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What is the best scales to buy.Need some that will weigh maybe 15-20 lbs(if needed) and still be accurate for smaller fish like crappie & bluegills the smaller 1-2 lb range.I got a pair a rapalas for xmas after weighing maybe 40-50 different fishes and different weights they seemed to not be accurate on smaller fish under 4-5 lbs.I like to find sime that would be accurate for all smaller freshwater fish.
I like my Rapala hand scales pretty good for the money. You can search Google or Yahoo. They make a million different types of scales. Just depends on what you are wanting to pay for a set. Some of the postal and food scales are highly accurate down to a fine tooth comb. I'd just try and make sure that whatever you get is somewhat waterproof. Like I said it just depends on how accurate and what you are willing to spend.
Rapalas are the best multiuse scales I have found, but they are still not accurate on smaller fish. I use postal scales for crappie when culling for tournaments and on larger bluegill/shellcracker.
I can't argue with my rapala scales...they are the cheaper version, "sprotsman" model I think they call them and I weighed a lot household items that had the weight posted on the container and they were pretty doggone close, dead on most of the time actually.
I like my Rapala 15 pound model. Easy to use, back light for nighttime, memory, more accurate on the smaller fish than the 50 pound model. And if I catch a fish that's over 15 pounds and it breaks my scales, so what!!!
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Eddie
Ditto on the Rapala 15 lb. scales.........I compared objects of different weights (from 1 lb. up to 5 lbs.) that I weighed on some commercial calibrated digital scales and then the Rapala, and it was 1 oz. difference in the Rapala and the commercial scales at 4.5 lbs. That's pretty doggone accurate;)Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiebhome
I'll have to pick one of those up. I smashed my set of Berkly 50# scales when they were off by 7 ounces the day of the tournament....
Got one just like it, but it goes to 20, I think. Check it out once in a while and ain't failed me yet. I have have small weights for powder weighin and I have checked it from 1 ounce all the way through 3 pounds, ounce by ounce, never more than 1 ounce off.Quote:
Originally Posted by luvjign
I have a berkly 50 pound model and have had good luck with it. hung a 6 ounce bank sinker on it and it was right on the money. CF