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May 22, 2013
Why Do Kiwis Measure Trout in Pounds?
By Tim Romano
New Zealand might just be one of the best places on earth to sight fish for huge wild trout. It's more like hunting than fishing there.
The fish you see here is legitimately my largest, wild, river-caught trout on a fly rod. It was ten pounds almost exactly and was caught on the south island of New Zealand.
In NZ they typically measure trout by weight and not by length, like many of us here do. Here's the funny thing...New Zealand uses the Metric system, but every Kiwi we ran into used pounds to measure their fish. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the rest of the country went with metric measurements while anglers used the imperial system. Then I thought about it a little harder. This fish would have been about 4.5 kilograms. I simply think they use pounds because it just sounds bigger.
Anglers are a funny bunch and deal with fish sizes in many different ways. Anyone run into this phenomenon or anything like it anywhere else?
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Comments (8)
Mine I measure in inches. Last trout I caught was 7". And that was the distance between its eyes.
Dangle: I tried to think of something funny to compliment your wit, but I couldn't because it's just that good!
Iwould love to land one of these giants!
Don't know if it's a similar stubborn streak in NZ but in the British corner of the Commonwealth, many don't take kindly to having a European system of weights and measures forced upon them when they already have a perfectly good system of miles, pounds etc, whose units sound far better to the ear than the ghastly 'kilogramme' and 'kilometre'.
Cynics would call it a propaganda bid to persuade us that we are all part of a United States of Europe but I couldn't possibly comment.
"The fish you see here is legitimately my largest, wild, river-caught trout on a fly rod."
Go to the Niagara and change that.
Shane...and you are sure that is NOT an Atlantic Salmon?
Virtually NO physical difference between an Atlantic, and a Brown Trout. Only DNA evidence if that is even so.
Why do Kiwis measure trout in pounds?
Cause they can.
Look at that fish, and now the one Deeter is holding up identifying it as an Atlantic Salmon. Same spotting. Only difference is this one is darker because it has been in freshwater. Deeter's Atlantic will start to turn the color of this one, and darker the longer it is in freshwater, and appear to look exactly like a Brown Trout. And both Anadromous Brown Trout, and Atlantic Salmon appear in the same regional waters. This one no doubt was a resident Brown Trout. May have returned to a lake however, and then back to the river to spawn. I don't know the situation of this fish.
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Mine I measure in inches. Last trout I caught was 7". And that was the distance between its eyes.
Dangle: I tried to think of something funny to compliment your wit, but I couldn't because it's just that good!
Iwould love to land one of these giants!
Don't know if it's a similar stubborn streak in NZ but in the British corner of the Commonwealth, many don't take kindly to having a European system of weights and measures forced upon them when they already have a perfectly good system of miles, pounds etc, whose units sound far better to the ear than the ghastly 'kilogramme' and 'kilometre'.
Cynics would call it a propaganda bid to persuade us that we are all part of a United States of Europe but I couldn't possibly comment.
"The fish you see here is legitimately my largest, wild, river-caught trout on a fly rod."
Go to the Niagara and change that.
Shane...and you are sure that is NOT an Atlantic Salmon?
Virtually NO physical difference between an Atlantic, and a Brown Trout. Only DNA evidence if that is even so.
Why do Kiwis measure trout in pounds?
Cause they can.
Look at that fish, and now the one Deeter is holding up identifying it as an Atlantic Salmon. Same spotting. Only difference is this one is darker because it has been in freshwater. Deeter's Atlantic will start to turn the color of this one, and darker the longer it is in freshwater, and appear to look exactly like a Brown Trout. And both Anadromous Brown Trout, and Atlantic Salmon appear in the same regional waters. This one no doubt was a resident Brown Trout. May have returned to a lake however, and then back to the river to spawn. I don't know the situation of this fish.
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