Funny how us Southerners consider any fish under 2 pounds a dink  .

2 lbs is about what I was thinking too.  I don't tournament fish though.

My friends and i call any small bass 10' or less a "buck bass " dont ask me why.... no one i know calls the little ones "dinks"

We do call small bass dinks in south Florida. Any under 10 to 12 inches are dinks.

Right now we are catching a lot of dinks. It won't be long before the bigger ones come out to play on a regular basis. I'm having fun as long as something tugs on my line.

We call them dinks ,minnows , or babies....under 2 lbs.

Under a pound.

So it's near unanimous then, any largemouth under 12 inches is a dink. All pretty good opinions if you ask me, and on the flip side, bass that are 14" to 17" or 2lbs and higher are decent bass in my opinion, as they have begun to "fill out" once that threshold is reached, as long as they are healthy and feeding well they start getting that "thickness" you see from quality bass.

Also when conditions are less than ideal, especially for novice, less experinced fisherman, 1.5lbers are nice quality in my book.

2 lbs is about what I was thinking too. I don't tournament fish though.

Fish one...that day when you are 1 fish shy with 1hr to go you will sell your soul for the fifth fish! You wont care if it 12 inches so long as it keeps lol...then there will be days where you cant cull the little bugger lol

I consider it any thing under 12 inches

Anything under 13" mouth open , tail swept on a wil-E-go board.. But my ave small fish these days is around 3+ lbs. (targeting Big only)

<12"

I call any largemouth 12" and less a dink.

Anything under a pound.

I think 12 inches or less

anything under 18 inches

If it ain't a keeper its a dink!

Spot on!

_{Anything under 10" here in Ohio is a dink. if it is just under 12" we refer to them as "small" or "little" ones. those just over 12" are "squeekers", and all those 18" or more we check our maps because we might be in KY.}

I'd actually never heard the term dink before I got on this forum. Based on the replies its 10-12". I've called fish shorter than that a lot of things. Gotta respect them all though. She's gotta be 9" before she can be 24". I'll take a dink over being shutout any day of the week. I think I'm going to start calling them up and comers.

Until I first heard the term being used by fishermen, my understanding was 'dink' was a reference to one's male part.  My assumption after hearing it used when fishing was that a dink was anything shorter than that person's 'dink' until a guy I was fishing with caught a 14in. bass and refered to it as a dink!  On a good day I don't even get to double digits, even in my dreams.  To this day, I never use the term and you can guess why.  (can you say LIDS?)

 

I dont use the term "dink" but i call fish under a pound "chips"