Digital Fish Scales

[uglyokuma]

What is everyone preference??

I had a older Berkley scale that lasted 5 years and I have a Rapala scale the only lasted 3 years and am thinking about getting a new one. I wasn't very happy with either of theses scale even thought the Berkley lasted a while I never was too confident in the readings it gave. Any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks guys.

[Tim Bromund]

I've got the Berkley and it is dead nutz accurate. Just recently at the Niagara Pro Am, we weighed a king at 21.5 lbs on the berkley on the boat, after it was in the cooler bleeding a bit and waiting for the weigh in, the official weight on the Tournament Scale was 21.41. I was pretty happy with that.

Tim

[Silver Fox]

Ditto on the Berkley. It's just about perfect. Any scale or electric knife made by rapala have been unreliable.

[uglyokuma]

If you don't mind me asking which Berkley scale do you use??? There is one called a TEC scale that is around $50 and then there are some other that around $30. Thanks for your help guys!!

[Silver Fox]

The $30 one is what we use.

[Tim Bromund]

Don't remember. It's on the boat, but I think it was the 30 dollar one.

Tim

[Gene Shenk]

I got a Berkley FS50 from walmart it is digital and has a range up to 50lbs. It just so happens I calibrate scales and other instruments where I work so I put some calibrated weights on it up to 30 lbs it was +/- 1oz. I find this pretty incredible so I checked it again this year and it is still holding that tolerance. A friend of mine I work with bought one today so we threw some weights on that one to and I could not believe it but it held +/- 1 oz as well. Don't get me wrong bouncing around in a boat it is still only as accurate as its environment but I think you would be hard pressed to beat it. I used to own a rapala digital and at 30 lbs it was not very repeatable and was off as much as 2.5lbs.I would buy another Berkley in a second, I have not tested any other berkley scales and I have not tested this one above 30 lbs but so far for 20 bucks I can not beat it.

[Mike Plotner]

I have the 30lb berkley with the lip grip and seems to be really good

Mike