Cheap ruler tape

If, like most anglers, you are proud of your catches and like to share them with others, you will sooner or later want to also share their size.

Here are couple of product I Iike:

The Alvey rulers (less than $20)

The Pelagic Vinyl Measuring Mat (around $25)

I have a fish lip gripper that has a scale and tape ruler built-in but the problem with those tape rulers is they get rusty easily. Those products above are made of plastic or vinyl so will live longer. But they have a price!

An cheap alternative is to look at the products from Hong Kong or China. Even though a lot of their cheap stuffs are crap you can find relatively decent items or at least so cheap that you don't mind buying more than once.

What I like with chinese products is they have nice design, if only they can spend as much time on quality as on design I think they can kill the market.

Anyway, here is what you can get cheap for measuring your small to big fish:

These are soft tape rulers but hey you don't need fancy stuffs to measure a fish , do you? These are made of plastic so rust free and they cost $1 including shipping... And you can measure a fish up to 1.5m, should be enough for most weekend anglers.