There's a diver underneath the water putting fish on the hook. That is funny enough by itself that no comment is needed. These shows are taped over a couple days, and the dinks and pickerel are edited out, so all you get are the good looking fish.

Easy Glenn sorry I was not trying to offend you. I was just quoting what someone else had said about divers and my father use to tell me the same thing when I was little. I highly doubt that's actually true though. I am positive all of them are very excellent fishermen and are more then capable of catching there own fish.

Sometimes it's just best to let hear say fade away quietly.

My father in law always says its divers putting fish on id like to see divers man handling sharks and muskie underwater to hook them in the mouth with all them teeth. He says the same bout hunting shows that the bucks are released from a pen right under the stand. Rigged hunting shows are a lot more believeable then fishing that's for sure especially pike and muskie shows or deep see shows.

When you resort to a mechanical device, you're at the mercy of the scale's integrity and up-to-date calibration

Fortunately, the bass pros on television are fully capable of estimating the weight of a bass within an ounce or two.

Roger

When I was in the scrap business I could look at a pile of scrap, filled drum, laying on a pallet or any other way and have a very close estimate of the weight, simply because I did it every single day. A person catching fish everyday would be able to estimate their catch even easier, so many less variables, these TV people know exactly what they have. Fishermen by nature tend to embellish the facts, a 2# fish is reported as 5#, 10 fish in an outing is now 20 in an outing......haha.

I've owned a wide variety of scales, from scales that weigh in grams up to truck scales that weigh 100,000#, for the most all were pretty accurate( we knew how to make any scale read what ever we wanted it to, that's a story for another time ). I have an old fishing spring scale laying around the house, must be 50 years old and it's still accurate, I think.