What lure caught your biggest bass in 2017 ? 2024
scaleface reply :
I didnt catch a big fish this past year . An 8 inch blue Jelly Worm , I think nabbed the largest .
Not much , a bad year for big fish but a good year for limits of 15 inch keepers .
AndrewJ reply :
I had the same luck as you, the biggest bass I caught this past year came on a 4.5 inch roboworm on a dropshot.
Russ E reply :
Last year my biggest largemouth was 5 lbs and my largest smallmouth was 4.5 lbs.
Both were caught on a 6 inch trick worm on a shaky head.
ZebcoZak reply :
Spent most of my last year chasing trophy catfish, but my largest bass came on a wacky rigged 5" green pumpkin senko. Fish was about 4 pounds, which is decent for my lake here in central ohio. They electro fished last year and largest that came out of the whole lake was 5.2 pounds.
Bluebasser86 reply :
A homemade football jig caught my biggest largemouth of last year, 6.65 pounds. Already caught 2 bigger than that this year 
I didn't catch a smallmouth worth remembering last year unfortunately thanks to constant high water conditions.
Dens228 reply :
8 pound 3 ounces on a purple wacky rigged Senko.
Jelvas reply :
2.4kg (+- 5.2oz) on a black and red 3/4oz Colmic Gamera Jig with a zoom z craw trailer.
Scarborough817 reply :
spro little john dd in cell mate
RichF reply :
My biggest bass of 2017 luckily came in tournaments (both big wins). A 6 pound largemouth on a Spro frog and two six pound smallies, one on a 3.5" green pumpkin coffee tube, the other on a 3.5" Biffle bug.
fishballer06 reply :
Dirty Jigs swim jig in Okeechobee 420 color, with a Rage Menace Grub in watermelon seed color on the back. Caught on the 4th of July.
Dtrombly reply :
Pad Crasher caught my 2 biggest bass last year, 5 lbs even and a 6lb 8oz, both largemouth. Caught within 20 minutes of each other and they were the only 2 bites I had that day
d-camarena reply :
Culprit 9 inch fat max. Okechobee color. I was swimming it like a swimbait on a jig head.
lo n slo reply :
this 5+ LM on a 5” june bug Zoom lizard in late October. so dont let anyone tell you that a lizard is only a springtime lure.
Dorado reply :
4 lb LMB caught late summer on a weightless Zoom Trick Worm in Candy Bug. I can't break #5 :/
NHBull reply :
5+ LM on a Dredger CB in 8 ft of water
scaleface reply :
On 1/19/2018 at 11:07 PM, lo n slo said:this 5+ LM on a 5” june bug Zoom lizard in late October. so dont let anyone tell you that a lizard is only a springtime lure.
Cousin and I won a large tourney using lizards in September .
On 1/19/2018 at 11:19 PM, NHBull said:5+ LM on a Dredger CB in 8 ft of water
What kind of boat is that ? I fish from a 22 foot Lowe deck boat .
riverbasser reply :
6# in October on a seiberts brush jig with rage menace trailer
NHBull reply :
On 1/19/2018 at 11:27 PM, scaleface said:Cousin and I won a large tourney using lizards in September .
What kind of boat is that ? I fish from a 22 foot Lowe deck boat .
That was a Bennington 2250 GSR which is now retired for a Lund
2tall79 reply :
5-6 LM on a 6" black PowerBait Lizard, T rigged
LonnieP reply :
5,7 and 8 pounder all caught on a Ratl-trap
NYWayfarer reply :
Biggest Bass of 2017:
3 and a half pound LMB on a Yum Dinger
3 pound SMB on a Z-Man TRD
MBB Nate reply :
Black and Blue poppin pad crasher. No idea on weight, but it was almost 29 inches.
Columbia Craw reply :
Rage Craw
Djohn reply :
5.5 Largemouth on a 3.5" tube and 4.8 Smallmouth on a Fat Ika both in green pumpkin.
WI_Angler1989 reply :
I don't know how much she weighed, but it was a Smallie around 21" based on a rough measuring.
Caught on a 2.5" Cabin Creek Tube on a Cadman's Smallie Crawlin jig. Seems like my beat fish ALWAYS come on that presentation.
riverbasser reply :
I netted this fish for my partner during a tournament in June. She weighed 9.25. All shoulders no belly, caught on a black spro popping frog
Bassin' Brad reply :
7.25 lb pig on a 5" black with green and red specked T rigged yum dinger.
IndianaFinesse reply :
6.7 pound largemouth on a vision 110, followed by a 6.5 (also on the vision 110) two casts later
Can't remember exactly what my biggest smallie weighed, but it was about 5 or just under if I remember right. Caught her burning a 1/4 ounce ratt-l-trap.
Troy85 reply :
4.5lb largemouth on a Carolina rigged June bug colored straight tail worm.
mllrtm79 reply :
biospawn exostick (red bug) weightless wacky rig on 1/0 gammy weedless finesse wide gap...
Boomstick reply :
I caught a 20"+ smallmouth on a War Eagle Extreme Trokar Colorado/Willow Sexy Shad spinnerbait, on my first cast of the day too. I didn't take my scale with me unfortunately.
I got skunked the rest of the day.
Logan S reply :
Largemouth I'm not sure on, biggest one I weighed was 5-11 (right side in pic) but I got one that I think might have been bigger but I didn't weigh it since it was a practice day (left side in pic, longer and bigger head - but spawned out). The 5-11 was caught flipping a Rage Bug into log jams and the unknown LM was on a Shakeyhead/Trickworm skipped under a dock.
Smallmouth is also unknown weight since it was also a practice day, but it was easily my biggest SM of the year. Caught on a Pointer 65 and 6lb line .
Spotted bass is yet again unknown even though it was on a tournament day...I just had a 4lb LM that day also so I never bothered to weigh the spots individually. I probably had 5 or 6 spots of similar size to this one also on the same trip...Spots are only found in 1 lake that I fish on a regular basis and they are relatively new to that lake as well. Big spots all came on a Vision 110.
I typically only weigh single fish if they are the lunker of a tournament bag. I have a good idea of what the unknown fish weigh but no reason to post a guess 
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Angry John reply :
Duo dr62 caught me a 6lb 2oz lmb in spring. Swaiver 168 caught me a 5lb 9 Oz and a 5 12Oz in the fall.
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
I caught 7.7# on white 3/8 oz Chatterbait in shallow weedy area. 2nd largest 5.8# came from 08 Rapala Husky Jerk. My water is pretty muddy with only a foot or two of visibility.
crypt reply :
7lbs. BB-cricket
The Bassman reply :
My biggest of '17 (7 lb.ish) came on a dink bass stuck to a #5 Rippin' Rap. Both bass were released unharmed.
clh121787 reply :
11.4 , 6th sense dd500 gizzard or threadfin , I forget. 
CroakHunter reply :
On 1/20/2018 at 12:05 AM, MBB Nate said:Black and Blue poppin pad crasher. No idea on weight, but it was almost 29 inches.
Close to the world record in length
burrows reply :
Black and blue senko
Dwight Hottle reply :
Biggest largemouth caught on a Deps Balisong DD jerk bait & biggest smallie caught on a Smithwick Rogue DD jerk bait.
Bankbeater reply :
4-1/2 pounder on a black jig with a black craw trailer. Got that one around some lily pads in about 3 feet of water.
drew4779 reply :
Caught three 5 pounders this last year. Two on a black strike king football jig w/a Bps triple ripple craw trailer and one on a t-rigged crazy legs chigger crawl (bream) with a 4/0 ewg and 1/8 Oz. gold bullet weight. Also caught a quite a few in the 4+ range with a t-rigged venom tube (roadkill). All but one were prespawn. This past summer was rough.
Chefster reply :
Biggest largemouth was caught on a under spin with a fluke in December. 8.9 pounds
Biggest spotted bass on a lucky craft rto dd. Just over 6 pounds.
I did catch a gigantic catfish on a whopper plopper.
da_linx reply :
A 5,5 pounder with a custom painted in craw pattern flatsided coffin lip crank (an evergreen flatside replica).
I have caught several good bass in this lure this year in the rip raps.
A-Jay reply :
10-6 on Zoom Mag Fluke
7-5 on a Biovex Spinnerbait
A-Jay
SeeNoSun reply :
A couple of late season Yak trips to the Rez paid off for me.
11/15/17 - Launched out of Lake Ridge Marina. Water Temps: 52 Size: Just under 20" / 5# Lure: Spinnerbait Location: Middle of a cove in submerged timber.
11/30/17 - Launched out of Fountainhead. Water Temps: 47 Size: 20.25" / 5.5# (PB for the 2017 season) Lure: Jig & Pig Location: Main Lake Point
Stingray23 reply :
No big LM in 2017 for me but I caught my PB 4lb 10oz smallmouth on a MB vision 110.
snake95 reply :
4.25 lb largemouth on a Netbait Paca craw in the Coosa Special color, on a VMC 1/4 oz rugby head.
For some reason for the years 2015-2017, 2017 was the year with the fewest fish over 4 lb.
Thanks to Bass Resource, it was the year of the most consistent bass fishing, and I taught a lot of kids and their Dads to catch them - that was a definite "win" for 2017. 
Dorado reply :
After reading all these replies, I need to start throwing a jerk bait this year.
NoahWatts reply :
Didn’t have a scale but the biggest of 2017 was on a River2Sea BullyWaII
J._Bricker reply :
My best one was this 8lber on blades.
Way north bass guy reply :
Best smallie in the boat was just over 5, on a drop shot Berkley gulp 4” minnow, smelt colour
Best largemouth also just above 5, green pumpkin Berkley power thief flipped into a small cabbage bed.
A-Jay reply :
On 1/20/2018 at 8:59 AM, Dorado said:After reading all these replies, I need to start throwing a jerk bait this year.
These two from last season (just shy of 12 lbs) can totally vouch for that as a solid plan ~
A-Jay
BassObsessed reply :
7.5lber on a 4 inch swimbait.
Dorado reply :
On 1/20/2018 at 10:04 AM, A-Jay said:
These two (just shy of 12 lbs) can totally vouch for that as a solid plan ~
A-Jay
Sweet mother of
standman reply :
10th (give or take) EVER cast with whoper plopper 90.
Only 5.5lb, but it was (is?) my PB.
N Florida Mike reply :
8.6 pounds , caught on a 4 inch red w/black watermelon GY senko.
38 Super Fan reply :
Hard jerkbait, just like last year, and the year before that.
Kyhokie reply :
7.5 on a 1/2 oz. Chrome/black rattletrap and an 8 on a 5" paddletail
CroakHunter reply :
10.5 inch excite baits maximus worm. 6/0 ewg 3/8 ounce weight. 7lbs 2oz. My pb...for now
GrumpyOlPhartte reply :
Dang! My biggest largemouth was 4.2 pounds (according to my cheap-o scale). Looks more like it would have been bait for some of the slobs a few of you tied into. Caught it on a six-inch BioSpawn Exostick (black/blue). Got my personal best smallmouth on a twelve-inch Zoom Ol’ Monster (South Africa) but it doesn’t count since I was fishing for largemouths and it (a.) wasn’t supposed to be in warm shallow water and (b.) had no business hitting a worm that big. (Not that I’m complaining.)
lmbfisherman reply :
My two biggest was 2 4.5 lb small mouth. 1 one a super fluke the other on a Berkley Powebait two inch minnow. Both were white. My biggest Largie was just over 3lbs, caught with a Super fluke.
BassWhole! reply :
Swim jig, a tad under 8.
JackDaReeler reply :
Didn't weigh it but all my bass this year were caught on BPS brand swimtail worms.
Mike L reply :
7" Junebug Fat Max ribbon tail.
Dont remember the exact weight but her mouth looked bigger than a toilet bowl!!????????
Mike
dam0007 reply :
Biggest Smallie of 2017 5.18lb on a @Siebert Outdoors Custom Chatter Bait!
aatwofour reply :
5.86 lb LMB and was caught on a 3/8 oz White Terminator Pro Series Jig with a Bone White Silver Gene Larew Hammer Craw as the trailer. Swimming it
Porkrind reply :
Storm Arashi (blue back herring) rattling flat 7 caught me this one which was just over 6lbs if I remember right. Long and lean she was.
whitwolf reply :
R.I. Skinny Dipper on the color Bullfrog. Sadly it was only 4+.
Catt reply :
Didn't get on the big fish at all last year!
The one on the bank was on a Speed Worm!
Didn't bother weighting em ????
My grandson Aiden is always on big fish but he does have a pretty good guide!
Baby Brush Hog Watermelon Neon
Fishinthefish reply :
8.7lb fish on a bagley balsa spintail.
BASS302 reply :
My largest bass for 2017 was caught on a redeye shad, but it was only 14 . . . . . . . . . INCHES (LOL). I don't have much spare time to go fishing these days.
ww2farmer reply :
I had a down year for big fish.
Only two over 6lbs.... one caught on a beaver flipped under a dock, one on a swim jig.
Only a dozen and a half or so 5lb er's, biggest was a 5-13 caught on a jig when I took bclark7b out on our yearly spring trip.
ZERO 5lb + fish in tournaments this past season. Biggest was an upper 4lber.
ZERO 5lb + smallmouth this past season, but lots of mid to upper 4's.
That's not humble bragging....it really is/was a lower than average year for me for big ones. I am used to getting at least 1/2 dozen 6+'s, more 5+'s than I can remember , and getting at least one 5+ every few tournaments with largemouth. With smallmouth I always seem to get a handful of 5+'s every year, but not this past season for some reason.
NorthwestBasser reply :
Biggest LMB of 2017: 5.26lbs buzzbait (snooze alarm)
WA State
Biggest SMB of 2017: 4.91lbs
Crankbait in 10 f.o.w, color: perch pattern
Idaho
Arobb2012 reply :
My biggest smallie wasn't that big but a decent 17 inches. I caught it on a megabass sexy french pearl popmax.
boostr reply :
5lbr on a BPS black Kermi.
webertime reply :
6lb lm on a Pointer 100sp
MIbassyaker reply :
5.25# on a 3/8oz Stanley Spinnerbait, Gold/Silver double-willow, "Golden Bream" skirt
dam0007 reply :
Idk this guy might’ve been bigger but I didn’t weigh him... Smalljaws on a DT10.
bwillis reply :
5lb largemouth on a Savage Gear Lily Ninja frog
SJex reply :
A 4lb LM with a 1/15oz ned rigged Zman TRD Mudbug Tubez.
drscholl14 reply :
KVD 2.5 Squarebill. Chartreuse black back. 4.5 lber was the biggest I got last season.
Pro Logcatcher reply :
A weightless trick worm skipped waaay deep under a dock.
tim_kovar reply :
The bass in my profile picture came on a white strike king buzz bait this past fall. Of course it was while I was pre-fishing for a tournament. Still a blast to catch though.
Hawkeye21 reply :
Caught my personal best largemouth of 4-14 last May on a black and blue Chatterbait. I also caught my personal best smallmouth of 4-8 last September on the same lure. Love that lure.
Dorado reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 6:09 AM, Justin62882 said:I caught alot of nice fish on that chatterbait. My friend for his personal best last February on that black and blue. 9 pounds 11 ounces. Also seen him catch a 4,5,and 6 pounder in 5 casts. Same lure. Trailer of choice for both of us for that chatter is a zoom black lizard blue tail with head torn off.
I would've never thought to use that modified lizard as a chatterbait trailer. Style points right there!
Dorado reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 7:09 AM, Justin62882 said:My 2nd favorite chatterbait/lizard combo is a chartreuse and white charter with a cotton candy lizard. I actually just ordered more cotton candy lizards about 2 hours ago. I only use them for this application. I've never tried them another way I may need to but i caught alot of bass that way last year. Bigger bass came from the black blue. More bites came from this application though.
I fish a lot at night, so I can see the black blue combo being lethal. Maybe my next PB will come from this 'bump in the night'. Great tips, brother thanks! I would've NEVER thought of that for a trailer.
Hawkeye21 reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 6:09 AM, Justin62882 said:I caught alot of nice fish on that chatterbait. My friend for his personal best last February on that black and blue. 9 pounds 11 ounces. Also seen him catch a 4,5,and 6 pounder in 5 casts. Same lure. Trailer of choice for both of us for that chatter is a zoom black lizard blue tail with head torn off.
I used the Yamamoto Senko Swim bait as a trailer. Worked great but the don't last long at all. I went through a lot of bags last year. I'm going to try Z-Man's this year with their ElaZtech plastic.
Hawkeye21 reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 7:53 AM, Justin62882 said:I have a couple bags. I haven't xaught a fish on them. I haven't given them there fair shake though but for w.e reason for me the zman ones I got dont stay on my chatterbait that well.
Did you get the DieZel ones? I have never used them so I don't know how well they'll work. I just know the plastic lasts longer.
Smalls reply :
Caught my largest on a black/red football jig I picked out of the $1 bin paired with a watermelon/red flake beaver craw. Middle of the day in the middle of summer.
Pitched off the bank to underneath an overhanging tree in maybe a foot and a half of water and she violently choked it down just as I was about to reel it in.
Biggest smallmouth ate a chartruese/Black back KVD 1.5.
I dug it into a grass patch and ripped it out.
MichaelCopeland reply :
The biggest one I hauled in last year was only 4lbs caught on a red bug 10.5" Ol' Monster. I sure do miss that little pond by the house I used to live in down in Pineville. Will be doing my very best to top that this year. Who knows, maybe tomorrow it will happen or at least my first bass of the year. I'm going to Wallace Lake in the morning to try out some of my new baits/lures my awesome friend @A-Jay sent me. ????
LxVE Bassin reply :
Cinnamon 5 Inch Senko
MNGeorge reply :
6 pounder on a white wacky stick worm.
RUSS9999 reply :
2017 was not much of a year for me. Best bass was on a KVD 1.5 a round 3 pounds. My sons best bass was 4.8 on a storm swim bait.
Stalking bass reply :
All of my big bass both large and small were caught on sieberts jigs with rage craw trailers. It was my wifes first year bass fishing. She caught some really nice bass using them also.
Hillbilly Bennett reply :
A brand of Popper that shall remain nameless caught my biggest fish. It was a shade over 5. That and a senko caught more bigger fish than anything else in 2017. Spring and fall were really good to me last year but the dog days of summer put a whoopin on me like I’ve never had before. I’m ready for the prespawn in 2018!
JoePhish reply :
Biggest Largemouth was a bit over 20 inches on a Strike King 6XD in Black Back/Chartreuse.
Biggest Smallmouth was 18 inches on a Chrome (BS) Zerek Sabre Dance 85.
jamey1e reply :
7 lbs on a Strike King 6XD in natural shad. Next largest was 6 1/2 on the same bait. One in April the other in July.
kingmotorboat reply :
4.18 pound largemouth on a quarter ounce speed craw on a Dobyns savvy 766 with 50 pound braid.
iceintheveins reply :
A 4" white senko of all lures. Caught this 7.17, my new personal best.
NorthwestBasser reply :
On 2/5/2018 at 12:15 PM, iceintheveins said:A 4" white senko of all lures. Caught this 7.17, my new personal best.
Pics never do justice, this fish looks 4-5 at best. Nice job breaking 7lbs man, I'm hoping to get there this year!
SDoolittle reply :
I didn't catch anything that I would consider "big" in 2017. This one was 5.25 lbs. I caught it on a Zoom Finesse Worm.
iceintheveins reply :
On 2/5/2018 at 2:46 PM, NorthwestBasser said:Pics never do justice, this fish looks 4-5 at best. Nice job breaking 7lbs man, I'm hoping to get there this year!
It was weighed and measured. Length was 23 inches.
NorthwestBasser reply :
On 2/6/2018 at 10:13 AM, iceintheveins said:It was weighed and measured. Length was 23 inches.
I wasn't calling b.s. on you, just stating pics never do justice. I've caught 5lbers that were chunky monkies, then look @ the pics later and almost don't wanna show anyone, haha... so like I said, good job breaking 7, hope I can do the same
iceintheveins reply :
Yep, you are right, they never do justice.
custer reply :
6lb 9oz, tourney on Chowan on a home made rat crankbait......
Sam reply :
White buzzbait.
Four and a half pounds.
Fish the Mitt reply :
White/Chartreuse 3/8oz Original Chatterbait w/ a Keitech Swing Impact trailer. Weight was around 5 (teetered between high 4's and 5 lol) .
Spankey reply :
I had two River Smallies that were basically identical. A fraction under 22". Cotton Cordell Big "O" in baby bass and a Zoom 4 3/4" finesse worm in baitfish.
YoTone reply :
Strike king burner spinnerbait
Koz reply :
My biggest was a 5.75 pound largemouth on a Bone Whopper Plopper 110.
My 12 year old son caught his largest - 5.8 pounds - on a Lunkerhunt Double Willow Frog spinnerbait.
And all winter long I've had to hear him remind me he that was the season Champion by 5/100 of a pound!
Ads7633 reply :
7.05 on a chrome/blue rattletrap
Bpool reply :
Bone whopper plopper 90 in august
Megabass Knuckle 90 in December
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