As always, I'm here to add a little brightness to your other wise dull and unexciting day today!

Ever catch that one fish, where you take a photo of it, release it, look back on that photo, and say to yourself, "Wow. I wonder how big that snakey hen would have been?"

I've got such a photo. Here's the photo and fish in question.

If this fish were fresh, how big do you think it would have been?



As a way of comparison, here's another freshy hen I got on that same day. On average, I'd say fish like this is somewhere in the 12-14 pound range



The next two photos are of some hens on a different day.

This next hatchery freshy was 18 pounds, on the nose, on the scale.



Here's another "average" hen. Somewhere in that 12-14poundish range.



Well? Doesn't that first fish look really long to you? I've always wondered how big that snake would have been as a "freshy"?

I doubt that fish was a 20-and-over-trophy hen, but I bet it would have been close. What sayeth you all?