Went on an annual fishing trip with a bunch of buddies last weekend. The theme revolves more about what's in the cooler than what's in the water, but I always bring my gear! Floated the upper Potomac upriver of Romney, WV. After catching countless small bass, I landed this slab! Didn't have a ruler or scale (rented canoe). Put the picture in my engineering package and after measuring my hand and scaling - the average gives me 23.4". My previous PB is 22". This beast's tail was the same size as my hand! Can anyone give me an estimate on the weight? Felt like 4-5 lb, but I don't have a feel for SMB (mostly only weigh LMB with the scale on my boat).

From my trips and one of my buddies, this year has been great on both the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers - far better than the past 3-5 years.

Congrats bud. Looks like a nice one. Can't give you any ideas on the weight though sorry.

if u can do a guesstimate on the girth of the fish u can use the fish weight calculator and will give u some type of idea

There are many more knowledgeable about smallies than me, but my guess would be like you, between 4-5. Nice fish though!

Jeff

Nice fish, what type lure did you catch it with?

Nice fish man is prob guess 4.8

What were you using and were you catching smallies all day?

I don't know about the weight either, but she's a beautiful fish!

Didn't seem like much action going on for the first hour or two. Then, weightless senkos came to the rescue. I suspect my buddy and I caught over 60 bass for a full day. Haven't had a Potomac or Shenandoah day like that in 4-5 years for sure. Aside from the one fish, nothing probably over 13-14".