 to 20 kg would be close, great effort on a surfcaster, it would of had a good bend on.
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Sounds like an awesome fish off the bricks mate, yeah round 18k's i would say.  have seen much shorter fish go more than that though, this time of year seems to be a real variation in condition and weight 
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from the 160 fish that were entered into the yeehaa kingi comp a few were weighed as well as measured,your fish is in between 17kgs and 18kgs,the majority of fish we had entered were around  that length 
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was in ok condition. 18 probably about right
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Originally posted by Cigar Cigar wrote:

An equation I got from the Mfish website gives 17.9kg for 115cm length (no girth in the equation).
There is a table on here that uses length and girth, but starts at 173cm/66cm. Also says add 10% for a well conditioned fish.
17.9+10% = 19.69 = 20kg
 
Someone on here was asking for data a while back, I think to generate their own equation. Hopefully they will see this and be able to help.
Link comes up with HTTP Error 404.11 - not found - could you check again please.
thanks
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Nice fish off the bricks mate whatever the exact weight may have been Clap
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Go going of the rocks nice fish.
 
this one was 112.5cm and 19.8kg to give idea,i take the length and wight of all the kings i get
 
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Originally posted by Moggy Moggy wrote:

Originally posted by Cigar Cigar wrote:

An equation I got from the Mfish website gives 17.9kg for 115cm length (no girth in the equation).
There is a table on here that uses length and girth, but starts at 173cm/66cm. Also says add 10% for a well conditioned fish.
17.9+10% = 19.69 = 20kg
 
Someone on here was asking for data a while back, I think to generate their own equation. Hopefully they will see this and be able to help.
Link comes up with HTTP Error 404.11 - not found - could you check again please.
thanks
Try this one..
 
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Here is the formula for imperial measurements;
 
Girth x Girth X Length /800
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Try this one..
 
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Brilliant thanks didnt know that was even their.
good yard stick
 
 
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JW was that kingi caught just north of Auckland??
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Originally posted by Moggy Moggy wrote:

 
Try this one..
 
 
Brilliant thanks didnt know that was even their.
good yard stick
 
 
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Not much good for kingys though,starts at 1.7m in length. That is marlin weigh formula.
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