While out fishing today I started wondering, how big does a fish have to be to not be considered a dink anymore?Is it about length or weight? Is there a certain size written in stone, or is this a casual term where the size is based on your individual opinion?  In your opinion is the fish in the attached picture a dink? In my opinion its not, but just barely. I consider a fish 2lbs or less to be a dink, that fish was like 2 lbs. 11oz. so he just made the cutoff for me. there is no right or wrong answer as far as I am concerned. I just want to hear everyone's perspective.

My opinion of a dink changed when I moved to Florida.  

 

It use to be anything less than a pound....but now.....I'd say your definition of 2 #s or under is a dink would fit,  

 

At 3 #s, the fish starts to become a "nice fish".  

No not a dink to me but like under 14" is

In our trail, it has to be 14" to be weighed in. So anything under 14" is a dink, lol.

Anything under 3lb is considered to be a dink IMO

It's not a dink anymore as soon as it swims out of sight and I began to tell the amazing catch story to someone else of how it blew up all over my topwater bait. Just ask anybody I've ever told a fish story to, they'll tell you I've never caught a dink in my whole life.

If my wife wont take its picture.

2lbs and under.

Depend on if I'm fun fishing or in a tourney. I've had a 5 fish limit of 12inch line burners that have won me money

A dink?  I think maybe  some of ya'll may be pulling our legs. LOL

Come on. any fish over the legal length is a nice fish. Just have fun catching them.I don't qualify each fish with an ego trip. Fishing is a jerk on one side of a line waiting for a jerk on the other side.

A Dink is a sub-legal bass; but there's a large white space between Dink and Toad.

A Runt is a bass that's shorter than the lure  

 

Roger

im glad i have the opinion that "if it has a head and a tail, its good."  even if a fish is small at least something is still biting, you could be catching nothing instead.

I call "dink" anything under legal.  2-> "2lbers". 3-> "3lbers" etc.  Over 3 -> "nice fish".

Agreed... if it's legal it's no longer a dink.

If it's shorter than 15", it's a dink. I'd say if it's short of being a keeper, but quite a few of our lakes have 18" length limits and that's getting to be a 3+ pound fish, which is pretty solid fish around here. 

Depending where one lives and what other fish are targeted, for me catching a bass that looks to be about 3# is just ho-hum.  I have the same ho-hum feeling about a 10# snook or a 30" barracuda, nothing to be doing a cartwheel over.  Fun to catch yeah, but they're dinks.

If the mouth ain't bigger than your fist, it's a dink

There is no such thing as a "dink"...........................well, except for  Dinky, formerly WMDinKY.

 

They are pre-trophy fish.  It's all in the perspective.

I agree Rhino. There isn't one trophy bass out there that wasn't a dink at one time in its life.

15 inches is enough to keep me entertained as long as there is a prospect of a bigger fish, but to me a bass is a "nice" one at 17" and above.

A dink is the one that got away.

When I lip em with my fist instead of my thumb!

If I set the hook on a fish 30 ft away and the hook set essentially boat flips the fish, then that's a Dink

12" is the min. keeper length here. So less than 12" = dink. But that dosen't mean I consider a 12" fish anything special...........it's just a small keeper, they don't get "decent one" status untill they are over 2.5 lbs, and "big" is refrained from until they are 4+.