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BillyBassMaster reply :

Put the pic of your PB on this forum

What bait?

Season?

Weight?

Length?

What state?

Mine is 5.09 lbs

21.5 inches

spring

spinnerbait

Ohio

The picture is in my profile picture

Shimano Metanium HG

St. Croix spinnerbait rod with 12 pound fluoro

WestMichiganBass reply :

Nicest smallie

Caught on a size 10 silver xrap caught on December 26th 2015. 19.75 inches and just shy of 5lbs (this thing was thick) caught in michigan

BillyBassMaster reply :

On 4/5/2016 at 10:56 PM, WestMichiganBass said:

Nicest smallie

Caught on a size 10 silver xrap caught on December 26th 2015. 19.75 inches and just shy of 5lbs (this thing was thick) caught in michigan

Dang, nice one

WestMichiganBass reply :

Why not post two of these.

Caught on a perch color red eye shad on Easter. 20 inches on the nose and a little of 4lbs caught in michigan. I'll hopefully top this fish soon lol

NoahWatts reply :

Didn't get a length or weight but I'd say about 7.5. Fall, rage craw in watermelon meat, SC

HookdUP reply :

7+ my 2016 pb

strike king sexy dog Jr.

Metanium mgl xg

#12 yozuri hybrid

6' 6 mh duckett micro magic pro

Ski reply :

Hand caught Wild shiner

Feb

14.1

28"

Georgia

fishinfiend reply :

my god that is a monster! Well done, sir. Pretty certain id dang near have a heart attack if i hooked into one that big.

buzzed bait reply :

On 4/6/2016 at 12:48 AM, Ski said:

had to have been the budweiser! that is a pig and a half!!

kcdinkerz reply :

5.45 pounds just caught last week on a chatter bait. Didn't have time to measure wanted to get her back in as fast as possible. Prespawn

Fish the Mitt reply :

Length: 22"
Weight: 5.5 (old school spring scale - could be off)
Season: Tail end of spawn would be my guess
When: May 25, 2014
Where: Clare, MI (creek run off from Bailey Lake)
Lure: Orange BlueFox Vibrax inline spinner w/ White Squirrel Tail.

Threw it up on the road culvert and inched it back until it dropped into the creek. BAM! Fight on!

smr_hga reply :

I don't have a pic on the device i am using (ipad) but i my profile pic is its tail.

Length: 24in

Weight: 7lbs or so (didnt have scale so just guessing)

Gear: 1/16oz Beetle Bou Jig (5' ugly stick spincast combo XD)

Date: April 8 (coming up on 1yr anniversary)

Location: My neighborhood pond here in FL that i still fish at.

RipzLipz reply :

Largemouth Bass

Length: Unknown
Weight: 7lbs 8oz (digital scales)
Season: Spring, spawn
When: April 26, 2014
Where: Private coal strip pit in IN (~8 acres)
Lure: 3/8oz. Dirty Jigs Skirted Football Jig (Black & Blue) with a Zoom Ultravibe Speedcraw
Gear: 7' Falcon Cara T7 CC-7-170, Abu Garcia MGX 7.9:1, 15lb. Seaguar Invizx Fluorocarbon

A decent trophy for IN. I'm fairly certain there might be bigger gals lurking in this pit or another that I fish. I was fishing with a buddy and was trying to catch the male, who was on the bed on a rocky flat about 2 feet from a steep breakline. I cast short of the bed to see how aggressive the male was and let the jig continue to fall past the break when he didn't budge. She was waiting down about 6-8 feet deeper. Weighed her and turned her loose to let her finish making more babies and hopefully keeping her fine gene pool intact.

Of note, the 6lb 12oz bass in my profile pic was caught the year before on the same bait, not 2 full casts away from where I caught this one (just past the dark pine tree over my left shoulder - right side of the pic). This was one of the best days I ever had fishing in IN - our best 4 weighed 20lbs 1oz total. The other would be when I caught the 6-12; not an hour later I stuck a 6-4. All were caught in April.

Yeah, Chris' (ski) pig probably might have been able to eat this one. Jesus, dude. What a slobby fat girl. Well done, my friend.

Smallmouth Bass

Length: Unknown
Weight: Unknown - Catch, Photo & Immediate Release (I'm guessing over 5 - guide & Z-train pal Gerry G estimated it between 5 & 6)
Season: Spring, prespawn
When: April 29, 2012
Where: Lake St. Clair, MI
Lure: 1/4oz. Lipless Crankbait

Best single day of fishing in my life - opening day for MI catch & release smallmouth in 2012. Sub-50° temps, 10+ mph winds and 4 foot rollers on the main lake didn't stop our guide from getting us on the fish. He got us across the lake and into a wind-protected bay and on the fish in less than an hour. We caught over 70 brutes - all 2.5 to 5+ lbs in less than 8 hours of fishing. IMO, the smallmouth in the GL systems are a breed all their own - Z-train doesn't lie. You just don't get it until you have one in front of you and see the build on them - thick, nasty slobs that want to make you cry.

LSC is a bucket list trip for any avid smallmouth fisherman, IMO. With that said, unless you're experienced on the Great Lakes systems or other big waters that can get rough & dangerous in a hurry, I'd strongly recommend a guide for a first trip (message me if you want a name - he's been on TV many times with popular hosts and the dude is worth every penny IMO). Size of lake & unpredictable weather (wind/waves) can make things tough & possibly dangerous.

And well done to everyone else as well - PBs are something of which to be proud.

fishinfiend reply :

nice one!

RipzLipz reply :

On 4/6/2016 at 7:21 AM, fishinfiend said:

nice one!

Thanks dude. Nothing compared to what you folks have in your neck of the woods though.

I remember the "Get in the boat Bobby" commercial - a classic!

BillyBassMaster reply :

You all are making me jealous I thought mine was big in the north This is my 5.09 pounder, 21.5 inches

Bluebasser86 reply :

My super skinny PB that went 10lb 2oz on the digital but probably would have been 13-14 if she wasn't on a diet. Lake Commendero, MX on a watermelon seed Zoom Magnum lizard.

My PB for my home state of Kansas 7lb 14oz. Caught it at an undisclosed state lake on a red shad YUM Wooly Hawg.

I've tied my PB smallmouth 3 times now from 2 different lakes with fish that all went 5 pounds on the nose. This was the most recent one that ate a tiny American Shad colored Lucky Craft Zero squarebill.

RipzLipz reply :

Dandy DD & nice smalljaw, blue.

chubaka reply :

10lb 2oz

GA Bass

everythingthatswims reply :

February 16th, 2016

25"

Weight Unknown (fish calculator says 10.4)

1/8oz SK Football Shakey Head x Nikko Baits 6" Club Tail Bass Worm Green Pumpkin

St. Croix 6'8" Medium x Shimano Symetre 3000

10lb Stren Braid x 8lb P-Line Fluoroclear (No I don't usually use copoly for leaders, don't make fun of me)

Lake Anna, Va, "Hot Side"

Joey Bass reply :

On 4/7/2016 at 11:09 AM, everythingthatswims said:

February 16th, 2016

25"

Weight Unknown (fish calculator says 10.4)

1/8oz SK Football Shakey Head x Nikko Baits 6" Club Tail Bass Worm Green Pumpkin

St. Croix 6'8" Medium x Shimano Symetre 3000

10lb Stren Braid x 8lb P-Line Fluoroclear (No I don't usually use copoly for leaders, don't make fun of me)

Lake Anna, Va, "Hot Side"

That thing is as big as my Mini Cooper. Dang!!!

ww2farmer reply :

October 2014, 7lbs 1 oz. Conesus Lake. Caught on a homemade 1 oz flipping jig w/Havoc pit boss trailer, pitched into a small isolated deep grass bed in 18' FOW that I could only see on my graph.

August 2013, 6lbs 12oz. Silver Lake (one of two fish that I have caught that same exact weight on Silver). This one was caught during one of my 3 hour, 3 fish Thursday evening tournaments. Took lunker, and helped wnybassman and I win the tournament with 13.69 lb for our 3 fish limit. Caught in about 10 FOW on a 5" green pumpkin wacky rigged yum dinger on a 1/16th oz. wacky jig head................I am more "proud" of this one than the 7lber. 7lber's are not all that rare, but also not common on Conesus, every year at least one or two get weighed in in tournaments. I have fished tournaments for over 10 years now on Silver, and not once in those 10 years..............either before, or after I caught that 6-12, has one bigger came across my scales, or any other tournaments that I don't run the scales...............I keep tabs LOL. Some day one will...............I just hope it's me that does it again.

00 mod reply :

ALL TIME PB

What bait - Bomber BD8F Citrus Shad/ Upgraded hooks/split rings

Season - Middle of Summer- July 19, 2012

Weight - 10lbs 14oz

Length - 25 1/4 (I think, it is written down in my logs)

What state - Sinaloa MX - Lake Baccarac

US PB

What bait - 3/4 oz Siebert Outdoors Brush jig 00modbug with Skinny dipper trailer

Season- Early Spring/Pre-spawn February 29th, 2016

Weight - 9lb 1 oz

Length- unknown

What state - Mississippi- undisclosed location

Dwight Hottle reply :

indigenous swimbait

December

11lb-2oz

26.5"

Florida

rapala tail dancer

May

7lbs-6oz

22.5"

Pennsylvania

fishinfiend reply :

My goodness that is a fat slob. Pretty markings too.

Ski reply :

On 4/7/2016 at 11:43 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

indigenous swimbait

Would that be a wild native shiner?

Dwight Hottle reply :

On 4/8/2016 at 12:45 AM, Ski said:

Would that be a wild native shiner?

Yes

RipzLipz reply :

On 4/7/2016 at 11:43 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

indigenous swimbait

December

11lb-2oz

26.5"

Florida

rapala tail dancer

May

7lbs-6oz

22.5"

Pennsylvania

Both are just tremendous fish Dwight. Did the smallmouth put up a great fight?

RipzLipz reply :

On 4/7/2016 at 9:47 PM, 00 mod said:

ALL TIME PB

What bait - Bomber BD8F Citrus Shad/ Upgraded hooks/split rings

Season - Middle of Summer- July 19, 2012

Weight - 10lbs 14oz

Length - 25 1/4 (I think, it is written down in my logs)

What state - Sinaloa MX - Lake Baccarac

US PB

What bait - 3/4 oz Siebert Outdoors Brush jig 00modbug with Skinny dipper trailer

Season- Early Spring/Pre-spawn February 29th, 2016

Weight - 9lb 1 oz

Length- unknown

What state - Mississippi- undisclosed location

Complete donkey slobs. Well done!

Dwight Hottle reply :

On 4/8/2016 at 4:41 AM, RipzLipz said:

Both are just tremendous fish Dwight. Did the smallmouth put up a great fight?

Yes the smallie fought well. Caught her in about 22 fow bouncing that bait off bottom.

Mainebass1984 reply :

9 lbs 1 oz

Maine

Jig

Conservatively aged to be 18+ years old. Could have been over 20.

11/7/2013

23.5 inches long

19.5 inch girth

Jar11591 reply :

Largemouth

Black jointed Jitterbug

July, A little after midnight.

5 lbs 1 oz

20.5 inches

NY State

I have tied this mark or come extremely close almost two dozen times the last two years but I just can't break it. Hopefully this is the year.

Smallmouth

Strike King ElazTech finesse worm, drop shot.

August

4 lbs 4 oz

19.5 inches

NY State

brgbassmaster reply :

Bomber orange craw

Winter

8.64lbs

Arizona

Knightiac reply :

Actual PB

Bait: Shiner

Season: Spring

Weight: 8 lbs 5 oz

Length: I was shaking too much to get a good measurement

Location: Orlando, FL

Setup: One of my inshore setups - 7" M Calico Jack X Penn Fierce 3000 w/ 15 LB Power Pro Super Slick

(the one on the left)

My buddies bass actually had a giant bluegill in its belly - tail sticking out of its mouth and everything. Crazy that it still hit a shiner. We doubled up.

Artificial PB

Bait: Berkley Havoc Subwoofer X Gammy 3/0 Weight Swimbait Hook

Season: Fall

Weight: No scale at the time - any guesses?

Length: Did not measure

Location: Orlando, FL

Setup: 7" M St Croix Mojo Bass X Abu Garcia Cardinal SX w/ 8lb Berkley Smooth XL Casting

Lucky Craft Man reply :

7lb. 0oz.

34 inches

53.5 inches

Those are about the only PB's I keep track of. I have yet to catch a Largemouth I would consider worth tracking as a PB (biggest so far is only 5 pounds).

RipzLipz reply :

On 4/9/2016 at 12:36 PM, Lucky Craft Man said:

7lb. 0oz.

^^^This.

Complete slob. Well done! The others are great catches as well, just not fish I target.

00 mod reply :

On 4/9/2016 at 12:36 PM, Lucky Craft Man said:

7lb. 0oz.

34 inches

53.5 inches

Those are about the only PB's I keep track of. I have yet to catch a Largemouth I would consider worth tracking as a PB (biggest so far is only 5 pounds).

Oh my. 7lbs - HUGe!!!

34 inches is a club many will never hit- but we are sitting there drinking a beer together!!

53.5 is world class- you are probably alone at that table on this board of over 53K people! Congrats!!!

Jeff

Lucky Craft Man reply :

On 4/9/2016 at 7:44 PM, 00 mod said:

Oh my. 7lbs - HUGe!!!

34 inches is a club many will never hit- but we are sitting there drinking a beer together!!

53.5 is world class- you are probably alone at that table on this board of over 53K people! Congrats!!!

Jeff

Heh heh...Jeff, I don't know why, but I got a chuckle over this. Thanks for the kind words.

That King in terms of how Kings go isn't really "big" (as they shake ones that small off in Alaska), but being an Eastern King caught on a fly rod my wife had Scott (a.k.a. SHFishinSticks) make me as a 40th Birthday gift really added to the sentiment of the catch (and I think the pictured turned out ok. I tried posing like one of those hard core fly guys).

00 mod reply :

The cork work on that fly rod is out of this world as well!! Scott is the man!

Jeff

Mainebass1984 reply :

On 4/9/2016 at 12:36 PM, Lucky Craft Man said:

34 inches

How much did it weigh ?

Lucky Craft Man reply :

On 4/9/2016 at 11:50 PM, Mainebass1984 said:

How much did it weigh ?

Not sure. I just lifted her out of the water for a picture, taped her in the water, and off she went. If I had to estimate, I would say around 15 to 16 pounds. My wife caught one trolling when we were fishing the main lake a few years back that was 37 inches long, which weighed 20lb. 8oz. (so I think 15 pounds for that one is a safe guess). Again, not a huge fish, but catching it with a fly I tied (and I suck at fly tying) on a rod my buddy Scott made as a request by my wife as a birthday gift, while fishing with a life long friend really made it a special catch in my fishing life.

Ski reply :

On 4/8/2016 at 4:52 AM, RipzLipz said:

What state - Sinaloa MX

Next time around Mazatlan try the bill fishing, we got our PB there, (Pacific sail and Blue Marlin), After Hawaii, Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, Mauritius, Gulf and Atlantic.

Nate Stonefish reply :

23" smallmouth did not get the weight, scale was missing, but she measured an even 23" I know Shame on the straight arm. Still Biggest Bass I ever caught. My guess is was an easy 5lbs + as I have caught and weighed plenty of smallies in the high 4`s With this guy blowing them all away.

A-Jay reply :

On 4/10/2016 at 5:54 AM, Nate Stonefish said:

23" smallmouth did not get the weight, scale was missing, but she measured an even 23" I know Shame on the straight arm. Still Biggest Bass I ever caught. My guess is was an easy 5lbs + as I have caught and weighed plenty of smallies in the high 4`s With this guy blowing them all away.

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

Nice Smallie

A-Jay

Nate Stonefish reply :

On 4/10/2016 at 6:05 AM, A-Jay said:

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

Nice Smallie

A-Jay

Thanks A-Jay! Looking forward to being on the BR team and website.

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