Best Culling System?

[bgallim105]

Hey Guys, Had a tourney this weekend and Cault like 30+ fish (great day) . I've got scales, culling floats and a marker & board to keep track of fish. Catching this many fish this got to be a headache and took lots of time. I don't like the marker and pad to keep track of the fish. After a while of erasing weights & rewriting things just got a little hectic.
I want to get a good set of scales that when I catch and weigh a fish it assigns it a color or number then when I catch fish number 6 it automatically tells me which one to get rid of. Rather than looking for the smallest fish on my note pad and eraseing it and writing the new weight. I know there are a couple of these out there. Any suggestions?

[bgallim105]

I am thinking about.....

XTOOLS PRO SERIES GRIPNWEIGH DIGITAL SCALE CULL SYSTEM

http://cgi.ebay.com/XTOOLS-PRO...wItem

anyone use this? If I get this one I will replace the clips on the bouys with the metal hook type.

[Bushwacker]

I have the XTools Pro Series just like you are looking at and I did replace the clips with metal clips. I absolutely love it. I really takes the guess work out of culling. Just press the on button, grip the fish, and it tells you exactly which one to cull. At first I did believe it on the first few close culls, so I use a balance board, it was right every single time. I trust it completely, unless I have my tourney partner putting the bouys on the fish. One tourney we had an 8 fish limit and were culling and it said cull #6. That was our biggest fish by far. I couldn't figure out what was going on and he said, oh, they have numbers on top

[bgallim105]

Thanks, One question about it. How is the gripping part of the scale. The ones I have used in the past have had a hook on them. Is the "gripper" strong enough to hold up a large fish?

[Javelin389]

I had a 5.5 on one recently. Held it pretty good. Now I wouldn't go weighing it over the side of the boat either, but I wouldn't do that with a hook-type scale either.

[Bushwacker]

I have weighed up to 17lb pike with mine and it held them fine. It looks and feels like it is kind of light, but it actually grips fish very well. I haven't had one bass wiggle out of it. Actually works a lot better than the hook ones in my experience. Don't have to mess around putting another hole in a fish. Just a quick lip grab. Like Jav389 said, I wouldn't weigh any fish over the side of the boat with any scale.