I bought the cheaper version, and love the user interface and fish weighing modes. That said, that thing just does not want to lock a weight in. That thing will bounce around forever vs a rapala scale. I’ve gotta get some more time using it before completely writing it off, but man my cheap rapala scale is about 10x faster and on close fish it’s never been wrong on weight when I put close ones on a beam, only downside is it won’t store weight and I need to use an accu cull board.
2020 Nitro Z20 Pro Package
Originally Posted by Mark Perry
I’m having the same issue with my updated iPhone 14. App crashes every time. I was thinking it was an iOS 17 issue…
way to much tech
Phoenix 919 Merc 225 pro XS
Dang, I didn't know either had a rechargeable battery, I completely missed that in the spec. I want one now.
Interested to hear your thoughts on the culling set, those clips look absolutely massive to me...
I kinda felt the same at first until I compared them to some others. They are average sized but like you said I'm curious as to how they perform. Gonna use them in about a week during a 2 day championship so we shall see.
you can buy it seperately for 20 and use with the cheaper scale
Or just buy rechargeable aa batteries. Honestly with a scale it’s not like you are going to be constantly burning through batteries.
2020 Nitro Z20 Pro Package
Every thing that I have bought made by Bubba has been high quality and works great.
I wouldn't want me to be in charge of the scale,I've been known to hit the wrong chit from time to time ,o chit I just cleared that one crap but I like my cheap one
Not much to screw up with this one.
Its fat fingers that's my excuse in texting misspelled words or computer mishaps with the wrong buttons.
Had a chance to use the scale and the culling tags during a tournament. I am a fan. Scale us incredibly easy to use. It ended up being pretty well known the money with tbe tournament scakes at weigh in. The culling tags were great. Stayed on the fish just fine. Easy, one hundred operation too. I think my partner is impressed enough with both that he is buying both the scale abd the tags as well.
Dredging up an old thread because I have the exact opposite experience as this. I like the scale. It's very user friendly, but it isn't inline the tournament scales we've weighed in on. Mine weigh lower than tournament scales, and I'm okay with that. I crappie fish, but I'm usually off by 0.40-0.50lb when weights reach double digits. This past weekend I had 10.22 on my scales and tournament scales said 10.75. Last month I was off around 0.40. I reweigh fish and record my weights on an Accu-Cull Cull board, and go with best out of three or average of the three if its a little choppy and having trouble getting a good consistent lock.
Last month I had a 2.12lb big fish on my scales and tourny scales said 2.21. It's not a big deal as long as they're consistent, and I don't mind as long as Im lower than tourny scales, but I'd rather be accurate. One of my buddies has a Brecknell like MLF uses and he's usually withing a couple hundredths of tourny scales. Of course I use a cull beam if I have fish within a couple hundredths of one another as well.
All that to say, am I the only one having these issues?
I noticed that few fish that were weighed again at the request of the anglers came up different weight. That was concerning to me. DC and Omori come to mind.
I think consistency is all you can ask for
My scale will be very close to one tournament scale and under at another organizations tournament scale
Each scale was calibrated at different times and environments
You’re just looking to bring the most weight to the scale and as long as it can do that you’re in business
"The handicapped angler"
I've never had a scale that matched the tournament scale. Too many variables. The main one is that they will tare the scale with an extra weigh bag, then have another bag weighing fish that is wet. Obviously, you never want to be first to weigh in.
I have never cared that much if the weight matches the tournament as long as the scale is consistent and I can cull with it. Every time I have checked with a beam, it has been correct.
As long as it's consistent, but we don't use bags and the basket is usually wiped out after each person weighs. I suppose it's within acceptable perimeters if you take into account Bubba says +/-0.3%, and assuming the tourny scales are dead on, the water weight variances could attribute to another 1% or so, bringing it to the consistent 4-5% out of whack they are with tourny scales. I've only compared them to two different trails' scales, but they were off by roughly the same percentage each time.
You're gonna get that when weighing on the water in a boat.
And all you would have to do is have a hand full of 1/2 oz weights the fish could easily sallow . And let the cheating begin!
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