Laker Fishing Scale - From Wal-Mart

I needed a scale recently and my electronic fish scale had seen it's last days. The battery went dead and started leaking resulting in the interior corroding. I decided I'd try one of those spring scales since they don't need batteries they should never go bad and they are a lot cheaper.

Well my first try was a Laker brand from Wal-Mart. Cost about five bucks which seemed fair. At least until I tried it. It was obvious the scale wasn't even close to accurate the first thing I put on it. This led me to actually check it with a known weight.

Now I know these cheap scales are not going to be butcher shop accurate but this thing showed a 7.5 pound weight at 3 pounds. That is just plain ridiculous kind of bad, cheap junk. My opinion of this Laker fish scale from Wal-Mart is it should be sold as some kind of kids toy in the toy department and doesn't belong in any way shaper or form in the sporting goods department by any kind of serious fisherman.

Richard Becraft