Please list the size of your personal best catch, and the lure on which you caught it.
Mine was 8.9 on a Heddon Baby Torpedo (Silver)
**Updated**
9.4 as of March 28, 2007
3lbs 15oz
Norman Deep Baby N in chartreuse with blue back
mine is 8lbs 7oz caught on a dead shiner of all things.
GBF
Mine is 8lb 9oz also. Lake Fork 2nd Annual Lake Fork Road Trip. See picture in My trip or Outing section of Forum.
Kelley
7 pounds 3oz. Cavitron Buzzbait (Chartreuse), Stonewall Jackson Lake.
Don't know how much it weighed. Was right at 20".
Caught it on a weightless T-rigged green pumpkin Kinami Flash.
5lb, 9 oz on a firetiger Strike King bleeding series spinnerbait.
10 lbs 8 oz (in my avatar)
Strike King Series 4S crankbait bought from the Cabela's Bargain Bin right before I left for my trip. I was just looking for cheap square lipped crank because I figured I loose a few at Fork.
2 year anniversary is tomorrow. I will have a few minutes of silence tomorrow at 11:45 am. Feel free to join me. ;D
12.7 14" worm.
6+lbs. (no weight/measurements) baby bass colored tiki stick
Mine is 7.2lbs. caught on a wave worms tiki snake. (northern strain)
6lb-15oz smallmouth on a Tennessee Shad Rapala Husky Jerk.
Falcon
14 lbs 4 oz, when I was 15, I dont have pics of that one but it was caught on a chart spinner bait. and the one in my avatar, 12 lbs 4 oz caught on a junebug zoom fluke.
7 lb 8 oz caught on a mini buzzbait. I hope I break my own record today...
10.2- T-rigged black trick worm.
9.5lb on chartruese popper on 5wt flyrod.
6lb spotted bass- C-rig junebug senko
7lbs. 3oz. caught on a green pumpkinseed trickworm with spot remover jighead.
Mine was caught at 1330 on a hot day in August of 2005 in the Dodge County Public Fishing Area(not a farm pond where I catch most of my Bass) using a Kistler 7', 6", Heavy Helium rod, Shimano Antares AR reel, 20# test Seaguar Carbon Pro fluro line, and a Matt's Baby Bass was the bait.
9 lbs even
26 inches
That's part of a DNR tag sticking out of her belly.
Dan
5.25lbs and 21.25 inches. Cought on a black 1/2oz Booyah Buzzbait w/ clacker in mid summer.
The one in my advater was cought a few weeks ago on a black/green jig, and was the same size or bigger. I didn't have a scale, So I am not sertain what my PB is. becuase I also cought another 4.5-5lberish last fall. (on a white double colorado Lucky Strike)
4.5 lbs on a black spinner bait
5-9lb on black/blue Strike King jig; July, mid-day, pitching in openings in heavy vegetation.
5-4lb on chartreuse/white spinnerbait, august, late afternoon, along outside edge of veggies.
Both went back to make more "babies" after a quick weighting.
I'll have to buy a digital camera and take pictures !!! :
6 1/2 lb. smallmouth on a Choppers grub and jig brown purple
6 lb 8oz. largemouth on a black Zoom lizard
8lbs 4oz on a watermelon jig with a greenish yum whollybug trailer
flippin in some weeds
5+ pounds on a weightless worm rival (pic in my avatar) I caught two this size in 2 weeks, never had a camera or scale with me.
7lbs 8oz.
white spinnerbait
8 lbs, 8 oz last spring on my Florida trip. Dbl Tailed Hula Grub on 1/8 ballhead jig.
6 lbs, 10 oz the next day on a Senko.
Going back to the same place for 5 weeks, leaving early April. Now I gotta go 8 lbs 9 oz this year!
8-2 on a chompers centepede(frinch fry) ;D
8.02 lbs 26 in long caught her at Big Hill Lake Cherryvale, KS on a Bone Wiggle Wart.
10 lbs. 6 oz. on a wacky rigged Zoom finesse worm in Watermelon Red
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Largemouth, 3lb 15oz, black t-rigged Zoom Trickworm
Whoa man! Thats a beast.
6.4 lbs on a black and blue jig with a worm trailer mid summer.
QuoteWhoa man! Thats a beast.
Yes man, that is one beautiful fish!
<--------- 13lbs 1oz
6.5 lbs on live shiner (the one in my avatar)
11.0 lbs 07/2005 Lake El salto on a Black and Blue 10 inch Power Worm. Caught a 10 on the same trip.
8lb 15 oz, 1/8 oz jghead and June Bug Zoom finesse worm.
4.14 not big but i caught it on a texas rigged watermellon seed power hawg.
2 - 8.5lbers
One on a 1/4oz white single-bladed Fleck spinnerbait
The other on a 1/4oz chartreuse single-willow Fleck spinnerbait.
Shallow water! 8-)
6.9 lbs on a digital scale with a black t-rigged Culprit original worm.
11+ lb Lake Lanier Largemouth on a Big Daddy Fliptail worm split shot rig with weedless hook. We hadn't learned to T-rig in the late sixties when I caught this one. Mitchell 300 spinning reel on a fiberglass 7' rod.
4.75 pounds on a deep diving humpback rebel. It was down at Lake Of the Ozarks. It was overcast and I was fishing around a gravel road bed.
5lb 11oz
Yo-Zuri Hardcore Drum lipless crankbait (light green shad color, don't remember the official name). August 2006.
9.6 on a swamp donkey
i also got an 11.7 at stick marsh. it wont allow me to put that pic up, i guess because it was a scanned pic.
13.86 Rapala Shad Rap SR7 SD
My personal best was a 10lb. 1oz. caught on a white frog.
My PR is a 12.1 lb Florida bass caught using a chrome w/black back Rattlinrogue floater in 3 ft of water.
9.2 Fort Loudon Lake, July 16th 06', 10:30 AM Flipping a Black Sapphire Baby Brush Hog
19.5 inches on a Strike King chartreuse spinner bait. I've only been back at this a year, I hope to do better this year.
6 lbs 6 oz. caught on a baby bass super spook jr.
7-10 on a Bill Dance model spinner bait white with a blue head and a Colorado blade. Had a palm sized sunfish in it's mouth and craw fish tentacles sticking out of it's throat.
Quote8.02 lbs 26 in long caught her at Big Hill Lake Cherryvale, KS on a Bone Wiggle Wart.
Hey ranger364, when and where did you catch that fish? I have been fishing at BigHill almost everyday this week after work(just from the bank tho :'()
8lb 12 oz on an electric blue tube lure. Knew that it was my PB right after I set the hook! My Dad forgot the camera, even though I had handed it to him as we left the house. Oh well, just more incentive to catch something bigger and get a photo this time!!!!
-J
10lb 4oz for me and this was in 85 when i had no worrys cept "what pond do i go to today " out of 16 ponds withing 3 miles of each other my personal best as a adult is 8 and 1/2 wich was 6 yrs ago .My 10 pounder came on a 9 inch manns jelly worm in purple ....Hopefully this yr i will beat my maryland record of 11.2 i caught this bass using a shimano bantam and a fenwick rod 14 stren i wish i still had that setup i bought it at true value reel was 30 i think rod was 25 it was MY best and aside from a 5500 c3 i had was my only reel.I did own a couple zebco 202,s and a DaM spinning reel WOW now that i think about it seems the simpler the tackler the more fishing i got done!!
9-pound 1-ounce during the 2nd Annual BassResource.com Lake Fork Trip!
What's really cool is having somebody (Russ!) in another boat videotape the whole thing!
It's in this clip: http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1175252828
NICE!! Congrats Glenn!
New PB. 7.9lbs. I'm going for 8 now!
Up here in PA, my personal best was 24.5 inches and 8.2 pounds... Caught her on a Spinnerbait, She actually hit the banjo minnow first then i went right back with the spinnerbait and she slammed it. I will never forget that day. Caught it May 5th, 7 years ago. I will get the picture on here as soon as i figure out how....