Mine was on a shallow diving Rapala Clankin Rap , Red Claw . It was large enough to be an 8 lber , skinny enough to be a five lber , so I'll split the difference and say it was in the 6's .
Rage Tail Rage Blade/ Structure Bug, white on white.
A 7" MS Slammer in Hitch color caught me a very thick, bug-eyed old gal that went 6 on the nose.
Shaky Head using a Zoom green pumpkin trick worm on a jig head next to a metal dock on the Historic James River.
Weighed in at 4.5 pounds.
6 lb Largemouth on a Black/blue booyah jig with a green pumpkin super chunk. .
6 lb Smallmouth on the Ned Rig..
Chatterbait it the fish in my avatar. If I remember correctly it went 7.94#.
Texas rigged rage craw with dirty jigs punch skirt. Didn't get a weight but my 10.5 boot is there for reference
5.9 lb on a strike king premire spinnerbait in a white color. Picture is in my avatar.
6.4 lbs. on a 3/8 oz. white Hart buzzbait.
3 lbs 10 oz on a 4" Senko.
Fish in my avatar. Thinking 7.5 lbs caught on a shaky head with a 5in senko
texas rigged Yamamoto flappin hog in black and blue
I caught my biggest bass fishing for specks with a tiny 2" Berkley swimbait of all things. I was not even expecting a bass to hit it. The specks were boiling up the water all around me and I switched to light tackle when the big one hit.
Heaviest Largemouth came on a Texas Rigged 6 inch June Bug Zoom Lizard ~
Biggest Smallie came on a Bluegill 6th Sense Crush Flat 75X Crankbait ~
A-Jay
duo realis pencil 110. ivory halo color
On 1/17/2016 at 10:46 PM, A-Jay said:Heaviest Largemouth came on a Texas Rigged 6 inch June Bug Zoom Lizard ~
Biggest Smallie came on a Bluegill 6th Sense Crush Flat 75X Crankbait ~
A-Jay
Always love using the zoom lizard..
It was the year of the buzzbait for me:
Cavitron, Strike King, Lunker Lure, a couple of homemade ones, they all have their day
Biggest LM-1/2oz Dirty jigs no jack pitchin' Jig-Magic Craw-Rage Menace Trailer
Biggest SM-Gene Larew Biffle Head-Custom Bick Baits Magic Craw Color Craw
5-15 on a t-rigged venom tube in bad blood roadkill.
7.2 Pound Largemouth: Caught on corn while grass carp fishing
White spinnerbait, double silver blade, chart single tail trailer. 8.1lbs.
My #2 through probably #15 size wise were on that same spinnerbait. There was about a two week stretch during the spawn on some local water that we didn't land a fish under 4lbs.
A buddy also caught his first bass with it that was right at 5lbs. I was freaking out, he was like "Is that good?" lol.
only 19 inches, but had a bowling ball in its belly. little 3 inch swimbait on a scrounger head.
On 1/18/2016 at 12:00 AM, James Frise said:7.2 Pound Largemouth: Caught on corn while grass carp fishing
LOL Bet that was a surprise .
On 1/18/2016 at 12:35 AM, scaleface said:LOL Bet that was a surprise .
It sure was.
Finally got a 20" Smallie on the river on a coppertruese Zinkerz Ned rig style.
6 lb 10 oz Large Mouth on an Xcalibur XCS300 Square Lip. It was the biggest square bill I had in my box, but now I have a couple of SK 8.0's to hopefully get some even bigger bites.
LM-Dropshot with a Strike King dreamshot in green pumpkin
SM-A Spinnerbait made by a guy my uncle knows, they are called Gotcha Spinnerbaits.
6,8 largemouth on a Fat Ika.
I spent a small fortune on lures this past season and my best fish came on an original Rapala F-5 in silver.
LuckEStrike RC2 Jerkbait, went just over 7
Lost a 5-6 pounder at the boat as I was reaching to lip it. That was on a SPRO bronzeye frog in loon color. Official biggest was on generic shad colored spinnerbait that came in a shade over four.
Z-Man bladed jig (aka Chatterbait). Scale was in the truck so I can't really call it a PB, plus she was a little skinny. I'd guesstimate in the upper 5's though. See profile pic, Cross Lake, LA.
I don't remember all the details. I remember post spawn - early June. 10' or so down at the deep edge of a weed line. Heavier home made jika rig, in the 1/2 oz to 5/8 oz range. Bait - can't remember. It was either a green pumpkin with flecks Brush Hog or a Zellemander or the Netbait version of the Brush Hog.
Got my new PB on a D&M Piranha Sexy Shad chatterbait - roughly 7.5 lber
Berkley 6in lizard texas rigged caught a nice 5lb bass and for smallies there was this....red craw crankbait on the good old susky river.
t-rigged havoc craw fatty
10" Blue Fleck 'Ole Monster worm
LM- 4.38 on a LT field mouse 90T in brown
SM- 2.76 on a SK buzzbait with a sassy sally trailer in blue/green
Texas rigged black/red flack Yum Wullee Bullee, she went 7.12.
I don't remember if it was Texas rigged or split shot rigged but it was a five inch Yum-Dinger in windy stained water that caught me my small hog.
6.3 pounds caught on a watermelon red producto tournament worm.7 inch.
5.1 LB largemouth on a strike king buzz bait black skirt
Smallmouth - Damiki Hyrda
Largmouth - Black/blue Buckeye Lures Mop Jig (3/8) with a Blue/black rage craw.
6.6 lb last april...SK Rodent green pumpkin red flake. 3/8 tungsten 3/0 gammy ewg. Pitching it to cypress trees.
6+ on black/blue rage blade with black/blue rage bug
5lb 10oz lmb on 4.5 roboworm on size 1 hook and 8lb line in 18fow.
a bit over 7 on a wakebait (ultra shallow crankbait).
4.57 lb largemouth on a black War Eagle spinnerbait, at about 8:30 PM on a summer evening. PB!
Two bass 6-7# & a 8# Redfish on a Cavitron Buzz Bait!
Don't know the weight or length but I caught it on New Years Eve in 34° weather on a
Rapala BX Jointed Shad
A 4-1/2 lb.largemouth caught on a 3/8 watermelon jig with a green pumpkin Zoom super chunk trailer.
In 2015 I caught 3 Largemouth over 6lbs, all on one of my homemade filipping jigs.
On 1/17/2016 at 10:37 PM, FloridaFishinFool said:I caught my biggest bass fishing for specks with a tiny 2" Berkley swimbait of all things. I was not even expecting a bass to hit it. The specks were boiling up the water all around me and I switched to light tackle when the big one hit.
Doesn't surprise me one bit!I know several speck fishermen who have caught +10 pound bass on small crappie jigs.
On 1/18/2016 at 9:20 AM, soflabasser said:Doesn't surprise me one bit!I know several speck fishermen who have caught +10 pound bass on small crappie jigs.
Here she is! Another St. Johns River bass. I posed the Berkley 2 inch swimbait in her mouth for the photo. She had actually inhaled it and it was well hooked into her tongue deep inside the mouth.
You can see the 2 inch swimbait I posed in her mouth... this fish was close to 2 feet long! Skinny, but long. I guessed her weight just over 9 pounds. (no scale in the boat) In another time of the year fattened up this one could have been in the teens.
I still kid my buddy about this fish because this one is a back of the boat fish- in my own boat too- but I gave him the front casting deck on this day 12-24-2015, and he had all the good new water spots before me, and as we passed this area where the specks were boiling up he was telling me to cast into that spot he had just cast to and got nothing.
I grabbed my 7' ML rod to go for some of the specks boiling up in that spot already rigged with a 2 inch Berkley minnow lure swimbait...
So as we past that spot, I was casting back to it and on my last cast back to it I snagged a branch and jerked it free and just let it free fall and counted it down one-one thousand, two-one thousand and it just stopped. I reeled in the slack and felt the resistance and instantly set the hook not sure if a fish was on or not. Then it took off. My 7 foot ML rod doubled over, my shimano 2000 reel with 10 pound sufix braid screamed! Fish on!
It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get this fish in to the boat. Between my buddy and I it was the biggest bass either of us had caught in 2015 and both of us had 8 pounders under our belt, but this one was a little bigger.
I was not exactly prepared when this one hit. I had switched up to some light tackle for speck fishing when she hit. But man that sufix braid line saved the day!
Here is my second biggest bass of 2015, an 8.4 pounder also caught in the St. Johns river:
And this is what I caught this one on- a 3.5 inch Zoom swimming super fluke, Jr. rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook:
On 1/18/2016 at 9:41 AM, FloridaFishinFool said:Here she is! Another St. Johns River bass. I posed the Berkley 2 inch swimbait in her mouth for the photo. She had actually inhaled it and it was well hooked into her tongue deep inside the mouth.
You can see the 2 inch swimbait I posed in her mouth... this fish was close to 2 feet long! Skinny, but long. I guessed her weight just over 9 pounds. (no scale in the boat) In another time of the year fattened up this one could have been in the teens.
I still kid my buddy about this fish because this one is a back of the boat fish- in my own boat too- but I gave him the front casting deck on this day 12-24-2015, and he had all the good new water spots before me, and as we passed this area where the specks were boiling up he was telling me to cast into that spot he had just cast to and got nothing.
I grabbed my 7' ML rod to go for some of the specks boiling up in that spot already rigged with a 2 inch Berkley minnow lure swimbait...
So as we past that spot, I was casting back to it and on my last cast back to it I snagged a branch and jerked it free and just let it free fall and counted it down one-one thousand, two-one thousand and it just stopped. I reeled in the slack and felt the resistance and instantly set the hook not sure if a fish was on or not. Then it took off. My 7 foot ML rod doubled over, my shimano 2000 reel with 10 pound sufix braid screamed! Fish on!
It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get this fish in to the boat. Between my buddy and I it was the biggest bass either of us had caught in 2015 and both of us had 8 pounders under our belt, but this one was a little bigger.
I was not exactly prepared when this one hit. I had switched up to some light tackle for speck fishing when she hit. But man that sufix braid line saved the day!
Here is my second biggest bass of 2015, an 8.4 pounder also caught in the St. Johns river:
And this is what I caught this one on- a 3.5 inch Zoom swimming super fluke, Jr. rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook:
Those are solid big bass!
My biggest of the year is a current PB: 5lb 2oz largemouth on a 3/8oz Megastrike Cavitron Buzzbait, black blade/black skirt.
My biggest of the year was also my PB and caught on a 3/8 black and blue chatterbait.
Longest bass was on a Northstar Flip and Swim jig in pumpkinseed. Heaviest was on drop shot with a jackal cross tail shad.
My biggest of 2015 was over 10lbs on a 4'' swimbait in a neighborhood pond in the Orlando area . I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants.
Now that's a trophy bass! Keep pushing it out closer to the camera!
Maybe one day I'll catch one that big! I keep trying!
Maybe on shiners! (I'm in Orlando area too- mind if I tag along???)
Jeez, you florida guys! Rub it in some more, why doncha!
On 1/18/2016 at 10:59 AM, MIbassyaker said:Jeez, you florida guys! Rub it in some more, why doncha!
I wish. I had to go on vacation and travel 1000 miles to catch that one lol.
5.09 on a black and blue jig. The last three years my biggest fish have all come on jigs. 5.09, 6.2, and 5.14.
Jim
On 1/18/2016 at 10:47 AM, BassObsessed said:My biggest of 2015 was over 10lbs on a 4'' swimbait in a neighborhood pond in the Orlando area . I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants.
Congratulations on catching a big bass from the shore!
On 1/18/2016 at 11:07 AM, soflabasser said:Congratulations on catching a big bass from the shore!
BassObsessed said: " I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants"
Key word: "find" as in sight fish them off the beds (March) from shore I am guessing.
March = spawn. At that time of the year you can see them sitting on the beds and reach out with your rod tip and tap them on the head and not spook them.
During that time, just for a few weeks, you can see the big ones up close to shore and catch them real easy with some patience.
Some years ago I caught one like this twice in under 2 or 3 minutes off the bed. I caught her once, let her go, tossed the lure into her bed again and caught her a second time and let her go right back to her bed, but the third time I threw my lure at her she would not touch it. I moved on.
Bed fishing for monster bass is just too dam easy.
On 1/18/2016 at 11:12 AM, FloridaFishinFool said:
BassObsessed said: " I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants"
Key word: "find" as in sight fish them off the beds (March) from shore I am guessing.
March = spawn. At that time of the year you can see them sitting on the beds and reach out with your rod tip and tap them on the head and not spook them.
During that time, just for a few weeks, you can see the big ones up close to shore and catch them real easy with some patience.
Some years ago I caught one like this twice in under 2 or 3 minutes off the bed. I caught her once, let her go, tossed the lure into her bed again and caught her a second time and let her go right back to her bed, but the third time I threw my lure at her she would not touch it. I moved on.
Bed fishing for monster bass is just too dam easy.
I do not fish bass on nest,but I consider this +10 pound bass impressive since it was caught from the shore!
Bad year for me fishing. I got out more than ever, just didn't get my butt out early in the morning or late at night. So that definitely may be to blame. Also, we had a tough winter here in the NE last year, so weather may have impacted the fish. I personally think it affected the deer and the bass negatively. Enough excuses....
I caught my biggest bass this year, a paltry 4lb even bass on a terminator spinner bait casted parallel to a dock. I love these spinnerbaits and I just retired one in my favorite color and tied this on. On my first cast the spinnerbait hit the water flat, making a slapping noise like a beaver tail. A Bass hit it instantly and the fight was on. The fish jumped near the boat and I saw something fly through the air. I get the fish unhooked, take some photos and release her. Then, I look down at my line to see if I need to retie and realize that the"something" flying through the air was half the spinnerbait. The spinnerbait wire snapped at the line tie. 100% catch ration on that little bait.
On 1/18/2016 at 11:22 AM, soflabasser said:I do not fish bass on nest,but I consider this +10 pound bass impressive since it was caught from the shore!
It is impressive! This is precisely how Chris Lane won the BassMaster Elite series on the St. Johns River in March of 2014.
Listen to the one key word Chris says at 2:01 in this video "I FOUND these fish on Monday" as in "FOUND" these bass just sitting there on their beds and then went after them hard for his win- a Florida boy using typical Florida bedding bass targeting. Chris Lane targeted bedding bass for his win- winning a 4 day tournament in 3 days targeting stationary big bass on the beds!
Everyone does it!
SM: 4.7 lbs on 3'' watermelon grub
LG: 4.2 lbs on 8'' Havoc Juice worm
I had 3 largemouth over 6 lbs, one of them came on a Strike King 8.0 Magnum Squarebill, another was on a 3/4 oz Strike King Structure jighead with a Structure Bug soft plastic and the biggest was on a Got Em' Coach Bluegill swimbait and that one went 6 lbs 15 oz .
I also caught a few between 5 - 6 lbs using jigs , swimbaits and deep diving cranks .
LM: 5 lbs caught on a Rapala DT 14
SM: 5 Lbs Caught on a Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper Jr. thrown on a drop shot
Caught TWO the same size during the same tournament on the Chesapeake Bay: 5.75lbs, both on D&L Tackle Advantage Pro jigs, moon cricket (color), with a Quickbaits Quickbeetle trailer (green pumpkin).
The bass caught in my previous pic was not on a bed . Had no clue where she was lurking at. The same pond I caught some giants in March of 2014 but they were all post spawn.
Caught on a megabass popmax, baby bass color. Did not have a scale or tape, so I have no clue of weight or length. She came completely out the water when she hit the popmax! And it was my first time fishing it! From the butt of the rod to the bottom of the reel seat is 11 inches, just for reference.
I dunno, I don't keep track to be honest.
It was on a hook though, that much I can tell you with 100% confidence.
On 1/18/2016 at 10:24 PM, tater555 said:Caught on a megabass popmax, baby bass color. Did not have a scale or tape, so I have no clue of weight or length. She came completely out the water when she hit the popmax! And it was my first time fishing it! From the butt of the rod to the bottom of the reel seat is 11 inches, just for reference.
That face says it all hahaha
Z-Man Original Chatterbait black and blue with a black and blue bio spawn plasma tail as a trailer.
-Payton
1/2 once Nichols spinnerbait, white and chartreuse, double silver willow blades. Slow rolled in front of a dam on a large pond. Still my PB at just over 7 lbs. I caught many 4+ pound largemouth this year which I feel is a strong showing for southern Michigan. Almost all the others came on hollow body frogs or jigs, one 5 lb 11 oz fish came on a One Knocker Spook (second pic). I am very pleased with the season I had and I'm eagerly awaiting gettin' at 'em this coming season.
I caught a good number of 2+ lb bass this year (yeah, bad year for big ones) but the most memorable 2 or 3 of those were caught on a Storm Chug Bug - Bleeding Shad color, while fishing a bridge on Table Rock Lake. They'd hardly let my popper hit the water before they were jumping out at it. We had to have caught 15 or 20 bass in half an hour. Great time.
Two 8.5lbers. One on a SK 10XD crankbait & one on a LC SKT Mag 105 crankbait.
9.2 on a strike king 10xd
Siebert Punch Skirt in brown with a 1 oz weight, and ZMAN Turbo Craw Trailer as I was about to lift it out of the water to make another pitch....Maybe 8.5 lbs. Probably 7.5 lbs in reality...Can't tell anymore, I just know they are not 10.
Largest largemouth 4" Senko watermelon with black/red flakes
Largest smallmouth Shaky head 4" ElaZtech Strike King or Zman, on a Vike 3/16th ounce tungsten shakey jig head
Here's another of my favorite baits. You don't read much about it, but it will catch the heck out of largemouth and smallmouth bass.
It's a Lunker City, 2 3/4" Grubster Clear water color. I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round jig head with a 2/0 or 3/0 hook.
The downside is that the tail is feeble, but that's part of what gives it its action.
The upside is they are comparatively cheap.
1/2 oz Siebert Outdoors Dredge Football Jig in Black and Blue with a Black and Blue Rage Bug trailer
Berkley Powerbait Chigger Craw, black/blue fleck. 6.3#. I caught several over 5 on this bait. I caught a couple over 5 on Rat L Trap and Chug 'N Spook, Jr.
I caught my biggest bass of the year on a BPS Stik-O. It was 4 pounds.
A nose hooked Super Fluke Jr. was eaten by a 6 lb. 14 oz. largemouth:
I caught a 7 10oz on a 8XD, which is hilarious because I bought 5 8XDs and 2 10xds to fish Kentucky lake in the middle of summer yet caught the 7.10 on a 18ft deep roadbed in the middle of Iowa and a never sniffed a bass on it on Kentucky.
On 1/19/2016 at 5:32 AM, Fishing Rhino said:Largest largemouth 4" Senko watermelon with black/red flakes
Largest smallmouth Shaky head 4" ElaZtech Strike King or Zman, on a Vike 3/16th ounce tungsten shakey jig head
Here's another of my favorite baits. You don't read much about it, but it will catch the heck out of largemouth and smallmouth bass.
It's a Lunker City, 2 3/4" Grubster Clear water color. I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round jig head with a 2/0 or 3/0 hook.
The downside is that the tail is feeble, but that's part of what gives it its action.
The upside is they are comparatively cheap.
I like the look of the bait.
Strike King KVD 8.0 Magnum Squarebill in Sexy Shad
Largest bass of the year I caught last year was just over 6 pounds on a war eagle spinner-bait half oz. Caught him on an edge in about 10ft of water, Second largest was just under 6 and caught him on a slider head with a 3 inch vibragrub on it. I caught him right off a beach in some isolated lily pads.
1/2 oz. black/grey football jig with PB&J twin tail grub trailer. Ripped it out of a deep weedline and the big girl was sitting right outside of it waiting.
I caught this bass on a zoom baby brush hog.
On 1/20/2016 at 5:37 AM, Lucas Julian said:I caught this bass on a zoom baby brush hog.
Thats a sow .
My largest fish this past summer was on a X-rap Pop. I'm normally a big Chug Bug zealot, but I decided to toss the X-Rap pop a bunch more this summer and it did just as well as the ole chug bug.
7-13 Largemouth in Maine on a 1/2 ounce chompers brush jig with a rage craw trailer
7lb 6oz caught on a t/rigged
Netbait B Bug in watermelon crawfish/standard size.
1/4oz eagle claw tube jig and no name black tube. Bit a few feet from the bank.
Evergreen jt-95
A custom painted DT10 - Largemouth 5.1 pounds
Zoom 6" brush hog in watermelon candy. 7 lb. 2 oz., May 23, Truman Lake.
#7 shad rap... No I did not catch it when you're supposed to use them in March when the water was 45 degrees or in December when everything was slowing down, I caught the darn thing in the middle of the day in July. (not complaining)
I'm personally happy to report that it was a Prism Gill colored Duo Realis Spinbait 80
everythingthatswims
a #7 shad rap is one of my all time favorites. i like that shad pattern as well as the gold. i usually carry two of each.
Swim jig from khangbro lures. Almost beat my pb
Spro Poppin Frog 7lbs 6oz
Berkley havoc bottom hopper, 6" in redbug. 5-1. My go-to worm for a couple years now.
Runner up was on the River2Sea spittin frog, in the bream color (4-4). One of my new favorites and I plan to use it more next summer!
Black Zoom Trick Worm / Picasso 3/8oz Green Pumpkin Tiger Shak-E-Football -> 24" LMB, weight unclear.
[ Largemouth ]
April 13, 2015 - 6lb 10oz, 23''
Bladed California Swim Jig [3/8oz Strike King Pure Poison (Black & Blue) + 4.8'' Keitech Swing Impact Fat (Rainbow Shad)]
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[ Smallmouth ]
September 18, 2015 - 5lb 02oz, 21 & 1/2''
1/8oz Jig Head + 3.5'' GitZit Tube (Brown Crawdad)
WolfyBrandon
6lb lm, I was playing with a fluke, missed a strike, used a tube for a quick follow up. Nailed it.
4.7 lb Largemouth caught on green pumpkin Yum Wooly bug
KVD Sexy Shad Tandem Spinnerbait (6.5 lbs)
5.25 lb (my pb) on a Strike King "Banshee" (DSG brand) 1/2 oz buzzbait in bluegill, warm late October evening - just at the transition from dusk to dark.
The biggest bass on our small local ponds were all caught on Banshee buzzbaits in chartreuse and bluegill. The second best fish smashed a Chartreuse Banshee burned across flat water under bluebird skies at 3 pm on a hot September afternoon.