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[TNAngler]

I have a queston that confuses me.  Being from the states, I am used to refering to the weight of a fish in pounds.  It seems like Canadians use kilos for most everything else but most reports of weight I hear are in pounds.  Is it just a thing where you are too lazy to try and explain the conversion to the dumb Americans or is that how you actually think about the weight of fish?  I don't think I have ever heard a fish referred to in a metric weight system.

[fisherforever]

I'm old (61) haha. Still use pounds. As HKSR points out - to convert pounds to kilos divide pounds by kilos 8.8lb divided by 2.2 = 4K and to convert kilos to pounds - multiply kilos X 2.2 = pounds. 4K X 2.2lb = 8.8 lb

[salmonrook]

Referring to a fish in pounds is traditional ,we have had the metric system here since the mid seventies.(Its in Europe as well)I learned in grade school and it was new for me .I think you'll find some people when  refering to  weight ,even when purchasing items @ the grocery store,they convert it to pounds . Some grocery products are even sold in pounds still.
 When talking about a 1,2  5 pound fish, I think it has more to do with the length and girth or how big the the fish looks

[HKSR]

I'm old (61) haha. Still use pounds but to covert to metric is easy, just multiply pounds by 2.2 to get kilograms

I think you wanna divide by 2.2, not multiply   

[TNAngler]

Referring to a fish in pounds is traditional ,we have had the metric system here since the mid seventies.(Its in Europe as well)I learned in grade school and it was new for me .I think you'll find some people when  refering to  weight ,even when purchasing items @ the grocery store,they convert it to pounds . Some grocery products are even sold in pounds still.
 When talking about a 1,2  5 pound fish, I think it has more to do with the length and girth or how big the the fish looks

I understand the fisherman that have been fishing around since before the switch.  Is it more that everybody else still does it so newbies conform?  People I have known that have used kilos for everything else still use pounds for fish.

[Tex]

I rarely see anyone here in Canada use kilos for anything - weight of a fish, personal weight, how much does that motor weigh, etc.

[HamidSeshadri]

i think that pounds are easier to work with since they are a smaller unit of weight.
its hard to say 1/2 kilo, 3.5 kilos, but much easier to work with whole numbers, 2lbs 15lbs,..

but if you notice, you ask for your deli meats in grams, never heard anyone asking for anything in ounces..

[TNAngler]

i think that pounds are easier to work with since they are a smaller unit of weight.
its hard to say 1/2 kilo, 3.5 kilos, but much easier to work with whole numbers, 2lbs 15lbs,..

but if you notice, you ask for your deli meats in grams, never heard anyone asking for anything in ounces..

We use ounces, or actually pounds in the US everywhere I have gone.  I want a pound of roast beef, or half pound.

[Tadpole]

  USA is basically the only remaining country  in the World using old imperial system( Liberia and Burma are the only others) and they pay dearly for it. Hubble telescope is an example. There is nothing simpler than decimal system.
 In Canada only people not able to adapt use imperial  system    . New generation like my kids(early 20ties) has no idea about Imperial system as it is not taught  anymore in schools. 

[Sandman]

Yes, and we still use inches for length too. No real reason for it other than it is familiar (our fathers used imperial and their father's did too).  If the gas station did not sell it in litres, we would probably buy gas by the gallon too.  Since there is no one forcing the metric system on the old school fishermen (does Fred's scale weigh in pounds or kilos?), they have been slow to convert.  Give it a generation or two and my son's son's fish will be a monstrous 40 cm and 500 grams!

[bigblue]

In all the years I have been fishing in Canada, I have yet to hear someone utter salmon/steelhead weight in kilos. It's going to take a long long time, if ever, to fully convert to metric mind set as old habits die hard.  Just my two cents.

[chronic_topdawg]

cocaine is the only thing I can think of sold by the kilo here lol, never heard anyone except Europeans talk about fish in kgs

:oOh Boy yup I dont even lnow why my drivers is in kg.  Hell I grew up here and I have no clue about kg.  But I did learn from scrap metal entrepreneur that there is 2200 lbs in a ton, thought it was a 1000lbs,  well that little buisness was to much work for a six pack.

[TNAngler]

In all the years I have been fishing in Canada, I have yet to hear someone utter salmon/steelhead weight in kilos. It's going to take a long long time, if ever, to fully convert to metric mind set as old habits die hard.  Just my two cents.

The problem with fishing though is if you are communicating to another fisherman who only uses pounds, you will likely get used to using pounds instead too, in which case it might never go away.

[Animal Chin]

I'm Gen X and it's a hybrid, depends on the activities you do too. Way more familiar with pounds, feet and inches... but also kilometres and litres.... gallons, centimetres or miles kinda take me a while.

28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2.2 pounds in a kilogram.

1 litre of water weighs exactly 1 kilogram or 2.2 lbs (useful if you have to carry it), 1 yard is about 1 metre, and 1 metre is about 3 feet... so if it's 1000 m elevation gain that's about 3000 ft, or if the mountain is 5000 metres that's 15,000 ft so bring a warm sleeping bag. 1 mile is about 1.5 km (1.6 actually).

It's a pain but you gotta do what you gotta do. I like to blame the Americans for my confusion.

[TNAngler]

It's a pain but you gotta do what you gotta do. I like to blame the Americans for my confusion.

We'll just blame the Mexicans so you might as well skip the middle step.