Caught mine on a Rapala DT 6 in bluegill color!
1/2 oz black and blue jig.
1/4 oz war eagle flipping jig in pond scum perch color with a paca chunk trailer
5" Bama Bug Senko
my 3 biggest have been caught using a spinnerbait, either white or chartreuse
Terminator Spinnerbait - White/Green with a white grub trailer for my last 2 PBs.
Before that one, I got my pb on a Black Booyah Buzzbait.
storm swimbait
Just over 11 lbs on a green pumpkin zoom finesse worm.
1/2oz blue craw brush jig /w rage craw trailer
Just below 8 pounds on a Strike King Sexy Shad squarebill.
KVD 1.5 I think... Or maybe it was a 12inch ole monster. Lol I don't remember
8" Savage Gear Line Thru in rainbow trout floating model altered a bit to suspend slightly.
Caught mine on a live bluegill hooked through the tail. 8.3lb
A Northland 3/8oz Colorado Black with red spinnerbait at dusk.
On 7/21/2014 at 4:10 AM, Cptn. Backlash said:1/2 oz black and blue jig.
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my pb is my new profile picture. Wacky rigged 5" senko, watermelon black flake. Caught it a few hours ago!
White chatterbait
Hair jig w/ pork trailer.
Tom
White spinner bait double willow silver and white blades
My top 3 starting with biggest:
1. 5" watermelon senko
2. Black jointed Jitterbug
3. Culprit 10" black ribbon-tail
Rapala DT10 demon color. Got all of the DTs in that color now. Got turned onto it after the bass master classic.
11.2 off Lochloosa in 87 .... Now here's the thing, we got a pontoon... And crappie fished( specks) down there, after about 30 good specks.... Bam...
Largemouth.. Big un .... Cane pole and minnow!
Maybe it don't count, but it was a trip!!!
Haven't broke 10 pound since....
9.7 on Lochloosa in 88 on Gilraker 7" red/black spinal core plastic worm. Flippin Hydrilla
Gary Yamamoto Senko. Watermelon with black flecks. That fish hit that sucker so hard and fought so hard.
1/4 oz. Topwater Popper, the bait is over 15 years old, and I have no idea what it is called....found it in an old Plano that I dusted off.
I can't remember the color Senko, but it was a 5", wacky rigged on a size #1 Gamakatsu Wide Gap Finesse Hook.
Gear: 6' MF rod, Accurist BC reel (7.1:1) 10 lb Berkley Fireline (mainline), 10 lb test Yo-Zuri Hybrid leader, clear.
Caught in thick salad.
Jackall Kawashi Mikey 140 ghost gill
Watermelon Fat Ika
1/2 oz jig
Pegged 3/4oz tungsten weight to a Rage Recon Worm in Green Pumpkin/Purple Gold.
A 1/4 oz. Booyah Blade tandem bladed spinnerbait.
I caught mine with a net. It was belly up and I just scooped him up. I think he would have givin me a pretty good fight if he would have been a live.
Largemouth: 7lbs. 1oz. On a 1oz. jig
Smallmouth: 6lbs even, on a 4" green pumpkin finesse worm on a drop shot.
5.13 on a Tx rig 5" senko
6.2 on a dropshot using sk dream shot worm
KVD 1.5 in bluegill
livetarget field mouse
texas rigged yum dinger
Whacky rigged Pumpkin Strike King Shimee stick.
Wacky rigged 4" Berkley Gulp! Alive! Nightcrawler, Natural
Color
February 26 2007, I caught an 11.4 at Loxahatchee on a weightless watermelon fluke at high noon on a sunny day.
Strike King 6 XD. Chartreuse/blue back.
It was about 106 degrees at 2:00 p.m.
6.5 lbs. on a 4" tube jig brown/orange.
Similar to this one. The one I used was an old style - no salt, no glitter
caught mine(10lbs) on a small 1/4oz black buzzbait ironicly. Most of my other big ones i've caught on hollow body frogs.
7.2 on a LC pointer in ghost minnow
Chrome blue back rat l trap
Jig
5 1/2 lb Spotted bass on a 3/8 oz Pop'r
Super Spook and Norman Deep Little N. Both fish were 7.3
My PB was 10.2lbs. I caught it on a zoom lizard, black with blue tail with a 3/16 ounces tungsten bullet weight and 4/0 EWG Gami. I was using a St. Croix Avid MH x-fast with a Shimano Stradic FI 2500 and 6lb test Yo Zuri Hybrid Ultra Soft.
pearl white super fluke, using a falcon lowrider 6'10" m/f with shimano symetre 2500
8 inch manns purple worm t rigged no weight. 1985. 10 lb 4oz ....yr before that a 9-4 on a live frog at 9 30 at night .aint caught nothing that big sense then a few 8s lotsa 7s 6s 5s lost count. Tryin to break that state record still aint found a worthy pond to fish needs to be old,and unfished
8.13 lbs in a southwest Iowa lake. I haven't caught anything over 6 since that day 3 years ago.
Storm Mid-Wart that hit on top before I even started cranking. Not sure on the color but I've since bought 9 of the color on eBay!
10lbs 2ozs on a Zoom Magnum Lizard in watermelon seed
I've hit the 5lb mark 3 times for smallmouth, once on a chartreuse shad 97mr slender pointer, once on a watermelon gold flake trick worm on a pro slider head, and once on a BDS Zero Lucky Craft crankbait in American Shad.
Largemouth- 1/2oz Booyah Boo Jig w/ big texan pit boss trailer
Smallmouth- Livetarget Emerald Shiner Jerkbait
Black Jitterbug
250mm of Deps Flash Carp goodness.
4 lb. largemouth texas rigged Zoom U-Tail worm green pumpkin w/chartreuse Tail. (Still have the actual worm put up for safe keeping)
My PB Smallmouth was on a Shakey Head and magnum shakey head worm. My PB largemouth was on a small senko rigged on a drop shot.
9.78 on a june bug Brush Hog
Mike
SMB - 4" hand poured finesse worm on DS rig
LMB - t-rig baby brushhog in green pumpkin
Chartruese/White 3/8oz Chatterbait w/ Ale Wife Cane Thumper Trailer
Largemouth: black jitterbug
Smallmouth: Frog pattern skitter pop
Rapala squarebill crankin' rap 03 in red craw.
Largemouth: Senko 5"
Smallmouth: Zoom grub 5"
Rapala Shad Rap SR7 SD.
Skinny dipper on a fish head spin.
Largemouth 6lbs (First one on Seibert outdoors pbj jig with netbait paca chunk in watermelon spice color. Second one on watermelon seed fluke)
Smallmouth 3.75lbs (wacky rig, watermelon/green pumpkin laminate senko)
just under 7#'s on a Booyah poppin' pad crasher
Live Bait: Nightcrawler, at Lake Perris, in the evening, in the heat of summer, last year, gin clear water, high of 108 that day, semi-desert location in socal.
My 2 PBs:
6lb 9oz on a Berkley Havoc Pit Boss in Big Texan
6lb 2oz on a Strike King Coffee Tube in Smoke Red/Black
1/4oz shaky head with a black/blue ragetail craw. Hopping it around a boat dock with brush piles.
10.2 on a bama rig
10.18 on a 4.5" rattlesnake
10.10 on a zoom trick worm
G-finish shad Zara Spook.
LMB---Sizmic Toad
SMB--Jitterbug
Largemouth----Chatterbait with Live Magic Shad trailer
Smallmouth---- Zoom 4" curly tail worm--Mojo rig.
I caught a 7.3 largemouth that hit a 2lb largemouth that hit a LC pointer. So technically I caught it on live bait. But it still counts to me!
C-rigged zoom swimmin fluke green pumpkin red flake. Barely felt a tap...
8.1 on a lunk3rhunt LUNKER frog in green tea
Original lunker lure buzzbait, 6 pounds 14 ounces. My best this year was a 5 pound 5 ouncer on a cavitron buzzbait. Both my other six pluses came on zoom lizards.
First broke 6 this year. Twice. Both on Rage Tails: one on green Cut-R, one on green Bug
I'm fascinated by the range of replies. Guess that's what keeps this interesting and also keeps the Bait Monkey alive and kicking
PB 1/4oz black and blue jig with a black and blue rage craw trailer. It was soooo cold out I was about to call it a day. My hands were absolutely freezing.
My best this year has been on either a s-waver or deps ss I don't remember really
PB was caught with a T-rigged Brush Hog (Watermelon Candy.)
Largest this year was on a Spro Aruku Shad Lipless Crank (Magic Shad.)
I've caught the most 4 lbers + on a green pumpkin jig with a beaver trailer. I caught my PB on a skinny dipper in white trash color
Personal best and second to personal best were each caught on Glass Shad Raps (White and Chartreuse). I do use other cranks as well but the Shad Rap has been my best.
On 7/22/2014 at 8:43 AM, Bassguytom said:I caught a 7.3 largemouth that hit a 2lb largemouth that hit a LC pointer. So technically I caught it on live bait. But it still counts to me!
That's cheating, LOL. Who ever said bass don't eat bass.
caught my PB dropshotting a nightcrawler for catfish one night
Rat-L-Trap
1/4 once strike king bitsy flip jig in green pumpkin craw with a 4 inch havoc craw fatty in watermelon candy- LMB
Excalibur popper in shad pattern-SMB
White Sizmic toad, 7' MHF Avid, Shimano Castaic reel with 50# Power Pro.
6 or 7 pounder on a blue and black 3/8 oz jig with a blue craw trailer
3/8 oz. Terminator Spinnerbait in solid white.
One of you high school kids should pile through this thread and create a bar graph for us old guys. This is your "back-to-school" homework.
I'm seeing a lot of jigs and t-rigs, not a lot of patterns!
On 7/24/2014 at 1:38 AM, Amarley said:One of you high school kids should pile through this thread and create a bar graph for us old guys. This is your "back-to-school" homework.
I'm seeing a lot of jigs and t-rigs, not a lot of patterns!
I could do that and you mean there is a pattern. That jigs and t rigs catch biguns
Manns 12 inch watermelon jelly worm
Here's your graph as requested! (Not a student, but slow enough at work today that I could make it happen!)
I started out with topwater as a category, then got a lot more towards the end! If I would have known how high the count would be, I would have broken them down further. I also put flukes and skinny dippers together as a similar bait.
For some reason you can't zoom in...here's the photobucket link! http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/zachvu/fish.jpg~original
On 7/24/2014 at 4:15 AM, zachvu said:Here's your graph as requested! (Not a student, but slow enough at work today that I could make it happen!)
I started out with topwater as a category, then got a lot more towards the end! If I would have known how high the count would be, I would have broken them down further. I also put flukes and skinny dippers together as a similar bait.
For some reason you can't zoom in...here's the photobucket link! http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/zachvu/fish.jpg~original
That is awesome!
On a frog called a Ribbit. It sinks slowly and you can bump the stump with it, witch works, but if you reel slowly to keep it at the top and twitch it hear and there, the bass cant keep off of it. I started fishing a new spot and caught my old PB, went back to the spot 2 days later and caught my currant PB. From then on its been my go to lure.
Neko rig with jackall worm. 6lbs smallies
Keitech fat impact. 5lbs largemouth
My PB came around dusk @ Blue Hills Reservoir in the fall of 2012. I used a T-rigged zoom U-tale in gourd green, which is still my best performing worm.
BTW - I hope to post another PB by the end of the season.
Mine was a 7.6 pounder on a 3" pumpkinseed tube bait lol. I borrowed a friend's waders and waded about 10 feet from shore so I could get the bait to the drop-off and... It didn't hit the bait hard, but felt more like I got hung up in weeds. After pulling, I felt the fish on and started getting it in. When it broke water right in front of me, I almost wet myself. This was before cell phone cameras (before cell phones actually) so after I released it, I had a hard time convincing my college fishing buddies that it ever happened.
On 7/24/2014 at 4:15 AM, zachvu said:Here's your graph as requested! (Not a student, but slow enough at work today that I could make it happen!)
I started out with topwater as a category, then got a lot more towards the end! If I would have known how high the count would be, I would have broken them down further. I also put flukes and skinny dippers together as a similar bait.
For some reason you can't zoom in...here's the photobucket link! http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/zachvu/fish.jpg~original
You beat the high schooler to it nice job, jigs and crankbaits
SK KVD 1.5.
LMB: Scum Frog over lily pads...wish I would have weighed it for future comparison sake. This year its been 1/2 oz black buzzbait with Havoc trailer black/purple fleck
SMB: 1/8 oz Mimic Minnow in perch color
The only bass I've ever caught on a lipless crank was my pb, catch a lot of pickerel on it too
This thread has got the Bait Monkey knockin at my window! Good thing my wallet is locked up in my safe ;D
Largemouth on a Mep's Spinner while on a small private lake Crappie fishing, 6lbs 8oz. My best Smallmouth came on a perch rig w/ 2 standoff's and baited with dead minnows cut in half, it weight 7lbs. 6oz. while fishing on Lake Erie. The cool thing about why I was Perch fishing where I caught this smallmouth, was that I found these huge Perch after catching a few while Smalmouth fishing. It was one of my favorite Smallmouth reefs and on a couple occasions we would catch Perch over 14" while fishing tubes , so I tried it with Perch rig's and it ended up being my very best Jumbo Perch spot on Lake Erie.
On 7/24/2014 at 12:29 PM, Capt.Bob said:Largemouth on a Mep's Spinner while on a small private lake Crapie fishing, 6lbs 8oz. My best Smallmouth came on a perch rig w/ 2 standoff's and baited with dead minnows cut in half, it weight 7lbs. 6oz. while fishing on Lake Erie
no picture no care.lol
Smallmouth just over 7lbs. drop shot with no. 1 hook and Berkley gulp alive 3 in. black leech in lake erie
I've caught all my biggest fish on a plain old shaky head rig with a trick worm. 6 lb 11oz was the biggest, followed by 6 lb 9 oz, and then 6 on the dot. Have hooked into bigger fish but lost them
Black Jitterbug at night.
1/2 oz black and blue jig
In january, caught a 7.5 on a monday , and the 8.6 you see in my picture 2 days after that on a green pumpkin red missile bait baby d-bomb texas rigged with a red gamagatsu 3/0 EWG hook and a 1/4 oz strike king tungsten bullet weight.
6.5 pounds on a T rigged brush hog in Watermelon color
13.4 lb LM on a 9" Cherry Seed Mann's Jelly worm.
T-rigged watermelon senko
Both over 8 pounds:
1. Green Pumpkin Zoom trick worm on a shaky head jig head.
2. Sexy Shad Bandit 100 Bandit crankbait.
Kvd sexy shad swim jig with a havoc beat shad
Texas rigged Pit Boss
10.3 caught at noon on a bright sunny day in 1994. 1/2oz lead weight and a Zoom Centipede in watermelon red.
10.2 caught at night fishing 1/4oz tungsten and a baby brush hog.
This homemade job:
black berkley worm
LM=7" power worm in tequila sunrise, rigged with a split shot 8" up the line.
SM=chart 3/8 chatterbait
My two best came on a Zoom 4" watermelon dead ringer and a Suddreth crankbait, char./ white.
LM: this spring off a powerbait fire tiger swimbait
D-shad or senko can't remember. GYB rocks!
LM: 3/8oz black/blue Dirty Jigs football jig with Okeechobee Craw Zoom Super Speed Craw trailer
SM: 1/4oz lipless crankbait in a gold shad with black back pattern (foil not chrome)
Was a black and yellow skirt single blade spinner bait
Rapala X-walk 13
War eagle PB&J jig with a matching Havoc Pit Boss