I'm interested in what most people's personal best was caught on, as I suspect it's the jig or something very similar. My personal best (7.8oz) was caught punching mats with a punch rig in the Sacramento Delta last summer.
November 16th, 2009. 5:00am. Rage Tail Shad in green pumpkin/chartreuse. 7lbs 10oz.
10" black worm w/ 1/2 oz. weight.
Walk The Dog
1992 - 10lbs. 3 oz. - 8" Mann's Jelly Worm, Texas rigged.
Storm wiggle wart. Color SP/SV 53. Crawfish, olive back, chart sides, orange belly.
Norman Fat Boy (redear pattern)
8-)
Largmouth PB: 6-2, zoom trick worm
Smallmouth PB: 5-9, 3" Gulp fry.
5" yamamoto double tail hula grub, 1/4oz arkie jighead
1/2 oz. Booyah Boo Jig, Black & Blue, 4" Chigger Craw, Black/ Blue Flake.
8.2
6.2oz smallmouth 3/8oz chartruese chatterbait
7.7oz largemouth bomber square bill in bluegill
13.86 lbs LMB ---> Rapala Shad Rap SR7SD
10# 6 oz with Zoom finesse worm rigged weedless wacky. So was all the other 10# and 9# class bass.
Id estimate my PB to be 5.5-6# caught on an *** Watermelon Purple Swirl 5" Trick Stick Wacky Rigged
6lb 4oz, Rapala Original Floater, F11 bleeding pearl.
I have caught 3 fish all exactly 8lbs 3oz and all caught flipping a Zoom baby brush hog (watermelon candy). Just cant get over the 8.3 barrier.
10lb 1oz on a clear/pepper flake Zoom Trick Worm. I dont really think the bait made the difference, but it was persistance that caught that fish. I threw a dozen lures at her for 2 hours before she finally bit!!
Caught the bass in my avatar on a t-rigged tequila sunrise colored Cabela's AquaGlow beaver tail grub. Second biggest catch (same lake, in fact very close to the same location as the one in my avatar, and exactly one year to the day before I caught that one) was on a t-rigged purple original Zipper worm. Didn't get an opportunity to weigh either of them, but judging from a similar-sized fish that my brother caught, I'd estimate the one in my avatar at about 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 pounds. Second biggest just a shade under 5.
October 18, 2009 7lb 12oz LMB caught on a 3/8oz firetiger Roostertail !
a Six pounder caught on a lipless crankbait. Cotten Cordell to be exact.
I want pics Raul!
Best LM - 8.0 caught on a spinnerbait.
Best SM - 6.0 caught on a Silver Buddy.
7lb2oz on a zoom u-tail watermelon seed weightless
LM: Zoom Horny Toad
Peacock: Jig with a Rage Chunk trailer
8 lbs 8oz on a Pop R
9 pound 3 oz on Strike King 6xd
Largemouth = 3/8 red spinnerbait
Smallmouth = black chigger craw texas rigged.
Largest LMB ZOOM Horny Toad
Second Largest LMB Berkley 10" Worm
L.M.- chicken liver, I was catfishing at dusk, from a boat ramp dock.
Night fishing with a full moon. Custom painted ThinFin. I call it the CrackWhore. It has a terrible paint job, but the fish eat it up.
My biggest so far was a 6 pounder caught on a "liver red" power worm. theyre AMAZING at my local lake
Spinnerbait... white/chart with willow leaf blades.
10.3 caught in march of 1994 on lake Tyler, TX. Caught her on a 4 inch watermelon red Zoom Centipede on a 1/2 oz texas rig in the hydrilla.
Black Buzz Bait at night. Central Fl. orange grove lake.
1/4 oz. Booyah Boo Jig :-* just 64oz. shy of 10#
this bad boy
The fish in my avatar pic. This past spring on green pumpkin rage craw t-rigged with a 1/8 tru tungston bullet weight. She came out about a foot of water. Other bigge fish I have caught on weightless fluke, jig, and spinnerbait.
LM: Backwards Fat Ika (green pumpkin/black flake) 5/0 Gamy ewg (7lbs).
SM: Tiny Torpedo (baby bass) (5.25lbs)
3/8 oz. S.O.B. Mini Me Pj Special # 4 Willow # 2 Colorado- spring 2009 threw it against a laydown in shallow water
Wacky rigged zoom finesse worm. Fish in my avatar.
Deep crankbait
I have one just under seven that I caught on a 6" black zoom lizard with green flake. My other two fish over six came on a buzzbait and jig and pig.
1997 end of april, 7.12 on a 7 inch original rapala. Shame on me for skipping school!
Jim
4lbs 6oz LMB caught on a watermelon magic baby brush hog on a 1/8oz black spot remover
Watermelon Black Flake Fat Ika.
not sure of the weight , but my biggest were caught on a weightless 8" taper tail worm ....... and a weightless zoom fluke jr.
Right now, my personal best is a Lake Erie smallmouth. It was just a tad under five pounds. It ate a smoke Zoom Fat Albert grub.
Toledo Bend Reservoir: 12 lbs 8 oz, Rat-L-Trap 1/2 oz Red Chrome
13lbs 3oz - California Delta - Hand tied jig
That's a solid punch fish for sure, I pulled a 9-4 out of the Delta last year punching, what a thrill!
8 1/2 pound LM on a Hellbender
6 1/2 pound SM buzzbait
Both caught in Ohio which might be the worst big bass state in the country.
My avatar pic 6+lbs from Kentucky Lake on a crappie minnow.
QuoteToledo Bend Reservoir: 12 lbs 8 oz, Rat-L-Trap 1/2 oz Red Chrome
Winter?
1st: Mann's "classic" chartreuse spinnerbait with one gold Colorado blade, 12#9oz, 24 years ago(with a Fenwick 5'6" pistol grip fiberglass and AG 5000, man have times changed)
2nd: Zoom Ol Monster Tequila Sunrise, 9#7oz, July 4th, 2010
Quote8 1/2 pound LM on a Hellbender6 1/2 pound SM buzzbait
Both caught in Ohio which might be the worst big bass state in the country.
Very solid fish, especially for Ohio. We Ohioans are not living in the worst big bass state though.... There is Alaska....... :
Very good analogy, Ohio bass fishing is pretty pitiful.
Largemouth- 4 pounds berkley flappin' hawg
Smallmouth- 5 + but I would say over or around 6
White Sizmic toad
Largemouth - 6 lbs on a Matzuo hunting dawg
Smallmouth - 3ls on a red eye shad in gizzard shad
8 lb LM, year before last, on a chug bug. Baby bass color. It was probably in Sept.
8 lb LM, Last Fall, on a drop shot, using a watermelon candy baby brush hog.
Berkly 7in Power Worm (motor oil) with a 1/16oz weight
Largemouth- lc pointer 128 ghost minnow
Smallmouth-rapala tail dancer deep diver perch
LM - 1/2 oz jig in brown and green and Netbait paca craw in Alabama Craw
SM - 5" Senko in Green Pumpkin with black (297)
10.2 lb, Candy Bug Big Brush Hog, 3-12-05 Chattahoochee River. Love dem Brush Hogs!!
Largemouth: 7.5lb, Stanley Ribbit Frog, Baby Bass
Smallmouth: 4-Way tie of 4lbs
Crappie Minnow
Heddon Baby Torpedo, Crawdad
1/4oz. Worden's Roostertail, White
3/8oz. A.T. Football Jig, Black and Blue, with a Yum! Chunl trailer, amtching the jig.
Funny, there is not a lot of jig fish on here that are PBs........ :-?
9lbs on a Stanley spinner bait one of only a handful of bass I have caught on a spinner
6" watermelon U tail worm - 10 lbs+ in a Florida golf course irrigation lake.
5 lbs 12 oz rapala x-walk 13 gold/black 5:30 am
Rage Toad, 6lbs 03oz
4" watermelon Cabin Creek Critter Gitter tube
21" LM: B-2 Double Buzzer in Chartreuse
December 5, 2008, 50* surface water temp
1/2 oz white/chartreuse spinnerbait, double willow blades on a rocky main lake point, about 3 ft deep :-?
5" senko weightless=10lb and 13 ounces.
1/2 oz football head jig black and blue with junebug rage craw trailer
LB 6.7 lb: Unweighted Zoom trick worm (watermelon red)
QuoteQuoteToledo Bend Reservoir: 12 lbs 8 oz, Rat-L-Trap 1/2 oz Red ChromeWinter?
Largemouth (tie)
2/6/2003 - 10.8 - Jig
9/06/2009 - 10.8 - Johnson Silver Minnow