What bait was your largest bass caught on? 2024

BassFishingMachine reply :

Just another one of my curiosity questions . My biggest bass (5lbs) was caught on a 4inch Camo Powerworm.

The_Natural reply :

8lbs on a Bagley B2 in pearl/black back.

Captain Cali reply :

11lbs./Roboworm Body Shad on a drop shot rig.

fourbizz reply :

A SoCal donkey on a DROP SHOT! You my friend are "The Great Southern Trendkill"

Captain Cali reply :

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A SoCal donkey on a DROP SHOT! You my friend are "The Great Southern Trendkill"

2 of 'em my friend! Go figure! :

fourbizz reply :

I hear ya, I spent months swimbaiting and my first ten plus finally came off of a ten inch worm. I'll take 'em how I get can get 'em! But the thought of an eleven on my dropshot rod scares me to death!

Mattlures reply :

My top ten fish all came by way of the swimbait

bass109 reply :

Mine would be a secret.

dmitri reply :

6.2lbs on a 1/2oz spinerbait

jdw174 reply :

8lbs on a spinnerbait.

Vyron reply :

On senko ,a lure that I rarely use and I dont like ;D

0119 reply :

9lbs. on a Watermelon Candy Sizmic Toad.

basspro48 reply :

7.4lbs caught on a white 1/2oz. buzzbait.

fishbear reply :

5 lber on a bobber and nightcrawler while fishing for bream........ : : ;)

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

9.2lbs.--Super spook--3 am

and it's funny because I always preach that you most likely won't get your PB on a topwater. Although they can be known for some no-stop , heart pumping action when the bite is on, they don't usually produce the "biggest" fish in the lake. Literally.

But on occassion,.....that rare, isolated incidence....lol

bipr8 reply :

6" blue fleck Power Worm

roadwarrior reply :

Norman Fat Boy, bluegill pattern.

nboucher reply :

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I always preach that you most likely won't get your PB on a topwater.

6lb, 7oz on a green pumpkin Zoom horny toad.

NEBassMan reply :

Norman Deep Baby N in Chartreuse with Blue Back

senile1 reply :

6.9 lb - T-rigged, Black, Original Culprit Worm

Hawgin reply :

5 lb 9 oz, on a Strike King bleeding seriese 1/2 oz spinnerbait in firetiger.

guest reply :

9lb. 2oz. Indiana bass caught on a black, homemade crankbait.

Alpster reply :

A little over 6 lbs on a dark blue 1/2 oz Arkie jig with a 'Uncle Josh' black widow eel trailer.

Ronnie

Siebert Outdoors reply :

3/8 nichols spinnerbait

spro frog

both were in the low 7's some where dont remember exact weights

roadwarrior reply :

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3/8 nichols spinnerbait
spro frog

both were in the low 7's some where dont remember exact weights

What?

GMAN,

When I get you down here you will remember the bait, the weight, the date and the time of day!

BASS fisherman reply :

Where the heck are you guys fishing to be catching bass over 5lbs like you are? Man Im moving out of Pa, forget this place.

My biggest bass was caught on a Rebel Pop-r. Second biggest was on a 4" watermelon dinger.

guest reply :

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3/8 nichols spinnerbait
spro frog

both were in the low 7's some where dont remember exact weights

What?

GMAN,

When I get you down here you will remember the bait, the weight, the date and the time of day!

June 21, 1980 12 noon. white quarter ounce single colorado hammered blade, "Brush hog" brand spinnerbait. 7lbs. 8 oz's

but who can remember that long ago ;D

KU_Bassmaster. reply :

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3/8 nichols spinnerbait
spro frog

both were in the low 7's some where dont remember exact weights

What?

GMAN,

When I get you down here you will remember the bait, the weight, the date and the time of day!

June 21, 1980 12 noon. white quarter ounce single colorado hammered blade, "Brush hog" brand spinnerbait. 7lbs. 8 oz's

but who can remember that long ago ;D

March 25, 2005

There was a slight wind out of the south, 5.8 mph if I remember correctly, and I was fishing the east side of Little Caney on Lake Fork. At precisely 11:36:06 am I made a cast with my Strike King Series 4S crankbait past one of the many stumps on Fork. I began reeling in and about 7 turns of the handle I could feel my crank start to hang up in the grass. I "popped" it free and felt it run into the stump and then felt a slight tick. I began reeling in and to my surprise there was no resistance ........... I was confused for a split second then............... FISH ON. I reeled as fast as I could to catch up and by the time I caught up she was about 20 ft from the boat and was starting to come up. Then I see the "flash" and I almost crap my pants, but somehow nervously utter the word "Giant" to my dad that I have a good fish on. It's the biggest d**n bass I have ever seen. She started to come to the surface and I did everything I could to keep her down but she made a picture perfect jump about 10 ft from the boat. By this time my heart is shaking my whole body it's pumping so hard and I kind of feel like I am going to pass out, but I am loving it. My dad then realizes that I wasn't joking and he starts getting a little nervous too asking if there's anything he can do. I told him to see if there is a net (rented boat) and he does not find one. I worked my way to the side of the boat because the big momma was about to surface next to the boat where I could lip her ...... WRONG. That would be way too easy. As soon as she surfaced at the side of the boat she made a dive like I had never seen or felt before. A small crowd is starting to gather around our boat and I am beginning to think I have a new SAL to donate. She finally begins to surface again and I reach my hand out to grab her, but she takes another powerful but short dive. After another minute or so she surfaces again, only this time onto my thumb. I raise her out of the water and it felt like the world had been lifted off my shoulders. The few boats that gathered around were clapping and telling me to hold it up and telling me about the SAL program (that I of course already knew about). As my dad fumbled around looking for the scale some people were asking me how long it was so I measured it on the "Golden Rule" ruler that was attached to the rented boat ......... 25". One guy tells me I have real shot at a SAL. My dad finally finds the scale ..... moment of truth ............. 10 lbs 8 oz. A little disappointing she wasn't 13+, she definitely looked it to me and others, but none the less my first 10+ and a new PB so who can complain. I posed for a few pictures for my self and then for another boat that asked for a picture (I really wish I could hunt these people down. Turns out my dad left the digital camera in his suit case, so all I got were camera phone shots. There's no doubt they have better pictures of my fish than I do : We contemplated putting the fish in the livewell and making a run back to the hotel for the camera, but I didn't want to risk the life of the fish for that. In hindsight it would have been so easy to ask those people to send me the pics they had via email. I kick myself everytime I look at the pictures I have)

Yeah ... I remember it pretty well. ;D ;D

BucketmouthAngler13 reply :

Like a few others here i cought my 5.2lb LM bass on a buzzbait. A 1/2oz Booyah black w/clacker at 2:30ish pm on Saterday, July 8th of this year. I was running it over some sunken logs. Sunny weather, Temp. around 85* with no wind.

It was my 4th cast. I was fishing from the bank. About half way through my retrieve (i was running it med. fast) i saw a wake right behind my buzzbait. I couldn't tell if it was a big fish or my buzzbait, so i stoped my retrieve for an split seccond and KA-BOOM there was a huge explosion on my lure. He was about 20yrds out when he hit, and jumped 2 times before i landed him. Fun stuff.

Picture of fish:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g9/catfishguy/bassicon2.jpg

I've done great with the buzzbait. I got a 4lber in later july on the same type of buzz, and bunches of 3lbs throughout the summer. IMHO Booyah makes the best buzzbait, the clacker really makes the big mama bass mad.

Matt

Munkin reply :

6-7 On a Zoom super hog creature bait.

Allen

Dan: reply :

texas rigged 4 inch zoom lizard (watermelon) ~4lbs.

Raul reply :

13.86 lbs, Rapala Shad Rap SR7 SD.

SPEEDBEAD. reply :

I dont know how big, but I know for sure that it was on a terminator spinnerbait.

scott000 reply :

4-5 lb on a rebel popr

specifically the ol bass one

shimanogloomis man reply :

5.6 on a 3/4 oz rat l trap black/chrome

Hula Popper reply :

Johnson Beetle Spin. 99 cents. Get some.

tmacdaddy055 reply :

7lb 4oz on a white floating mouse

Lightninrod reply :

9 lbs even on a Matt's Baby Bass

Dan

bassheel reply :

A 7.3 on a strike king 3/8 S/B in white shad.It was in Dec. of 2005 on a private pond.

sodaksker reply :

6" senko black with blue flake rigged weightless.

volpster31 reply :

5 lb'er

on a 6" junebug zoom lizard..........

Bass Mekanik reply :

8lb give or take on a weightless 5" watermelon red flake tiki stick.

boondocks reply :

Home maid jig.

shortbasser reply :

8.0 lb. --- Rattlin' Rogue

CyBasser reply :

5lb 11oz on Yo-Zuri Hardcore lipless crankbait....

erice97699 reply :

both of my largest fish came on consecutive morings with a 1/2 oz black and red booyah buzz bait with the clacker on it. On the third morning a nailed what appeared to be the largest fish of my life but I lost him when he dove under the bank and worked himself free....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/erice97699/DSCN0540.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/erice97699/DSCN0544.jpg

Eric

Rose_Jackets67 reply :

25-3/4 inches (calculator on here says 8.8 lbs based on measured length/girth) on a smoke/hologram 5" GYCB senko.

Adam

ga_hawghauler reply :

largest bass came on a zoom green pumpkin baby brush hog

K_Mac reply :

6.5# on a black plastic worm(10" I think, out of the bulk bin at the local marina)-1/4oz round-head jig w/open hook. March 1998, @1:00 am, Bull Shoals Lake, Spring Creek arm. In @ 8' of water (big flat) close to 18-20' creek channel. My wife hit it in the head with the net the first attempt, but we managed to land it anyway. 8-)

bassrogue reply :

9lber-3/8oz Booyah Boo Jig(Black/Red w/ Red flake) w/ a 3" grub trailer(Black)

Bankbeater reply :

An old Rebel Deep-R down at Lake of the Ozarks.

Bean Counter reply :

10 lbs. On a 3/8 oz Mini Me spinner bait, white with Chartreuse skirt and a white twin tail grub trailer.

Catt reply :

A pair just under 9 pounds on a Gene Larew 7 ½ Salty Ring Worm in Cinnamon Pepper Neon/June Bug Laminated (Camouflage).

NJfishinGuy reply :

my 2 biggest both came on the same biat a strike king chart colorado spinnerbait

Turtle. reply :

5.5 lber on a 7'' tequila sunrise power worm,t-riged

Fisherman reply :

6.7 Peacock on X-Rap Gold; sunny/clear/mid-day.

Gatorbassman reply :

9.98 Largemouth on a Mojo Rigged, Watermelon Gold Trickworm, #1 offset Gammy worm hook, 8lb Seagar Florocarbon, and a Med-Light G-Blank Costom Spinning Rod.

Oh, and senko77 with the net.

SteveKickinBass reply :

I caught mine at night on a 1/2 oz white/Char Ball-buster Buzzbait

GAMEOVER reply :

Jitterbug, Black, late evening.

Tucson reply :

8lbs 8oz LM on a 4" smoke/multiflake GYCB double tailed hula grub.

Chris at Tech reply :

Split shot rig with a junebug Zoom ultravibe worm. Around 6lbs.

Catt reply :

FYI out of 60 replies

Soft Plastic: 19

Crank Bait: 14

Spinner Bait: 10

Buzz Bait: 4

Top Water: 4

Jig-N-?: 3

Frog Bait: 3

Swim Bait: 2

Live Bait: 1

buzzbaitfool12 reply :

12.4..caught on a double bladed persuader 1oz in white color on Aug 6, 2005 at 6.45 pm in the afternoon..Caught it the same week my son was born..it out weighed Russell by 3 lbs..It was caught in 2 and half feet of water..Caught on 20lb berkley trilene which I dont use anymore a bass pro shop extreme 7 ft rod medhy and a abu garcia baitcaster..There is nothing like the water being sucked up by a big bucket mouth

Cousin Eddie reply :

4 1/2lb on a T-rigged Senko, silver color.

Rattlinrogue reply :

12.2 on a Rattlinrogue floating jerkbait(used as a topwater bait) on 07/05/2003 at 6:35 AM in 3 feet of grassy,stump filled flat.

Keithscatch reply :

4" Zoom centipede T-rigged in Pumpkin color. Fish weighed 9.5lbs.

bass109 reply :

Alright the three main baits i caught my biggest bass on are

1. Livebait ,13lbs

2.spinnerbait,10lbs

3.swimbait,8lbs

ww2farmer reply :

Largest bass of 2006: 6lbs 2oz- zoom bubblegum trick worm

Largest bass ever in my "home" lake 7lbs even- 4" watermelon/red flake yum dinger

Largest bass ever/any where 10lbs 5oz- live shiner

BassKing813 reply :

My largest bass was 3lbs 15oz and I caught it on a black, t-rigged Zoom Trickworm.

flyphisher # reply :

10.2 on black Zoom trick worm....

9.5 on olive wooly booger tied myself....(flyrod PB)

SneakySnook reply :

10lb on a terminator spinnerbait.

bassnleo reply :

Norman DD22 crank, chartreuse/blue.

p-funk reply :

8lbs 3oz - 3:16 No Bull Frog - Brown Color

8lbs 0oz - Lucky Craft G-Splash 85 - American Shad Pattern

7lbs 9oz - Tru Tungsten 3/8oz Buzzbait - White

7lbs 3oz - Tru Tungsten 3/8oz Buzzbait - White

7lbs 1oz - Rebel Pop-R 80 - Firetiger

Yep, my top 5 all came on topwater lures.

bipr8 reply :

My top 4 came on 6" worms. Three of them were blue fleck Power Woms, the other a Zoom "Natural Blue" color. None the size Pfunk listed above, but all my personal bests none-the-less.

rocknfish9001 reply :

Caught at the dead of noon, around 95* and the best day of fishing in my life. Bass were chasing bluegills and they were busting up on the surface all over the place. I caught 7 bass all on a 3/8 oz. strike king buzzbait, white. All were over 15, and my pb, 5lbs, 11 oz. All within an hour.

There was a close one early this year. It was months before bass season opened. In march, just weeks after ice out. The water was straight brown, and the air temp was around 45* I tried cranks, colorado spinnerbaits, and all sorts of large profile, water moving baits, since the water looked like pea soup. I tried a senko, not really a muddy water bait. 1st cast, fish on. The thing was probably close to 6 lbs, but i didnt weigh or measure it.

Pa Angler reply :

6lbs 5ozs on a green colored Frog Spitten Image.

harshman reply :

6lbs 2oz on a Luckycraft Lipless Crank

6lbs 7oz on a Spro Bronzeye Black

harshman

LrgMouthCatcha reply :

9.7 on a 6" zoom u-tail worm

color: kudzu

dink reply :

7.5 lbs. on 6" Toledo Tackle red shad Bandit worm (ribbon tail)

An even bigger one (no scale, but probably over eight according to the fish calculator) on white 1/2 oz tandem white bladed spinnerbait wtih a pearl Superfluke as a trailer.

cart7t reply :

Biggest actually brought into the boat was on a Vintage Storm Wiggle wart SV-SP-53 color, it was a little over 8lbs. The biggest fish I ever had on would've pushed 9-10lbs easy and that was on a chartreuse Rat-L-Trap.

Okeechobee_Cracker reply :

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9.2lbs I always preach that you most likely won't get your PB on a topwater.

;DI thought the saem....untill my brother pulled out a 9 pounder on a popper.................My biggest was a 8lb on a termintor spinner bait

N.Jack reply :

5lber, dropshot rig, 25ft deep, 4 inch balck renegade worm, smothered in bang spray garlic flavor, 12 noon, Lake Bomoseen VT

SuthernProg reply :

Homemade 3/8 oz spinnerbait.

The_Bass_Whisperer reply :

I caught a striper a little ofer 18 lb. with large shad, on lake Texoma

island bassin reply :

4.2lbs on Booyah black buzzbait

Lucky Craft Man reply :

I caught my personal best while fishing off the end of a dock for bluegill. I hooked a bluegill and when he got close to the dock, he went nuts. Then I saw this bass come from under the dock I was standing on and inhaled the bluegill. I opened the bail on my reel and let the bass take the bluegill into the adjacent weeds. After waiting about 1 minute, I set the hook. I saw the mouth of the bass open wide and the now discolored and deformed bluegill came out. The bass looked around and when he saw the bluegill floating toward the surface, he hit it again. So I waited another minute and set the hook again. This time it took and I pulled him in. He was 22.5" long and weight 6.2 lbs. I am happy to say he swam off in good health when I released him. So to make a long story short, I guess I caught my personal best on a live bluegill. What I find funny though, is that I spend all this money on nice bass rods, reels, and lures and I catch my PB on a crappy rod & reel fishing for bluegill...go figure.

Ky_Lake_Dude reply :

Mine is a 6 1/2 lb larry largemouth on a blue 1/4 Strike King Denny Brauer Pro-Model Jig with a blue Zoom super chunk Jr. I caught in a not real well known part of Kentucky Lake in Southwest Tennessee on main river laydowns while the current was rolling we could barely keep the boat in positon to fish.I cast my jig and let my jig drift underneath the tree then when I went to move it it wouldn't move so I set the hook and felt him pull for a minute and he got hung up on the tree and I just kept real tight pressure on him and he came out of the tree. I didn't know how big he was until I pulled him up next to the boat and said crap its huge then my dad got the net and got him so I gotta give him some credit.

huskyjerk reply :

My biggest bass was caught on a Rapala minnow spoon, pre-spawn. Just over 6 lbs.

Bass Magnet reply :

Best fish came on a River2Sea swimbait in Clear Lake CA.

Only got 8 bites.

Best 5 were 11.1, 8.3, 6, 6, 5.8.

SMOKE'N

GOD BLESS CLEAR LAKE CA

Com'n t the EAST for 07.

Fish Hard or Leave it on the Trailer!

TBM

Supermat reply :

Of my top 10 Double-digits, 8 came on swimbaits while the other two came on texas rigged plastics. It should be noted that the two on plastics were both spawning fish.

www.calfishing.com/gallery/v/members/supermat

texasbass1 reply :

Largemouth: 8 lbs 5 oz 1/4 oz Stanley spinnerbait blue/white/chart

Smallmouth: 5lbs 4 oz 1oz White spinnerbait (Home made)

guest reply :

12.7 texas rigged 14" custom pour worm

12.2 pop-r

2 over 10 in the same day off a 10" texas rigged power worm.

hi_steel_basser reply :

I have only caught one dubba digit bass in my life- I caught it bed fishin from the bank. It was 10+, though I didn't have scales. I caught it on a black/blue jig with a 4" trailer at upper raliegh pond in Charlie Elliot PFA, where 3 of GA's top 5 have come from. (Ya'll know about#1, doncha?). My PB spotted bass weighed between 5-6, caught on a pointer 78, 8lb test, spinning tackle, about a month ago.

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