Weigh Your Fish With a Ruler
New York
Fishing
Ever wanted to know the weight of your catch but didn’t have a scale handy or the desire to kill your fish and weigh it on land? For the species listed below, you can get an approximate weight by measuring the fish from the snout to the tip of the tail. These weights are averages taken from fish collected by DEC fish management crews from across the State of New York. Remember, these are averages—fish growth can vary significantly based on a number of factors, including the length of the growing season and food supply.
| Average Weight By Length (in Inches) of Various New York Freshwater Fish Species | |||||||||||||
| Length | Black Crappie | Bluegill | Yellow Perch | Smallmouth Bass | Largemouth Bass | Brook Trout | Rainbow Trout | Brown Trout | Lake Trout | Walleye | Chain Pickerel | Northern Pike | Muskellunge |
| 5 | 1 oz | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 3 oz | 1 oz | |||||||||||
| 7 | 4 oz | 2 oz | |||||||||||
| 8 | 7 oz | 3 oz | |||||||||||
| 9 | 7 oz | 10 oz | 5 oz | ||||||||||
| 10 | 9 oz | 13 oz | 7 oz | 6 oz | |||||||||
| 11 | 13 oz | 10 oz | 8 oz | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 lb 1 oz | 13 oz | 13 oz | 14 oz | 11 oz | 10 oz | 10 oz | ||||||
| 13 | 1 lb 6 oz | 15 oz | 1 lb 1 oz | 1 lb 2 oz | 14 oz | 12 oz | 13 oz | ||||||
| 14 | 1 lb 12 oz | 1 lb 2 oz | 1 lb 5 oz | 1 lb 7 oz | 1 lb 2 oz | 1 lb 0 oz | 1 lb 1 oz | ||||||
| 15 | 1 lb 5 oz | 1 lb 10 oz | 1 lb 13 oz | 1 lb 6 oz | 1 lb 3 oz | 1 lb 5 oz | 1 lb 0 oz | 1 lb 1 oz | 11 oz | ||||
| 16 | 1 lb 15 oz | 2 lb 4 oz | 1 lb 11 oz | 1 lb 7 oz | 1 lb 9 oz | 1 lb 4 oz | 1 lb 4 oz | 14 oz | |||||
| 17 | 2 lb 9 oz | 2 lb 12 oz | 2 lb 0 oz | 1 lb 12 oz | 1 lb 14 oz | 1 lb 8 oz | 1 lb 9 oz | 1 lb 1 oz | |||||
| 18 | 3 lb 2 oz | 3 lb 5 oz | 2 lb 7oz | 2 lb 1 oz | 2 lb 4 oz | 1 lb 13 oz | 1 lb 14 oz | 1 lb 4 oz | 1 lb 4 oz | ||||
| 19 | 3 lb 5 oz | 3 lb 15 oz | 2 lb 14 oz | 2 lb 7 oz | 2 lb 11 oz | 2 lb 3 oz | 2 lb 4 oz | 1 lb 8 oz | 1 lb 7 oz | ||||
| 20 | 3 lb 14 oz | 4 lb 10 oz | 3 lb 6 oz | 2 lb 14 oz | 3 lb 2 oz | 2 lb 9 oz | 2 lb 10 oz | 1 lb 12 oz | 1 lb 11 oz | ||||
| 21 | 4 lb 8 oz | 5 lb 7 oz | 3 lb 15 oz | 3 lb 5 oz | 3 lb 10 oz | 3 lb 0 oz | 3 lb 1 oz | 2 lb 1 oz | 2 lb 1 oz | ||||
| 22 | 5 lb 3 oz | 6 lb 6 oz | 3 lb 13 oz | 4 lb 3 oz | 3 lb 8 oz | 3 lb 9 oz | 2 lb 6 oz | 2 lb 6 oz | |||||
| 23 | 4 lb 6 oz | 4 lb 12 oz | 4 lb 0 oz | 4 lb 1 oz | 2 lb 12 oz | 2 lb 9 oz | |||||||
| 24 | 5 lb 0 oz | 5 lb 7 oz | 4 lb 9 oz | 4 lb 11 oz | 3 lb 3 oz | 2 lb 15 oz | |||||||
| 25 | 5 lb 11 oz | 6 lb 3 oz | 5 lb 4 oz | 5 lb 5 oz | 3 lb 10 oz | 3 lb 5 oz | |||||||
| 26 | 6 lb 6 oz | 6 lb 15 oz | 5 lb 15 oz | 6 lb 0 oz | 4 lb 1 oz | 3 lb 11 oz | |||||||
| 27 | 7 lb 2 oz | 7 lb 13 oz | 6 lb 11 oz | 6 lb 12 oz | 4 lb 10 oz | 4 lb 2 oz | |||||||
| 28 | 8 lb 0 oz | 8 lb 12 oz | 7 lb 8 oz | 7 lb 10 oz | 4 lb 9 oz | ||||||||
| 29 | 8 lb 14 oz | 9 lb 11 oz | 8 lb 7 oz | 8 lb 9 oz | 5 lb 1 oz | ||||||||
| 30 | 9 lb 14 oz | 10 lb 12 oz | 9 lb 6 oz | 9 lb 8 oz | 5 lb 10 oz | 7 lb 4 oz | |||||||
| 31 | 10 lb 7 oz | 6 lb 3 oz | 8 lb 1 oz | ||||||||||
| 32 | 11 lb 8 oz | 6 lb 13 oz | 8 lb 15 oz | ||||||||||
| 33 | 12 lb 11 oz | 7 lb 7 oz | 9 lb 15 oz | ||||||||||
| 34 | 14 lb 0 oz | 8 lb 2 oz | 11 lb 0 oz | ||||||||||
| 35 | 15 lb 5 oz | 8 lb 13 oz | 12 lb 1 oz | ||||||||||
| 36 | 9 lb 10 oz | 13 lb 4 oz | |||||||||||
| 37 | 10 lb 6 oz | 14 lb 8 oz | |||||||||||
| 38 | 11 lb 4 oz | 15 lb 14 oz | |||||||||||
| 39 | 12 lb 2 oz | 17 lb 5 oz | |||||||||||
| 40 | 13 lb 1 oz | 18 lb 13 oz | |||||||||||
| 41 | 20 lb 7 oz | ||||||||||||
| 42 | 22 lb 2 oz | ||||||||||||
| 43 | 23 lb 15 oz | ||||||||||||
| 44 | 25 lb 14 oz | ||||||||||||
| 45 | 27 lb 14 oz | ||||||||||||
| 46 | 30 lb 0 oz | ||||||||||||
| 47 | 32 lb 3 oz | ||||||||||||
| 48 | 34 lb 8 oz | ||||||||||||
| 49 | 37 lb 0 oz | ||||||||||||
| 50 | 39 lb 9 oz | ||||||||||||
| 51 | 42 lb 4 oz | ||||||||||||
| How Old is My Bass? | ||||||||||||||||
| Average Age (in years) by Length of Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass in New York State | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |
| Age | Smallmouth Bass | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Largemouth Bass | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | |