There are no prizes. No rewards. And the answer could be slippery. But hee goes:

Who can tell me what the filets from 50 bluegill weigh?

This isn't a random question.

Once a month the local lake has a bluegill fishing tournament. I usually go down, help with the weigh in, etc. I have selfish reasons for helping out: a least one team usually doesn't wan't their fish, and I get to bring them home.

Today was a little different. Several teams didn't want their fish. I wound up with something on the order of 130 or so. I don't have an exact count yet, as I've just finished fileting the first half century of them. And definately needed a break.

But on a whim I weighed the filets. So, just for fun, let's see who can come close to guessing the weight while I go back to fileting the rest of them.

Khrist, Brook... unless you got some saquatch-blue-gill down your way that are unlike the ones we got here, I'd guess you'd need at least a dozen decent fillets to make a whole pound of them rascals! Tiny fish anyway- but then the waste and such. Dang, you're gonna have carpal tunnel syndrome before you get those puppies finished! But... good eatin'!

(and you had the nerve to comment on my "chicken" halibut avatar a few days back! Hee-Hee!)

Dangle a worm like that in front of me and watch me bite........... here goes

50 Bluegill filets = 12 and 2/3 lbs.

Try again, Cathy.

50 whole bluegill won't tip the scales at 12+ pounds.

Then surely my mathematical skills are awry, I am going to guess around half the amount or a little more perhaps 8 lbs.?