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jeremyt reply :

I just got finished looking through some of my old BASS magazines, specifically the lunker club section and it got me to thinking. If you were to go out and be guarenteed a 7+ smallie or a 12+ largemouth which would you prefer?

My personal thoughts is I would rather catch a big smallmouth. My reasoning is that I have never caught a smallmouth at all, the closest oppurtunities for one are over 5 hours away.

00 mod reply :

Smallie all the way.

Jeff

kickerfish1 reply :

I have caught smallies up to 5.75 pounds. Biggest largemouth is only 6.5 pounds. Personally I would take the 12 pound largemouth. It would nearly double my personal best and also would be nice to have a double digit bass.

Long Mike reply :

About the only thing left on my Bucket list is a double digit LMB. I seldom have the opportunity to fish for smallies, so am not much interested in them.

scaleface reply :

On 11/11/2012 at 4:51 AM, kickerfish1 said:

I have caught smallies up to 5.75 pounds. Biggest largemouth is only 6.5 pounds. Personally I would take the 12 pound largemouth. It would nearly double my personal best and also would be nice to have a double digit bass.

Thats how feel.' I have a lunker smallmouth'

NBR reply :

I have fished some pretty good lakes (Big O, Tarpon, the Everglades, Eufaula AL/GA, Reelfoot, Dale Hollow, St. Clair, Rainy, Lake of the Woods, Grand Traverse Bay and many others for large and smallmouth. I've never caught a bonafide 6# + largie and 4#15oz. is my biggest smallie. Frankly I don't think about it any more. I have a good time fishing and and if I catch one in the lnker class I'll never be sure cause it goes right back in the water. My hand helh scale will give me a ball park if I pull it out of the boats storage.

Bassn Blvd reply :

I have the opporatunity to catch a 12# LM everytime I go fishing here in S. Florida, so I'd take the smallmouth since I never caught one.

K_Mac reply :

A 12 pound LM would be my choice. That would be a legitimate monster in the waters I fish, and be almost 4 # bigger than my PB.

WRB reply :

7 + lb smallie!

Tom

Bluebasser86 reply :

Our state record for both are smaller than those weights but I've caught a DD largemouth so I'd have to go with the smallie!

bowhunter63 reply :

Smallie all the way,I love fishing for them both.I got the smallie bug bad.

SirSnookalot reply :

I've caught some hefty smallmouth when I lived in Michigan and catch some great LM here in Florida, of the 2 I'd prefer DD LMB. The closest we have to smallmouth in South Florida are peacocks and jack crevelles.

CoBass reply :

Both fish would beat our current state records by less than a pound. I know which lake I need to fish to find the 7lb smallie, but a 12lb largemouth would be much harder to find so, I'd have to go with the LMB.

Tuckahoe Joe reply :

Thats a tough one. Ive never caught a smallie before and a 7lber would be awesome. But then again, so would a 12lb largemouth. Im gonna say largemouth cuz a 12lber would be a state record. Smallmouth record is 8.4lbs.

Dwight Hottle reply :

I would take the 12lb largemouth.

SoFlaBassAddict reply :

Largemouth.....

I'd much rather catch a DD Peacock though.

greyleg33 reply :

Smallie, no doubt.

bkohlman reply :

12 largemouth for me

papajoe222 reply :

I'd have to catch them both and compare the experiences before making any kind of decision Either would almost double my personal bests and although I believe that pound for pound a smallie is the hardest fighting freshwater fish, a DD largemouth has been a dream for decades for me.

J Francho reply :

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I believe that pound for pound a smallie is the hardest fighting freshwater fish

Pound for pound, steelhead are the hardest fighting FW fish that I know of. Ounce for ounce, props go to blue gill.

To answer the OP, I'd go with the 12 lb. largemouth. A 7 lb. smallie is a possibility in many of the waters I fish.

roadwarrior reply :

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RyneB reply :

smallie

papajoe222 reply :

On 11/12/2012 at 11:04 PM, J Francho said:
Pound for pound, steelhead are the hardest fighting FW fish that I know of.

LOL. If a smallie grew to the size of a steelhead, we'd have a good difference of opinion.

Refined N Focused reply :

I'm with the author, I'd rather catch a Smallie, I've never caught one before and the closest is about 1500 miles away from me

Nitrofreak reply :

I have been fishing for 40 years trying to get me a smallie, One day I will have that chance...I hope, but I dream of that double digit LMB almost every night, I keep knocking on that door and I hope to someday answer it, so if I had a really good shot at that 12lb'er then thats where you would find me.

Big-O, Im comin to see ya LOL !!!

Bankbeater reply :

I would go for the 12+ LM. That would almost be a state record here.

Dale Bryant reply :

It would be hard to turn down a double digit largemouth, I don't care who you are. But in general I think smallie fishing is more rewarding so I'd love to catch a 7 pounder.

J Francho reply :

On 11/13/2012 at 6:37 AM, papajoe222 said:

LOL. If a smallie grew to the size of a steelhead, we'd have a good difference of opinion.

They're pretty close. Both are acrobatic. Smaller steelhead, around 5-6 lbs. pull about as hard. The difference is in the length of the battle, and the pure struggle they put up. A good smallie on light line might take 3-4 minutes. The same steelie might be closer to 7-8 minutes. But yeah, a 10 lb. smallie? Let's just say that's a battle NO ONE would forget.

Siebert Outdoors reply :

I'd have to go with the Smallie.

NEjitterbugger reply :

Well if I were to catch the 12 pound LMB in NH than I would take that because it would be the state record, lol...

Besides that I would take a 7 pound smallie, the biggest LM ive caught is a 5lbs 11oz, and only a 2.5 pound smallie.

PABASS reply :

Smallmouth for sure, 7#s of "raw" power, in a river man that would be a crazy battle.. I caught a somewhat big LM and it was nothing compared to a 4# smallie in the river...

I fish in fast, ultra clear water, wadding in 3-5 feet and if a smallie like that ran I be swimming after it for sure, like Jeremy wade..

kylek reply :

Big smallmouth for me!!!

slonezp reply :

6 and a halfish is my biggest LM. Around 5 for my biggest SM. I can't believe a 7b smallie would fight much different than a 5 lbr, but I'm sure a 12lb largie would be quite a different fight than my PB. The LM is a prettier fish also. More visually apealling. Even though I believe the smallie is a much scrappier fighter, my vote is largemouth.

NEjitterbugger reply :

On 11/14/2012 at 5:43 AM, PABASS said:

Smallmouth for sure, 7#s of "raw" power, in a river man that would be a crazy battle.. I caught a somewhat big LM and it was nothing compared to a 4# smallie in the river...

I fish in fast, ultra clear water, wadding in 3-5 feet and if a smallie like that ran I be swimming after it for sure, like Jeremy wade..

LOL

Curved reply :

One side of me knows how much of a thrilling fight SMB put up, but I'd go with the LMB because I haven't caught a big LMB yet.

Ratherbfishing reply :

Blonde, brunette, or redhed? Heck I'd be please as pigs in ***** either way.

Fish Chris reply :

Geeez, I dunno..... Either would make it a pretty good trip Think I've caught about 10 Smallies over 7 lbs, and 20 LMB over 12 lbs, and they were all fun

Honestly, I'd rather catch a 40+ lb Striper than either of these ^ ....just because I haven't done this yet.

Peace,

Fish

wademaster1 reply :

Wouldn't argue with either or turn my nose up but I'd take the largemouth. Bigger fish all around and I've always wanted an 11+ lmb

Tyler j reply :

Smallmouth definatly those things fight like a hawg throwing a tube or hair jig cant go wrong

A-Jay reply :

I'm going with the big LMB too -

And I hope to do it in the spring - a little south of the Border . . . .

A-Jay

Scorcher214 reply :

That's tough. Pound for pound, smallies fight harder. But a 12lb largemouth would get me the state record!

BassAssassin726 reply :

Def the 12 pound largemouth. The PA state record largemouth is 11.3 pounds, and its almost 30 years old. So I would love to be the one to break that record. State record Smallie is 8.8 but id still rather have the largie.

Sam reply :

The correct answer is: BOTH!!!!

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