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What would you qualify as a "dink" 2024


fishing user avatarQuinn reply : 

I finally have a pic for my avitar with me and a "keeper" sized bass (MO law min. 12").

It was 13" may be 1 lb.

Caught in a private lake, and I release all fish there.

I look really happy and I was! This is not what I am after (5+ lbs some day) but I caught some bass.

What do you all qualify as a "dink" Length or weight considered???

P.S. Sorry I such an ugly sum buck :)


fishing user avatarhamer08 reply : 

12-18" Slot limits have changed my nomenclature a little. Now a dink is <8-9", a "keeper" (to be eaten) is 9-12". Everything else is C & R.


fishing user avatarJoel W reply : 

under 12 inches and or less then 1 lb.  


fishing user avatarRaul reply : 

Anything under 3 pounds is a dink. :D


fishing user avatarTheBeast reply : 
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Anything I catch... :-[

Beat me to it.  

I was gonna paraphrase Low_Budget and say by definition anything Burley catches.   ;D


fishing user avatarbass wrangler569 reply : 

Anything under the legal minimum, or a fish that is legal, but really small for that particularly lake.


fishing user avatarKYbass1276 reply : 

My personal definition of a dink is anything under 5 pounds.  


fishing user avatarBassinBoy reply : 

A bass is a bass.  


fishing user avatarThe Rooster reply : 

For me, I consider anything below 12" to be a dink because that's the legal size limit for my state in KY, but the 4 local lakes I fish ALL require 15" keeping sizes.  I still call a 12 incher a keeper.......but I always wondered what everyone else would think of this.  Guess I know now.  

Hey, it'd be different if I caught anything over 14" consistantly but all last year I only had one fish on I KNOW was a keeper........and it came unbuttoned at boatside.   :'(


fishing user avatarKy_Lake_Dude reply : 

Around here most lakes its a 15in size limit so to me a dink is anything less than that


fishing user avatarBassin_Fin@tic reply : 
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My personal definition of a dink is anything under 5 pounds.

No offense given here, but wow! I live in Florida and fish mostly small lakes and ponds pretty unpressured and I would consider a dink anything less than 2 lbs,and thats high for some of the tournament guys who just need to barely make the length limit.

 How many 5 lb bass can be caught in Kentucky a year?I used to live in Ohio and you'd be lucky to get 1-3 a year LOL


fishing user avatarBankbeater reply : 

A fish so small that some wiseguy asks if that is your trailer.


fishing user avatarJohn J. reply : 

A true dink is whatever the size the individual fisherman defines it as. IMO, a dink is anything that:

1.) Skids across the water when I am reeling it in,

2.) Is only a few inches bigger than the lure I am using,

3.) Has a mouth that I can't even put one finger in it!

In a tournament, a dink is defined as a fish that doesn't have a big affect on your total weight in the tournament.


fishing user avatargrimlin reply : 
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Dam It No Keepers ;D

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;D LBH pretty well summed it up.I think a keeper bass is a legal bass.Here it's 14'' to be legal.Anything under i would consider dinks.


fishing user avatarGrey Wolf reply : 
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My personal definition of a dink is anything under 5 pounds.

Wow we're all livin in DINKVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!




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