What lure caught your biggest bass in 2019 ? 2024

scaleface reply :

This is the sixth year I started this thread . I should look back at the other threads and tally them up . You can separate species if you want . Largemouth , spot or smallie .

This year it was a Stanley Ribbet , 6.47 Lbs largemouth.

Hook2Jaw reply :

An H2O Xpress Ultimate Jerk Shad. She was 6.72 pounds. Largemouth, early February.

HazeRVA reply :

3/8oz Booyah Glow Blade spinnerbait, white with white double willow blades. 5.73lbs April 20.

MN Fisher reply :

Jawbone Spinnerbait, Willow/Colorado blades, 3/8oz, Yellow/Chartreuse skirt, 3" Pumpkin-Green Flake Berkley Chigger Craw trailer. LMB 3.94#, end of July (it's the one in my profile pic)

ohboyitsrobby reply :

A lucky strike bass magic hollow body swimbait on a half ounce fish head Greg Vinson swimbait head. Weighed 5.8 lbs. Caught a 3+ lb spot on a drop shot berkley havoc bottom hopper too.

Alrab23 reply :

Strike King Finesse Jig a brown and purple color.. Just a few ounces shy of 6lbs.

PhishLI reply :

Nories Spoon Tail Shad 5"- 23 1/2" LM.

Beast Coast Miyagi-21 1/2" SM.

Dark Sleeper 3" 3/4oz-29" Walleye.

schplurg reply :

Caught from shore:

Zoom Super Fluke T-Rigged Eagle Claw 4/0 WG with 10 pound mono

5 1/4 pound LMB (My PB)

Walmart Crank Bait, 10 pound mono

4 3/4 pound LMB. Same bank spot as above (PB runner up)

A-Jay reply :

Biggest Green Bass totally destroyed a 6 in Storm Wild Eye Swim Shad.

She was a gorgeous Mexican Bass and went 9.67 lbs.

Biggest Brown Bass ate a Neg Rig, Green Pumpkin Big TRD. She was a goby turd shy of 7 lbs.

(Don't tell David Dudley though).

:smiley:

A-Jay

MickD reply :

Ned rig, the little one, New Money, 6-7 SMB. New Money is mostly green.

Smallies like green. An acquaintance who does pretty well only takes one color to Lake St Clair, and it's of course. . . green. My best tube color is usually green with red fleck, but last trip of the year a green with all sorts of colors of flecks worked best.

NittyGrittyBoy reply :

Didnt weigh, Smithwick Devilshorse (modified)

April 26, 2019

Log Catcher reply :

Zoom Baby Brush Hog. LMB around 4 pounds. Didn't catch any SMB big enough to even mention.

Dens228 reply :

3/8 oz swim jig in Threadfin Shad color with a 3.8" Keitech paddletail. Didn't weigh it, it was 22.25 inches.

Bird reply :

Biggest " 5.9 LM " came on drop shot Roboworm.....people's worm.

Lost a much bigger fish on white double willow spinnerbait.

Smallies? eh, they hit anything around here. Lol

keagbassr reply :

Lmb: double wide beaver, 6-10

Smb: spinnerbait, 3-6

the reel ess reply :

Whopper Plopper 110. The bass was 7.92 lb. and a PB. I don't really know if it had anything to do with the bait as my last 2 PBs bit as soon as the bait hit water. It wasn't an explosion as you might imagine from a PB on a topwater. The bait just disappeared and I set the hook. It was July.

813basstard reply :

Rapala lipless crankbait, original Shad color.

Middle of the summer

9.13

afree reply :

6.81 LMB on the Ned. (1/15th ounce, green head, green pumpkin elaZtech)

Mike L reply :

7.91 on a June Bug Magnum Speed Worm.

Mike

jbsoonerfan reply :

8.2 on a 1/2 oz Greenfish Ballistic HD Spinnerbait in Sun Gill

Hartwood71 reply :

6.5 in Palm Beach a County on Green&white senko, wacky.

Cool to see all the different baits in this thread. Proves, lotta ways to skin a cat.

Mike L reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 8:41 AM, NittyGrittyBoy said:

Didnt weigh, Smithwick Devilshorse (modified)

April 26, 2019

Howdy

If it’s not a secret and willing to share (If it is and you’re not, I understand)

What modification did you do to it?

Mike

Harold Scoggins reply :

Spro King Daddy Frog. (Night Fishing)

Bluebasser86 reply :

SK Tungsten 2tap, Delta Red, 6.5lb largemouth

Duo Realis Rozante 77, Neo Pearl, 5.83lb smallmouth (PB)

txchaser reply :

8.0 LM 6th sense mini mag silent in greenback shad

walleyecrazy reply :

I didn’t catch any monsters last year, but my biggest came on a 2.4” Megabass Dark Sleeper.

Steelhead reply :

LMB: 1/2 ZinkerZ Watermelon 1/15oz. green pumpkin Finesse Shroomz 6.4(PB)

SMB: Evergreen Shower Blows 105 Natural Gill 5.1

Bass Ninja reply :

My PB, 6.8lb, 23 inch LMB that I got in August, caught on a white and red willow leaf Strike King spinner bait from Walmart.

Catt reply :

Zoom Mag II Plum Crazy ????

LargeMarge reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 10:33 AM, Hartwood71 said:

6.5 in Palm Beach a County on Green&white senko, wacky.

Cool to see all the different baits in this thread. Proves, lotta ways to skin a cat.

Yep! I think the biggest takeaway is that you don't NEED to use a big bait to catch big fish. Like @Catt always says, you gotta fish where the big fish live.

My PB largemouth in 2019 came on a TX rigged tequila sunrise power worm, unpegged 3/16oz tungsten bullet. 6.2

Hawkeye21 reply :

5-12 largemouth on a black/blue jackhammer chatterbait on Easter.

BassNJake reply :

5.7 lb largemouth Keitech Noisy flapper (hand poured copy using remelts)

4.6 lb smallmouth Shower Blows Mat Hot Tiger

Love a topwater!!

On 1/14/2020 at 9:36 AM, the reel ess said:

Whopper Plopper 110. The bass was 7.92 lb. and a PB. I don't really know if it had anything to do with the bait as my last 2 PBs bit as soon as the bait hit water. It wasn't an explosion as you might imagine from a PB on a topwater. The bait just disappeared and I set the hook. It was July.

Seems like the bigger ones just suck it in, where as the smaller ones can get crazy attacking a topwater

wisconsin heat reply :

Didn't get a weigh, but thinking in the 4 pound neighborhood. Caught on a Strike King Rodent on a BOSS finesse flip jig ( no skirt).

Caught it on the best looking spot on the lake, a big tree fallen into the water vertically next to cliff, the only straight vertical drop on the lake.

haggard reply :

Largemoth unknown weight (no scale yet) on a 6" Yum Thump'n Dinger, watermelon with red flake, TX rigged with 3/8 oz bullet.

the reel ess reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 9:51 PM, BassNJake said:

5.7 lb largemouth Keitech Noisy flapper (hand poured copy using remelts)

4.6 lb smallmouth Shower Blows Mat Hot Tiger

Love a topwater!!

Seems like the bigger ones just suck it in, where as the smaller ones can get crazy attacking a topwater

On an earlier trip in the same vacinity, I had another big one come flying out of the water like Shamu with its mouth closed. It was trying to stun the bait. I made a lot of follow up casts with different baits to no avail.

plawren53202 reply :

Zoom Super Fluke, bluegill flash color, Texas rigged weightless on a Gamakatsu 4/0 EWG hook

largemouth between 4 and 5 pounds (no scale or tape measure with me)

Hook2Jaw reply :

Me :

bait monkey : BUY ALL THESE LURES

kjfishman reply :

H2o Express Shad color square bill

Landis Carrier reply :

7lb11oz by far my PB on a 110 Loon Whopper Plopper.

Tizi reply :

2019 PB: 4.2 lb largemouth caught on Zoom Super Fluke bluegill flash, rigged weightless/Texas style.

Overall PB 5.8 lb largemouth caught on a Strike King 5XD in yellow perch.

BassNJake reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 11:33 PM, the reel ess said:

On an earlier trip in the same vacinity, I had another big one come flying out of the water like Shamu with its mouth closed. It was trying to stun the bait. I made a lot of follow up casts with different baits to no avail.

I will get a few smallies a year that come flying out of the water next to the bait and they grab it on their way down.

I fish a toad a lot and it seems there are days that they just smack at it like they are trying to stun it.

I used to follow up with my wacky rig and sometimes I would get that second hit not very often though.

I see a lot of people talk about making sure they have their follow up bait ready.

I dont think my success with the follow up is as good as theirs

JS Patterson reply :

I had 5 within a couple ounces of each other at 6 lbs.+/-so I think they are all worth noting. Four were on jigs with a z craw trailer, the second largest was on a squarebill.

dgkasper58 reply :

110 Bone whopper plopper

gar383 reply :

Congrats on the Smallie A-Jay!!! That's one of the biggest I've seen in a while. That's a trophy anywhere in the US!!

lo-fi-hi-fi reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 8:25 PM, LargeMarge said:

Yep! I think the biggest takeaway is that you don't NEED to use a big bait to catch big fish.

????

tander reply :

Junebug Zoom trick worm with shaky head.

Dwight Hottle reply :

Strike King red eye shad 3/4oz lipless 11.5 largemouth PB

Ima flit 120 smallmouth didn't weigh it.

Plottman1974 reply :

5.35 pound largemouth from the bank. Ned rig TRD. peanut butter and jelly color

Chrisenthran reply :

South Africa, Johannesburg. 2019.

2.46 kgs (5.4 lbs) - 3/8 oz SK Premier pro spinner bait, white and chartreuse. Sept (Our spring)

2.15 kgs (4.63 lbs) - Spro bronzeye jnr, leopard. Oct ( Early Summer)

2.06 kgs (4.54 lbs) - Spro bronzeye jnr, leopard. Oct ( Early Summer)

2.19 kgs (4.82 lbs) - 3/8 oz War eagle flipping jig, brown and orange, Zoom Z craw trailer. Jan (Mid summer)

All LMB, sadly no SMB's on the highveld.

bigguy24 reply :

75 Whopper Plopper in Bluegill...the LM was 6lbs 6oz which was/is my PB by far, especially here in Northern IL.

Rpratt reply :

Biggest this year was 5.2 on my trusty Perch flavored KVD 1.5 square bill that I had retired for 2 reasons.

1. I caught my PB with that lure 3 years ago. I retired it because....

2. They don't make that particular color anymore.

3. Scared to lose it lol

Jaderose reply :

Virtually any other year, I would say Frog but this year was different. BAD flooding early in the year changed my home lake a lot and the frogging was poor this year. In fact the fishing was poor in general in 2019. I did have decent luck all summer throwing a weightless T-rigged Blue/black Senko.

Kdizzle reply :

3" Berkley Powerbait Pit Boss in Watermelon Orange flake. 5.2 pound Largemouth, out of what pretty much amounts to a creek.

txchaser reply :

6th sense minimag squarebill, 8.0lb (PB)

runner up was 7.8lb swim senko nearly deadsticked, and with a weighted hook which I almost never do. Found them stacked up and pulled out 10-15 with a keitech on an underspin and a finesse spinnerbait. Big girl was lazy, all that stuff was going too fast.

Bankbeater reply :

Black/blue 3/8 oz jig with a Zoom sapphire super chunk trailer.

papajoe222 reply :

Two fish tied for that honor last season. One was on a 1/2oz jig and RageTail Craw. The other was on an 8in. paddle tail swimbait behind a 1/2oz plain jig head. There is a possibility it was the same fish as I bagged them two weeks apart.

Shockwave reply :

6.2 lb bass on a Pearl White 3/8oz Project Z Chatterbait.

Mbirdsley reply :

One of my home made pbj 3/8 Arkie jigs and rage tail summer craw trailer. Brand new lake and was taking the L when I threw that combo together. Thought it was way to wacky to work. Pitch to a clump of pads. Boom new PB of 18 1/2 inches. Runner up is a bandit 300 root beer crank nailed a 17 1/2 smallie on. After catching many more on the bandit that day I went to m-57 surplus and bought them out

Mr.C in Texas reply :

6.48 lb. on a 3/8 fineness football head with a beaver style trailer slow crawlin....

kayaking_kev reply :

4.6 lbs. on a wacky rig

SC53 reply :

Best was 8-10 on a Gambler Big EZ swim bait in Copperfield.

Second best was 8 even on a wacky rigged Bitters salty sling (senko) in June bug blue tail

Both came at the end of February

SuperDuty reply :

Caught an 8lbs on a white beetle spin.

Ghostshad reply :

SpaceMonkey. WaterMelon Red.8.75 LargeMouth

Taylormade113 reply :

4.8 on a Ned Rig

Choporoz reply :

Four LMB over 20" (no weights) - one each on chatterbait, jig, Rage Bug and senko

Not sure what to make of that....lol

MittenMouth reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 1:29 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

SK Tungsten 2tap, Delta Red, 6.5lb largemouth

Duo Realis Rozante 77, Neo Pearl, 5.83lb smallmouth (PB)

Making my decision to pick up the neo pearl a few months ago seem like a good one!

Googan_Slayer reply :

I caught 2 fish that were 6 3/4lb. Both flipping a texas rig at isolated lilly pads in 4-9 ft. Sweet beaver in flora bama and a magnum structure bug in okeechobee craw.

Basswhippa reply :

7.4 lbs. Alabama Rig.

Boomstick reply :

4.5 lb smallie on a Megabass S-Crank, I think it was the 1.2 size.

RB 77 reply :

My version of a "Senko" in Mexico. Haha. Greenpumpkin W/ Black and Gold flake on a T-Rig in 25-30' of water.

fishballer06 reply :

I'm late to this thread, but my best came on an old reliable.

1/4oz Black Cavitron buzzbait (red blade)

20.5", 4.75lb (+/- .25, didn't have my scale on me that day)

NittyGrittyBoy reply :

On 1/24/2020 at 1:37 AM, fishballer06 said:

I'm late to this thread, but my best came on an old reliable.

1/4oz Black Cavitron buzzbait (red blade)

20.5", 4.75lb (+/- .25, didn't have my scale on me that day)

First big bass entry on a buzz bait, nice..

Love me some Cavitrons.

fishballer06 reply :

On 1/24/2020 at 9:14 PM, NittyGrittyBoy said:

First big bass entry on a buzz bait, nice..

Love me some Cavitrons.

I can remember a guy talking at weigh in's at one of my first tournaments ever. The guy said "I hate throwing buzzbaits. They never catch anything bigger than 14-15."

I just chuckled and kept my mouth shut.

RealtreeByGod reply :

10" Watermelon Purple/Red Flake Power Worm on a Texas Rig, was only like 4.5lbs though.

scaleface reply :

On 1/24/2020 at 9:14 PM, NittyGrittyBoy said:

First big bass entry on a buzz bait, nice..

Love me some Cavitrons.

Theres been a couple of years Buzzbzits caught my biggest bass .

M Bruns reply :

Booyah Poppin Pad Crasher in bullfrog. No scale on this trip of course but she was conservatively a 6 pounder.

Yeezy reply :

5-3 Smallie on a Megabass Pop Max

5-1 Largie on a Megabass Pop X

Smells like fish reply :

20" creek smallie on a Zman CrawZ in molting craw

the reel ess reply :

On 1/14/2020 at 9:38 AM, 813basstard said:

Rapala lipless crankbait, original Shad color.

Middle of the summer

9.13

If it was 9.13 lbs, you can change your PB in your profile.

reelfast reply :

Caught a 5 lber on an underspin with a keitech trailer.

1201vilbig reply :

One extreme to the other - an 8-13 on a 6" Bull Shad and an 8-7 on a Ned (1/2 of a Bumblebee Yum Dinger)

Dumbbassanglr reply :

Whopper plopper 130 white in the rain around 6lb

Burke reply :

Strike King Lipless Crank - Sexy Lavender Shad

Estimated at 5lbs

swhit140 reply :

Caught a 19" & 20" same day on 1/2oz Picasso Shockblade, my scale battery was dead so I didn't get a weight.

Nolanh18 reply :

Largemouth just under 4 on a June bug magnum speed worm

tilapia just shy of 5 pounds on an orange beetle spin

Michigander reply :

1/8 oz Tungsten homemade finesse jig with a TRD craw trailer. Got a 5.59lb Largemouth, which is a solid fish for central Michigan.

Russ E reply :

I am a little late to this party.

2019 was not a great big fish year for me.

the biggest largemouth was 6 pounds 2 ounces on a shakyhead with a trickworm.

the biggest smallmouth was 3 pounds 8 ounces on a berkley drift walker.

2020 seems to be starting off better. On January 20 I caught a 7 pound 6 ounce largemouth on a jerkbait.

hopefully a sign of good things to come.

MIbassyaker reply :

Largmeouth: 20", just a hair under 4lb on a Lucky Craft Slender Pointer 97 jerkbait, "ghost sunfish" color.

Smallmouth: 18.5" on a 4" Strike King Ocho in "candy craw"

Primus reply :

Caught this SW Michigan prespawn fish last May on a 4.8 " Kietech style swimbait threaded on a 1/4 oz. Vike weedless Underspin .

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