What Do You Count as Your PB? 2025
Josh Smith reply :
Many years ago and many miles south I caught a largish 9lb, 13oz largemouth.
There is probably no way I'd ever beat that in Northern Indiana, so I count the largest I've caught here from public waters.
Do you do anything similar?
Josh
IndianaFinesse reply :
Since Indiana's fishing is so poor, I keep track of my pb in indiana, my pb for each lake I fish regularly, and of course my over all pb. It makes it more fun when I have a half dozen different personal bests to break.?
HookdUP reply :
When people say pb I separate them from state to state and then live bait to lure
my pb for va is 7+ (6th sense 75x flat)
but it my pb for Florida is 9+ but with live bait .
senile1 reply :
For me personal best is just that, no matter where it occurs. I do have an idea of the largest fish that I have caught at different bodies of water as I use that, and the general numbers of big fish at those lakes, to determine where I want to fish.
tander reply :
Doesn't matter where you caught it or what you caught it on, the biggest you ever caught is your PB.
the reel ess reply :
I count a bass that I caught in my buddy's pond as my PB. We weighed it on the lame-o black, unscientific spring scale. It said 6.5 lbs. Could have been 6 or 7. I have caught maybe 6 or 7 fish very near that mark, but none above it. I would trade all those for one 10 lb. bass.
But I caught a 10 lb catfish that I guess would be my PB fish. I really don't like catfish so it was just a bigger nothing on the end of my line.
J Francho reply :
I only count the fish from my home state. I have a couple 8+ pounders from Florida, VA, and SC, but 7-2 is my PB LMB from NY waters. 5-12 is my PB SMB from NY waters.
HookdUP reply :
I'm from Florida and live in va lol ... So I kinda feel like I have certain advantages.
Fish the Mitt reply :
My personal best is equivalent to my biggest catch overall! 
I couldn't imagine breaking it down by water, states, lures, etc.. I'd need an Excel Spreadsheet!
00 mod reply :
Full Definition of best
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superlative of good
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1 : excelling all others <the best student>
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2 : most productive of good : offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction <what is the best thing to do>
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3 : most, largest <it rained for the best part of their vacation>
There is only 1 best!
Jeff
wnspain reply :
On 3/29/2016 at 12:17 AM, tander said:Doesn't matter where you caught it or what you caught it on, the biggest you ever caught is your PB.
Well, one may have to modify that statement bit. In Alaska, went out on a halibut charter (Ninilchek, AK) and reeled in a 317 lb. barndoor. My best LMB though remains at just under 6 lbs.
ww2farmer reply :
On 3/29/2016 at 1:30 AM, J Francho said:I only count the fish from my home state. I have a couple 8+ pounders from Florida, VA, and SC, but 7-2 is my PB LMB from NY waters. 5-12 is my PB SMB from NY waters.
I so the same thing and I break it down lake to lake as well.........
LMB:
Silver: 6-12.........twice
Conesus: 7-1
Florida: 8-3
SMB:
Silver: 6-0
Conesus: 4-13
Erie: 5-9
I don't think as highly of the 5-9 smallie from Erie, or the 8-3 LMB from Lake Toho in Fla. as I do the biggest fish I have caught in my home waters........maybe because they are nothing more than "nice fish" on those bodies of water.
I am awful proud of one of my 6-12 fish from Silver, it was caught during a tournament, took lunker for the night, and helped WNYbassman and I to win. Plus............I have fished and ran a lot of tournaments on that lake the last 10 years or so, and no one before or since has brought one to the scales that big........I'll cry the day it eventually happens.........unless it's me. LOL
Scarborough817 reply :
i've never fished out of ontario so it's basically the biggest which was above 6
Bankbeater reply :
I break it down by species. A bass is not a catfish.
J Francho reply :
On 3/29/2016 at 2:10 AM, ww2farmer said:I don't think as highly of the 5-9 smallie from Erie, or the 8-3 LMB from Lake Toho in Fla. as I do the biggest fish I have caught in my home waters........maybe because they are nothing more than "nice fish" on those bodies of water.
This point is huge. My 7-2 came from "The City Dump," lol. My 5-12 smallie came about 30 seconds before one of Noel's average sixers.
Raul reply :
The biggest I´ve caught per species.
LMB = 13.86 lbs
Brayberry reply :
On 3/29/2016 at 3:21 AM, Raul said:The biggest I´ve caught per species.
LMB = 13.86 lbs
Same here, my PB is from Virginia at 9 lbs even
Catt reply :
On 3/28/2016 at 11:33 PM, senile1 said:For me personal best is just that, no matter where it occurs. I do have an idea of the largest fish that I have caught at different bodies of water as I use that, and the general numbers of big fish at those lakes, to determine where I want to fish.
Yelp! 
BassWhole! reply :
I tell every bass I catch that it's my PB. Wouldn't want to damage their self esteem. I'm thinking of getting participation trophies for them all.
I only keep loose mental tabs on the LMB I catch, so to answer your question, no.
Ski reply :
On 3/29/2016 at 1:47 AM, 00 mod said:Full Definition of best
superlative of good
1 : excelling all others <the best student>
2 : most productive of good : offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction <what is the best thing to do>
3 : most, largest <it rained for the best part of their vacation>
There is only 1 best!
Jeff
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BassThumb reply :
I scaled a 6-12 LMB a few years back, and a few days later caught one that was significantly bigger than it, likely in the 7-and-quarter range. Didn't scale that one because I was fishing within sight of numerous other boaters and some residents who had their eyes glued to me as I dock-fished around their brand new pontoons. I didn't want to make a scene, so I tossed it back knowing it was my new PB.
Those are my two PB LMB, and they were caught on jigs; biggest was 3/8oz, black/blue, pitched to the scour-hole behind a pontoon motor on a lift, and the second biggest was from a 1/2oz football, PB/J/GP, dragged around sunken laydowns.
I also have 6 or 7 SMB in the 6-lb-plus range from years of wading in the Mississippi River near home in my teens and early-twenties before I bought a boat and primarily switched to hunting LMB. The biggest SMB was scaled at 6-9 and was caught on a 1/8oz buzzbait.
Jaderose reply :
9.3 LMB. Doesn't matter where I caught it.
Wbeadlescomb reply :
7lb largemouth on the river 10+ in a private lake
Pb spot was 6+ never put it on a set of scales. I've caught a bunch of spots in the 5lb range and this one dwarfed them.
Only caught a few smallmouth but I caught one that was 4-3 at Pickwick a few years ago
everythingthatswims reply :
PB Largemouth 25" ??lbs
PB Smallmouth 23" 4.2lbs
mwh33 reply :
I go by species for my PB. Doesn't matter where or when I catch them.
herbu reply :
"Best" = "Best". You can say "best in this water", or "best in this state", or etc... but there is only one "Best, period". ("Best bass" is allowed.)
Dwight Hottle reply :
I count the biggest fish of any species as my PB for that species. Doesn't matter to me where it was caught. Logically bigger fish waters are going to produce bigger fish. I do appreciate that a 9lb bass from New England is more impressive than a 9lb bass from Texas or Florida.
scaleface reply :
I don even know what my personal best is . I have weighed very few bass . I have probably two hundred maybe three hundred six lb plus bass . I had my first confirmed seven lb fish mounted over thirty years ago . I have my personal best listed between 8 and 9 because I just think that a few of those fish has hit 8 lbs .
WRB reply :
Heaviest fish weighed by species;
Fresh water,
Northern LMB 12 lbs 4 oz.
Floridia strain LMB 19.3 lbs.
Smallmouth bass 6 lbs.
Rainbowctrout 10 lbs 2 oz.
Musky 37 lbs.
Tom
Preytorien reply :
On 3/28/2016 at 11:10 PM, Josh Smith said:Many years ago and many miles south I caught a largish 9lb, 13oz largemouth.
There is probably no way I'd ever beat that in Northern Indiana, so I count the largest I've caught here from public waters.
Do you do anything similar?
Josh
Indiana in general is tough to get big numbers on anyways. I just caught my personal best last night actually. 6lbs 3oz. and that was enormous to me. I told my wife that in Indiana it'll be hard to beat and likely take a long time. I think I read somewhere that bass in Indiana average about 1/2lb a year growth, so that fish was about 12yrs old.
Ski reply :
On 3/30/2016 at 10:41 PM, WRB said:Heaviest fish weighed by species;
Fresh water,
Northern LMB 12 lbs 4 oz.
Floridia strain LMB 19.3 lbs.
Smallmouth bass 6 lbs.
Rainbowctrout 10 lbs 2 oz.
Musky 37 lbs.
Tom
WOW
Derekbass02 reply :
The only thing I do is separate largemouth from smallmouth.
IndianaFinesse reply :
On 3/30/2016 at 10:41 PM, WRB said:Heaviest fish weighed by species;
Fresh water,
Northern LMB 12 lbs 4 oz.
Floridia strain LMB 19.3 lbs.
Smallmouth bass 6 lbs.
Rainbowctrout 10 lbs 2 oz.
Musky 37 lbs.
Tom
I wish my over all pb list looked like that!
My biggest northern largemouth is 10.3 pounds
Never caught a Florida strain lergemouth
Smallmouth, a measly four pounds
Rainbow, 6.8
Muskie, never caught one
Channel catfish, 15.3 pounds
Crappie, only 15 inches
Bluegill, 12.5 inches
Wiper, fourteen pounds
Striper, never hooked one that didn't break my line
Flathead, 36 pounds
Never caught a blue catfish.
Wbeadlescomb reply :
On 3/30/2016 at 10:41 PM, WRB said:Heaviest fish weighed by species;
Fresh water,
Northern LMB 12 lbs 4 oz.
Floridia strain LMB 19.3 lbs.
Smallmouth bass 6 lbs.
Rainbowctrout 10 lbs 2 oz.
Musky 37 lbs.
Tom
Pictures? You can't just leave us hanging
bigbill reply :
PB 10lb LMB. 4:30/5am.
numerous pickerel between 29" / 32". During the morning 9am.
A crappie the size of a five gallon bucket lid. Full moon evening.
00 mod reply :
On 3/31/2016 at 1:11 AM, Wbeadlescomb said:Pictures? You can't just leave us hanging
I am not Tom(WRB), but I have 1 of his pics hosted for him.....
Jeff
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