Your Trout Feeling Lighter Than Before? You’re Not Alone
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That 18″ trout feel a little lighter than the last one you caught? You’re not alone. Even the object used to define the Kilogram doesn’t weigh as much as it used to:
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight - if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.
At the Underground, the message is clear; always weigh your fish in kilos, not pounds, then convert.
If the kilo keeps losing mass, pretty soon that 12″ rainbow trout is going to weigh a full kilo (that’s 2.2 pounds).
It’s yet another helpful hint designed to improve your fly fishing results – and it’s absolutely free of charge from the Underground. Once again, no need to thank me (beyond hero worship, of course).
See you at the scales, Tom Chandler.
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