What did you catch your personal best on? 2025

hawgchaser reply :

Sorry if this has been covered(everything has been covered on here at some point) but what and when did you catch your best fish? I thought it would be interesting to see.

Mine was late February on a watermelon brush hawg just before dark.

mattm reply :

April, 2nd last year, Bass Magic paddle tail tube. 9lbs 2oz. Sorry Forubizz.

Gatorbassman reply :

Sept 9th 2006 - 9.98lb Largemouth on a 1/16oz Mojo Rigged Zoom trick worm. #1 offset worm hook and 8lb Fluorocarbon Line. It was in a tournament with Senko77 as my partner.

IDbasser reply :

A rainbow trout colored rattle trap in Sept of 2006. Way past time to beat it. I have some plans for doing so this year. 5lb 1oz smallie. Can't seem to get anything biger than 4 lbers since then.

T-Bone reply :

Early May '08. 9" Mann's Jelly Worm, grape, t-rig with 1/2oz bullet weight on a 4/0 Gammy EWG. 9lbs 6oz

Captain Obvious reply :

Hand painted lipless crank, green with black strips, 2 bass on two casts, one 6.5lb, the other 6.3lb, lost the bait next week end on brush, my heart was broken :'(

fathom reply :

have caught 4 fish each of the last 4 years, each of which was 10# and change...each between the last week in feb. and the first week in march.

2 on a 1/8 oz. bitsy bug, black/blue with matching zoom super chunk jr.

1 on a 5" senko, black/blue.

1 on a zoom finesse on an 1/4 oz. gammie ballhead...black/blue.

anybody see a pattern?

Triton21 reply :

Wacky Trick Stick, 2nd Roadtrip Lake Fork, 8lb 9oz.

retiredbosn reply :

I was forunate enough to break both of my PB's last summer. I don't remember the dates.

4lb smallie, black/blue chatterbait, with a zoom ultravibe trailer

7+lb largemouth chartruse and white double buzzbait.

The smallie was caught about an hour after dark and the lm was about an hour before dark.

Mike 12345 reply :

This past December on a chartreuse spinnerbait.

dmac14 reply :

June, with a white coffee tube texas rigged with 1/8th ounce bullet weight

tritz18 reply :

5 inch senko wacky rigged

hjerk24 reply :

1/16th oz. spider hook and a zoom baby brush hog (green pumpkin) and Jack's Juice Crawfish. 10 lb. Berkley Vanish Fleurocarbon. Up at lake Champlain.

She went 5 lb. 3 oz.

Hannons Hound reply :

MS Slammer

2:00 AM

9lbs 8oz

KevO reply :

Oct 2008, bluegill colored rapala dt4. 8# even.

Jake. reply :

1/4 oz. Cavitron Buzzbait, and then the same fish again later in the year on a 5" Zoom Lizard (but she didn't weigh as much that time).

drmnbig reply :

Mines been quite a while since it happened. June 11, 2000 8lb 13oz Caught her on a chartreuse and white Terminator Spinnerbait. I'm gonna work hard on breaking that number this year!

Wayne P. reply :

A weedless wacky rigged finesse worm accounted for my top three bass: 10# 4 pounces, 10# 5 ounces, 10# 6 ounces.

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

Dec 2006 Rapala glass fat rap yellow/purple back. Open water 8 ft down in 13 feet. 12 lbs 8 oz No photo :'( :

<<------ approx 10.5, second pb, caught Dec. 2007 on dt flat07 yellow/purple back.

I guess I am a big fan of the Rapala purple back color.

BassCats reply :

10 lb 3 oz largemout bass out of Lake Tyler Tx

March 1994

speckled red shad 4 inch zoom centipede

Texas rigged with 1/2 oz weight.

toolpush reply :

5" Yamamota swim senko, watermelon red green, 9-27-07 on Lake Amistad. 8#.

jig reply :

just over 10 lbs on a 1/4 oz jig

alger319 reply :

3'' culprit craw junebug color. first cast of the day!!! pitched right on a bed i didn't see! the fish went 10lb 2oz...

KYntucky Warmouth reply :

Nov. 17, 2007 on a weightless t-rigged 5'' smoke shad Wave Tiki Stick

not as big as every one elses but my biggest to date

fishizzle reply :

5-13 on a black/blue 3/8 oz GYBC hula grub texas rigged next to rockpile at the end of the beach in Oct.

Pitchinkid reply :

Rebel PoP-R Frog Pat.

2:00 p.m.

7lb 8 0z

Plum Orchard Lake,WV

6lb Spiderwire mono

All Star rod

ABU Spinning reel

July 13, 2003

cart7t reply :

8lb 6oz on a SVSP 53 Storm Wiggle wart.

roadwarrior reply :

Smallmouth (avatar), January 2005

Largemouth,

November 2005

Norman Fat Boy, bluegill pattern

8-)

Volman482 reply :

LM---Johnson Silver Minnow 3/4 oz.(Santee Cooper/Marion)

SM---Black Maribou Stump Jumper 1/4 oz. (Norris Lake)

Both many moons ago.

silvercliff_46 reply :

My best was a 21", 5 lbs, Lg. Mth.. Not much by Southern standards, but not bad for Northern Wisconsin, caught Aug.,23,1981. Used a spinner-bait over submerged weeds. There was a deeper hole in the weeds, I let it helicopter down and came out crankin' as hard as I could, and the bass nailed it as hard as it could.

I got a 4 3/4 pound smallie on the river using a craw-fish jig and the same color twister tail. I was slipping the river casting up stream and bringing it back just a little bit faster then the current. Every-time I came to a spot with an undercut, where the long grass bent over to touch the water I got a fish. I took a five fish limit. The smallest was 2 1/2 lbs the biggest was the 4 3/4 lbs. The rest in-between. I won the local tournament One of the few that I ever won .

I'm supposin' that your talkin' bass, else I did get a 51 inch musky about 5 years ago on a bass size spinner-bait, in my canoe, using 12 lb test line and a 6'6" spinning rod. That was mid to late Oct. I was slow rollin' for a bass. She hit, I hung on, she pulled the canoe around. I never took it out of the water, but my partner measured it. We said good bye to the musky and hello to the gin mill.

A good time was had by all. ;D next day :-[ :-[

Boy oh boy those Snowshoes (shot of brandy topped with peppermint schnapps) and a beer can be hard on a guy. :-/

South FLA reply :

Bass Pro Stick-O 6"June Bug afternoon on a hydrilla ledge

ww2farmer reply :

Largemouth 6lb 2 oz. May 11th 2006, weightless Zoom Trickworm, bubble gum color. Twitched down the trunk of a laydown in 4' of water

Smallmouth (tie) 6lb even- #1 May 5th 2008 4" roboworm on a dropshot rig dragged past dock post on a spawning flat.

#2 Sept 28th 2008, 3" gulp crawler on drop shot rig drifted on the deep weedline in 14' of water.

shutupnfish reply :

July '08 about noon chrome Tiny Torpedo on a farm pond

swilly78 reply :

5# even on a booyah boogie bait, ozark smoke, late evening, Deep Quarry lake, il. followed on the next cast with a 4# 10 oz, same bait. Not huge by alot of standards, but what a great memory..... 8-) Oh yeah, early September.

J Francho reply :

LMB:

Personal best is a 7-2 on a 10" Power Worm with a 1/2 oz. tungsten weight.

Last year's best was 6-0 on a 3/4 oz. black and blue jig with a Zoom Super Chunk.

SMB:

Personal best was 4-8, IIRC, and was caught with a live softshell crayfish on a split shot rig.

Last year's best was unmeasured, and came on a Sammy 115 in Aurora Black. Probably about 4 lbs, give or take.

bilgerat reply :

6lb LMB on a 1/8oz ballhead jig with a no name generic 3" shad body.

The best part is that I got her on a bad cast. I was casting toward the shore from about 25' out and overshot badly, getting hung up in the grass on the bank. After 2 or 3 tugs to try and free it up, it plopped into the water about 3' from the bank and was immediately nailed. At first I thought "good job, you got out of the grass and snagged a log" but then she started to run and the fight was on....

Bad to da Bass reply :

Mine would probably have to be about 5. I caught it on a t rigged zoom trick worm pitchin to the docks.

eyedabassman reply :

Smallmouth 6 lbs. Chomper's Grub on a jig.

Largemouth 7lb's 2 oz. Netbait Baby Paca Craw.

budaman reply :

Smallmouth- rattle trap lipless crankbait

Largemouth- strike king rage craw

SJex reply :

August 2008 6.1lb largemouth on a watermelon/black flake Fat Ika.

Catt reply :

February 3rd 2007

Bill Lewis's Rat-L-Trap ½ oz Red Chrome

12 pounds 8 ounces

Simp reply :

Sept 1 or 2nd 2008

7lbs and like 231/2 inches long I think.

She was caught on a Spro Frog.

hawgchaser reply :

Great fish everyone! They are all caught on a huge variety of Baird as well.

detroit1 reply :

I didn't have a scale at the time, but a 20.5" lm on a super shad rap (perch) on my birthday (july 16)2001. 19.5" sm (char./whi. 4"flash) that weighed 4.8# in sept. '07.

fishfordollars reply :

Orange lake in Florida 1977.

12.40 lbs

1 lb. shiner

fished with a guide for three days, and caught it with about two hours to go on the last day.

CWB reply :

Black 1/2 oz. Roland Martin Double Buzzer at dusk.

etommy28 reply :

i caught 2 8-8 one on a bandit 100 perch color ans on pitching a junebug blue trekworm with 1/32 oz weight.

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

1/8oz finesse jig/craw trailer but my next one will be on a Working Girl Wake Bait

This yr I hope

nralover reply :

September, laminated shad tiki stik, 5 pound largemouth 20.5 inches

Ky_Lake_Dude reply :

July '05 on a 1/4oz blue Strike King Pro-Model Jig with a emerald blue Zoom Super Chunk Jr. 6lb 4oz

senile1 reply :

August, 2008: 7 lb 5 oz largemouth on a 3/8 oz Booyah white and chartreuse spinnerbait with willowleaf and colorado blades.

daviscw reply :

A white Chatterbait.

Handy reply :

For me it was a strike king 4s crank in white body black scale back. The LMB was 22 inches long and weighed 3 pounds 11 ounces about 2 years ago in the fall. Now to allot of guys thats a normal keeper but where I live that was a big bass.

Paul

tkite16 reply :

April of 1992 on a purple culprit worm. 7 lbs 6 oz

BassnMan Mike reply :

It was back in the early 80's on a 12 inch Manns Jelly worm that I had originally bought as a joke. I believe it was a 12 incher, I remember they used to sell them in 2 packs. She weighed 15.7.

Sadly this was back in the old days when we just didn't know any better and everyone kept their catch. Hell, catch and release was a term used by fishermen who were just too lazy to clean their catch. Now days, I wouldn't even dream of killing such a magnificent animal.

BTW, the one in my avatar is only a 13 pounder.

Donkey punch reply :

I caught a 11.8 pound bass on a Rapala #9 yellow shad rap.

skillet reply :

A T-rigged green pumpkin Brush Hog, 3/16 weight and 10lb Yo-Zuri Ultrasoft line. 7lb 15oz last Spring ...

skillet

daltonmcgill reply :

zoom trick worm watermelon seed 7 1/2 pounds

burleytog reply :

Zoom Mag II

BASS fisherman reply :

PB LM- Rebel pop-r

PB SM- C-rigged dark watermelon tube on Erie.

Jimzee reply :

Terminator spinnerbait.

EastTexasBassin reply :

A GYCB Flappin hog in color 301 (green pumpkin green and purple flake) t-rigged with a 3/0 Gammy EWG and a 1/4 oz tungsten weight. Weighed 10 pounds 2 ounces, caught on Feb 10th 2008.

Sam reply :

First two six-pounders on a black Cavitron buzzbait.

Second two six-pounders on a white grub.

Third two six-pounders on a drop shot using a finesse worm.

All were over six pounds each, but I don't really keep records on the fish I catch.

I just admire their beauty and let them go.

But...with that said, I am going back and try to catch them all again this year.

BassChump reply :

My personal best was also the first bass I ever caught. I caught it on a 4 inch watermelon Senko, bullet sinker pegged. I thought I caught a tree limb. It came up like an old boot but it's still the largest bass I've caught so far. That's the bass pictured in my avatar.

5 lbs, 3 oz.

Glenn reply :

Both were caught the same year (2007):

Largemouth: 9 lbs 1oz, Lake Fork road trip (March), 3/4oz white spinnerbait

Smallmouth: 5lbs. 12oz, John Day River (September), wacky rigged Senko

hawgchaser reply :

Now thats a good year! And Lake Fork is a good place to find a PB.

-nick- reply :

Oct. 30 2008 on a watermelon colored booyah jig with a rage tail chunk as a trailor.

hjerk24 reply :

Bass Chump:

5 lb. 3 oz. what a first bass. WOW. I kinda relate it to shooting a 20" 10 point Whitetail the first time out hunting. What a great way to start a fishing career....Very cool. Great looking fish.

tallydude reply :

October 06. 6.5 lbs. West Palm Beach. 1/2 oz Rattlin' Rapala.

NCbassproAK reply :

Best all time hawg catcher is the zoom double ringer.

Donnie869 reply :

11# 7 oz. fatty large mouth on a Zoom Horny toad (watermelon) August 2008 on West Lake Toho.

hawgchaser reply :

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11# 7 oz. fatty large mouth on a Zoom Horny toad (watermelon) August 2008 on West Lake Toho.

How fun was that!!!!! 11.7 on a topwater toad

fishinfiend reply :

Norman deep diver in slick.

Dwight Hottle reply :

largemouth-lc pointer 128 ghost minnow

smallmouth-rapala tail dancer flash perch ;D

SimonSays reply :

1/4 oz white spinnerbait

Limpinglogan reply :

Until now I have never owned a scale but my two biggest where about 5lber's. I fish Central and Northern Michigan so they are pretty big for up here.

#1. Middle of the day in the center of a small gravel pit by my house on a Berkly crank bait I don't think they even make them any more...I can't find them any where.

#2 1am in the morning in 8ft of water on a Booya pond magic spinner bait with a Gary Yamamoto TTHG as a trailer.

Mr. H reply :

August, Megabass Topwater PopX, 8. lbs 9 oz

Hammer 4 reply :

I think it was March, or sometime around there in 1986. Piru lake in so.cal..I pitched a chartruse and white stike king spinner bait into a drop off and nailed a 5lb.6oz lmb.

I plan on gettin a better fish this year..

bassman31783 reply :

Yellow Magic Magnum. Bone Color. 7lbs 4oz. Nothing like seeing a big bass exploding a top water.

Bankbeater reply :

Memorial Day weekend 2007

5 lb.- 4 oz. LM on a Zoom z-nail.

BNKrust reply :

4" Berkley Power Worm - pumpkin/chart

9.4 lbs on Joe Pool Lake, TX

Hawghead reply :

Baby Brush Hog. T-Rigged. Watermelon green as I recall. 9 lbs.

brgbassmaster reply :

Strike king wild thang july 2005 pitching in lily pads 7lb 1oz.

Bass Dude reply :

With all the tons of tackle I have....

I caught my biggest bass on a 1/8 oz. Black Maribou Road Runner while I was fishing for panfish---from shore. I didn't have a scale on me, but there was no doubt that fish was pushing 7lbs. And for NY that is a very nice bass.

joshuaryan reply :

My Partner got her 9 lber early in the morning on a buzzbait. I got my 5 lber on a chatterbait.

farmpond1 reply :

I don't know but it must have had magical properties because by the time I got the bass to the boat, it had grown to over twice it's original size. ;D

bronzewb22 reply :

Late august on a weightless yum dinger in shad color. 9 pounds.

Bankfisher reply :

mid june. On a flat close to deep water. Berkley Texas rigged 5" sinking minnow. crawling it on the bottom. 26 incher. just shy of 8lbs.

paangler3117 reply :

Mine was in a small pond, march, 2000. For some reason, i didn't right the day in my log. 25 and 1/4 almost 6 on my scale. 7in floating rapala gold w/ black back. It was in the evening, almost dark.

Jim

basser89 reply :

3/8oz Picasso spinnerbait in May of 2007: 5lbs 12oz.

Fishing Doug reply :

Strike King 1/2 oz Spinner bait with painted blades. I can count on one hand how many fish I have caught on a spinner bait, one just happens to be my PB. Go figure.

jrhennecke reply :

March 2005. 4" YUM Dinger GreenPumpkin/Chart 10.13#

bassmaster3000 reply :

I caught mine on a 3 inch Chartruese curly tail grub!! ;D

Bob8899 reply :

Rattlin Rogue

Danny1991 reply :

Green pumpkin/green flake Zoom Trick worm T-rigged with a 1/4oz weight. Caught her last April around a dock in 2 fow. She was partially spawned out, and weighed 7lbs 2oz. She was realesed to fight another day! ;D

TommyBass reply :

Livebait: Shiner: 10lb 13 oz

Artificial: Rebel Pop-R : 7lb 8oz

Dave D reply :

My PB was 21" & 7lb. Caught in the spring full of eggs.

Caught on 1/2oz Blue/Chrome Rat-L-Trap.

Kind of a bad pic, but the memory is still fresh in my mind!

Big Tom reply :

Largemouth: Approx. 4 pound - Zoom Brush Hog (the biggun) - Watermelon Red

Smallmouth: 5 pounds - Zoom Fat Albert Grub - Watermelon Red

smallmouth89 reply :

PB Lake Smallmouth was a huge fish caught in a canoe and portage lake in Ontario while trolling a homemade black bomber style plug. It weighed over 10 pounds.

PB River Smallie is the one in my avatar which was a 20 incher caught on a Case Sinking Salty Shad.

PB Largemouth was a 10 pound 7 oz. fish I caught on a buoyant wooly bugger fished on a full sink fly line. It came from a private pond.

God Bless,

Don

fishin accomplished reply :

5 lbs. 2007. Large yellow rooster tail. Houston, Tx.

Bad to da Bass reply :

I caught my PB on a Zoom Trick worm (Redbug). I pitching the dock's pillings when she got on my hook. She probably went about 4.5, I know it is not a huge fish but it is my PB.

8-)

shootermcbob reply :

Mine came on a jitterbug two summers ago. It was still dark out and I caught a 22 inch long largemouth bass...scared the crap out of me. I have no idea how much it weighed..didn't have a scale. Also, and this is important.... I caught this fish with a Zebco 33 spincasting outfit bought at walmart for 19.99. ;D

David P reply :

1/2oz hand tied jig, 13lb3oz

deltabass1990 reply :

actually caught my personal best a week and a half ago . Fishing a small lake in Dockery , Mississippi . 65 degrees Sunny . Used a Rat-L-Trap (Chrome with a blue back) 7lb 5 oz. First cast in the water lol!

starbuck reply :

6 pound 10 ounce Smallmouth - mid summer - black bandit 300 crankbait

4 pound 4 ounce large mouth - early fall 10 inch plum paddle tail worm texas rigged

Bubba_Bruiser reply :

July 1997 - 9 lbs even - Zoom Smoke blue 6" lizard - had the bullet tooth picked 2' above the worm to let it sit on top of the grass. I thought I was hung on a log. I couldn't tell if the line was moving or the boat due to the wind, so I decided to sock it home and take my chances. Glad I did.

fourbizz reply :

LM: 10" Power Worm 13-1

SM: 6" Huddleston 4-15

SPOT: 5-0 and 5-2 same day on a 10" Triple Trout

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