biggest bass youve ever caught? 2025

flippinmaster reply :

What is the biggest bass you have ever caught.

preach4bass reply :

7-3, what's yours flip?

Raul reply :

13.86 lbs.

phisher_d reply :

5.75 lbs of pure Canadian largemouth bass

(well, they don't grow too big up here)

tipptruck1 reply :

5 pound small mouth. And a 2 pound large mouth.

directlink reply :

8 lbs. ;D

bronzeback_NW reply :

7lb 8oz lagremouth. And a 6lb 9oz smallmouth caught this year on oct 10th during a tournament.

roadwarrior reply :

Smallmouth: 8 lbs, 1/15/05, Tennessee River

Largemouth: 12 lbs, 9/05/05, Public Pond, Germantown, TN

Kentucky: 4 1/2 lbs, Quachita Lake, AR

8srohleder reply :

Biggest bass I ever caught was a 7 lb. 2 oz.

Cedar Bluff Resevoir in Kansas.

Awesome lodge with hunting and fishing there. Guided and everything.

Heres their website. http://cedarblufflodge.com

Check out the pictures.

Curado reply :

Largemouth bass 7 lbs.

Smallmouth bass 4 lbs.

jayhawkfishin reply :

4 1/2 Smallmouth

4 1/4 Largemouth

Same day, Same basic spot, Same lure

Fishie reply :

Largemouth about 8.5 or so Public Lake

Smallmouth about 3.5 on Ky Lake.

Spot about 4 on Table Rock.

rocknfish9001 reply :

6 pound michigan bass.

TKSBASS reply :

This is my first post here. I have been reading these forums alot. I really enjoy this website.

My biggest bass are:

11 lb 8 oz largemouth

10 lb 4 oz largemouth

10 lb 2 oz largemouth

9 lb 6 oz largemouth

9 lb 3 oz largemouth

That is my top 5 fish.....I would like to post some pics but need a little help getting that done. :-[

playmaker47 reply :

19 1/2"

basser89 reply :

5-9 largemouth

3-4 smallmouth

stratoscaster reply :

10.2 LM

Nick_Barr reply :

Northern Largemouth (WA): 6 1/2-7 lbs. on 6 lbs. test McCoy, Ghost Baits G-Stick Color# 16

Smallmouth: 5 lbs. 4 oz. on 6 lbs. test McCoy, ghost baits Z-Creeper color# 51

Rattletrap reply :

9 lb Largemouth in Big Bethel Reservoir in Hampton, Va. Several 8's came out of there also. In my USAF days at Langley AFB.

p-funk reply :

26.5" long, 8lbs even Largemouth out of Briery Creek Lake in VA.

<----- That's the one!

CJ reply :

7lb. LM.I caught it in the first tournament I ever fished.I was co-angling a BFL.4lb.13oz.SM.Caught them both this year.The same year I started using this forum and reading its articles!

bixbybasspro reply :

10 even

hookem19 reply :

6lb - LM

hopefully one day i will be able to compete with the likes of this crowd...but in the meantime i'm honing my skills

Hookem

BassinSoldier reply :

11lb 8oz hawg from Florida

10lbs even from the same spot

couple of 9's from a local private lake

numerous 8's from 'round my area

and my best to date sine I have been in Kentucky is 7lbs 9oz when I was home on leave from Iraq last June.

I have started to wonder whether my 7-9 toad is a largemouth or a spot because his mouth is so small and his fins are connected.

Kana reply :

LMB 6.5# at toledo bend

SMB 4 plus# on the Columbia in Oregon

Doesnt really count, but ill mention it for sheer weight and shock!:

Grass Carp 25 plus# in Japan

Vito reply :

14lbs. 6oz. Sandiego riverbottom pond last year. Watermelon Tiki stick, no wieght.

LowCountry_Lunker reply :

6lb 4oz. Private farm pond. Caught on a black hula-popper with a white skirt along the edges of lilly pads.

Lightninrod reply :

8/11-Lil Hustler Spinnerbait

Caught from the shore in a cotton field pond near Tifton, Ga back in Feb. of this year.

9 even--26"--Matt's Baby Bass

Caught in a public lake in middle Ga. managed by the state for big Bass and she was tagged by the state.

Both were returned to be caught again. Still lookin' for my first double-digit.

Dan

J._Bricker reply :

<------ Here she is, on 03/13/05, about 1100hrs, hooked her on a brush hogg. First bite of the day fishing with my 74 year old dad. Nothing like sharing the moment with the person who taught me how to fish , and winning the side wager for 1st fish and the biggest fish of the day ;D.

basspro48 reply :

7-3 LM

3-4 SM

I caught the LM in my lake using a 1/2oz. white Lunker Lure buzzbait. The SM was caught on a pumpkin/orange GYCB grub on a 1/4oz. jighead while wading in the upper James River.

rbreedi1 reply :

5 lbs 6 oz Largemouth

3 lb Smallmouth

AC_Doctor reply :

6.6# largemouth bass at an 8 acre pond in east central KS on a black w/ red flake Mann's swim worm weedless-rigged with no added weight in mid-June.

I could not believe how hard this bass pulled until he got twisted up in some

moss.

Siebert Outdoors reply :

LM 7.3

SM 4.5

KY approx 3

GobbleDog reply :

I've been serious bass fishing for 10+ years... I estimate that in my lifetime, I've probably caught about 8,000 bass or more.

Out of those 8,000+ bass, the biggest one was ... just 8.5 lbs. :'(

Shiners would probably help my chances of breaking double digits, but I'm just not a shiner fisherman. Hopefully someday my dream of catching a 10+ lber will come true. :-/

KU_Bassmaster. reply :

<----- 10 lbs. 8 oz. Caught on March 25, 2005 at Lake Fork.

Upnorth reply :

6-10 LM, caught last October on lake Guntersville. I know thats not that big by the Big G's standard, but I will be back this spring.

Krazy_Fox reply :

9.2 bass from Toledo Bend my home lake.

Biggest fish i ever caught on a rod and reel, well i know you guys won't believe this but I caught a 23 pound catfish out of Toledo Bend on a tiny torpedo. Yea shocked me too, some kind of freakish accident I was in a small cove fishing the torpedo when the catfish hit and then just swam right up to the boat and into my friends waiting net, was not even much of a fight. that was a weird day for sure.

Tenka reply :

Junebug Senko - high 2's low 3's Tules bay, NC Didn't have a scale or measuring tape with me at the time. Ihope to improve that by the end of 2006 width me being sent all across the states for training.

Sad isn't it!

Charles E. White reply :

My bigges t bass was a 12 pound 14 ounce. The most I ever caught was 76 largemouth in 3 hours. I had been to that lake dozens of time, nothing ever happend like that before or since and I have fished for bass for 50 years.

The funny part is I was teaching a friend to fish for bass that day. His first time fishing with lures LOL

Charles E. White reply :

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I've been serious bass fishing for 10+ years... I estimate that in my lifetime, I've probably caught about 8,000 bass or more.
Out of those 8,000+ bass, the biggest one was ... just 8.5 lbs. :'(

Shiners would probably help my chances of breaking double digits, but I'm just not a shiner fisherman. Hopefully someday my dream of catching a 10+ lber will come true. :-/

8,000 bass in 10 years, that is quite an accomplishment, I have fished for bass since I was six years old and have fished for 50 years and you have beat me by about 2,000 bass .

Raul reply :

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I've been serious bass fishing for 10+ years... I estimate that in my lifetime, I've probably caught about 8,000 bass or more.
Out of those 8,000+ bass, the biggest one was ... just 8.5 lbs. :'(

Shiners would probably help my chances of breaking double digits, but I'm just not a shiner fisherman. Hopefully someday my dream of catching a 10+ lber will come true. :-/

That 's a good example on how scarce Big Mommas can be, in my best year back in the early 90 's when I was younger and fresh out of Vet school and single and I had time to fish whenever I wanted and was able to visit Mexico 's big bass lakes regularily I caught 12 fish over 10 pounds, 3 of them including my personal best in the same trip. But those are cherished memories; now in a good year I 'm lucky if I catch a couple.

bitethebullet reply :

My first time bass fishing I went to Stick marsh and caught a 26" 9lb. didn't realize just what I had done and promptly threw it back without taking a photo :-/ nevertheless I was hooked and have yet to repeat that feat > Largest in a tourney is 6.62 which was only third largest of the day. Lake Istokpoga in August on a tiki stick. Patiently awaiting double digits

kodeman94 reply :

the biggest bass i have caught was a 4lb. little rhodey largemouth in a little pond in my neck of the woods.

Triton21 reply :

2 - 8lb 6oz largemouth 1966 Kansas farm pond, 1986 Toledo bend

6lb 10oz Smalmouth Lake Cumberland, Keentucky

3lb 4oz Spot Kentucky Lake

Preston reply :

This is about my 4th year fishing and ive got a 4 1/2 smallmouth 22 inches caught on a Rapala Countdown, and then a 4 largemouth on a 1/16 ounce bitsy bug jig. Im hunting a 5lb smallmouth this year but i hope this freakshow warm winter in Tennessee wont mess up the prespawn.

dink reply :

Got an 8+ in 47 degree water in early March just east of St. Louis on a white spinnerbait reeeling so slow I almost fell asleep. Also caught a 44 lb. carp with a plastic worm at night picking out a backlash.

champ187xr6 reply :

8 even. I hope for double digits some day.

Master_Hunter_1977 reply :

Those are some nice fish guys. My LM aren't as impressive

LM 4.16 Lb

SM 5.89 Lb

The smallmouth was during a tourney and got big bass. It was in the spring though.

Good luck fishing.

Captain Cali reply :

The biggest for me so far was a little over 5 pounds. It's the fish in my avatar.

2 of my goals for 2006 are to catch my first smallie and striper. Never fished for smallies and only twice for stripers. Those stripers crash the top like runaway trains!!

Midgeman reply :

9 1/2 pound smallmouth, 26" length 18" girth

Springtime 3/99 at the mouth of the Little Pigeon and French Broad River, 1/8 oz. Bitsy Bug w/tiny chunk, 6 lb line. I will never forget the fight or the fish!

11 pound largemouth, Florida Everglades. The shiner was almost as big, hehe. :

Ben reply :

14.3 largemouth in 1969

31 lb striper,

We don't have smallmouth near me so never caught one

Biggest stringer was in Clarks Hill back in the mid 60's, 28 large mouth, between 6.5 and 9.5 lbs, most being 7.5 - 8.5, all along a 200' stretch of riprap in less than two hours. This was me and a friend, don't know who caught the most or biggest but we both claim to have.

How many fish have I ever mounted that I've caught, ZERO. Mounted one 8 pounder for my son he caught when he was eight. He has released all big bass since then, including one over 10.

How many bass over two pounds have I kept since the early 80's, ZERO.

tjs97 reply :

caught a 6 1/2 lbs LM on live perch while catfishing ( also caught a 14 lbs flathead that night on my mh 7' falcon ;D) on Onapa lake,OK.

and a 6 lbs LM on a cheap walmart crankbait on Checotah lake west, OK.

All in 2005

BiggerWorm reply :

Mine was 7.5 lbs. Caught in Indiana during prespawn on a rattle trap.

-Drums- reply :

6-3 largemouth - Raleigh, NC

3 (even) smallmouth - Loudon, TN

FisinCrazee reply :

10.8 L/M Military Res, S/E Virginia

9.9 L/M Same Military Res, different lake

8.10 L/M Big Bethel Reser, Hampton VA ("Member Rattletrap"-nice fishing- 1977)

Several smaller 8's below the above listed and many 7's.

BassNut reply :

My biggest Bass to date:

6.2 SMB caught on the CT River

5.8 LMB caught in a 3 acre pond

alhuff reply :

7lbs for me....hoping to increase that this year...............

Alfred

jjo reply :

7-4 the nip bridgewater ma.

PeterF reply :

My largest was 14 lbs. too bad he spit my bait just before I got him in the boat ;D. Last year he was 13 lbs. but this is a new year.

Rattlinrogue reply :

12.2 Largemouth 7/5/03 Geiger Lake 6:35 AM

hipster_dufus reply :

9 lbs even, lost abigger one at the boat last year.will buy a net this year

Javelin_Venom reply :

Biggest bass I have caught so far is a 5 lb. 10 ounce largemouth out of Patoka Lake in Indiana. Caught it cranking a Firetiger Berkley Frenzy medium diver off of a rocky shore that had some vegitation coming out about 5ft off shore. Fought so hard I thought it was a 7 pounder. Going down to El Salto this June and I'm hoping to break into the double digits there.

Crank_Baits reply :

i suck biggest was 1 to about 1.5 pounds i think Sm might be Lm, i started fishing 2005

this was mainly because of my stupidity i was fishing in NOWHERE LAND, i wouldn;t gonear tree stumps or anythig like that.

BTW when i caught this i was having a competion who can cast a cb ( we got 4 free) the farthest, it was a pike bait i think so i was casting and i caught this fish. Funny thing is the bait was about 10- 18 cm smaller then fish

guest reply :

Largemouth bass: 8lbs 9oz

I have never been fishing for smallmouths. I would love too, but we don't grow them down here.

My biggest catfish was 23.3 on Lake O'Pines. everybody was posting two fish so I could only throw in a bass and catfish. ;D :-/

YFZKC reply :

My biggest LM was only 6+, but the carp in my avitar that I netted, yes netted which almost ended my butt in the pond, was a nice 55lbs only like 5 lbs shy of the ks record. ;D

nateobs reply :

8 lbs 9oz. Baldpate pond Boxford, MA 11/16/04 2:30 pm

strike king bitsy tube lizard pumpkin/chart. tail 1/16 oz. slip sinker. 8lb. trilene xt.

bassbuster29 reply :

mine would have to be a 7 1/2 lber...caught in a big pond back in the woods

geedavid reply :

8# even Largemouth caught at Mountain Lake in Oklahoma.

Bait: 5/16 Eakins Jig, Hand tied brown living rubber w/ green pumpkin craw

dixonfrank23 reply :

ive caugit 17.3 large mouth accourding to my scale i never weighed it in the ranger station where i fish i didnt want to kill it!

WCCT reply :

7lb. 10oz. largemouth

6lb. 2oz. smallmouth

Mikey40 reply :

6 pound largemouth

3 pound smallmouth

both caught in oregon

John J. reply :

3 pound 10 ounce bass caught at a friend's pond on a beetlespin...(i don't bass fish much...mostly catfish but now i am getting into it )

sodaksker reply :

19" largemouth estimate 4 lbs

17" Smallie estimate 2.5 lbs

MyKeyBe reply :

My biggest was this one here.

It was heavy. Looked big. Somewhere between one and ten pound's? ;D

My best guess is three to four pounds. Well, then again. Now that I think about it... It was closer to ten! :-? ;D

Poor Richard reply :

7# in a tiny lake in Western Washington, which isn't a state that's especially hospitiable to bass. Among my colleagues, it was beaten only by a seven and a half. In Michigan, I've yet to beat five. But I have found this one pond . . . .

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Tip of the week: Fishin' ain't as good as it used to be, and it never was.

FlyRod reply :

8 lbs. 4 oz.

On...what else? 8-)...Fly rod, #6 weight, 3 lb. test tippet, teensy little poppin' bug.

Large stock pond (we call 'em stock tanks) in Texas while fishing for big bluegills.

Was fishing from a little foot-powered paddlewheeler like you rent at a park.

It took a while .

F.Rod

Bankbeater reply :

4-1/2 pounds. Got him on Lake Of The Ozarks.

guest reply :

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Largemouth bass: 8lbs 9oz
I have never been fishing for smallmouths. I would love too, but we don't grow them down here.

My biggest catfish was 23.3 on Lake O'Pines. everybody was posting two fish so I could only throw in a bass and catfish. ;D :-/

guest reply :

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Largemouth bass: 8lbs 9oz
I have never been fishing for smallmouths. I would love too, but we don't grow them down here.

My biggest catfish was 23.3 on Lake O'Pines. everybody was posting two fish so I could only throw in a bass and catfish. ;D :-/

guest reply :

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Largemouth bass: 8lbs 9oz
I have never been fishing for smallmouths. I would love too, but we don't grow them down here.

My biggest catfish was 23.3 on Lake O'Pines. everybody was posting two fish so I could only throw in a bass and catfish. ;D :-/

j-bass reply :

These lil fellers are some of the bigger ones I've caught 6lbs and 7.5lbs

Poor Richard reply :

Stratoscaster: You have noticed, haven't you, that the reason 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish is that those 10% do 90% of the fishing?

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Watch the fish, not the fishermen.

tkite reply :

6 1/2 largemouth lake jacomo ,Kansas City Mo crappie jig

3 1/2 lb smallmouth big river south of St Louis rat l trap

Biggest fish

378 lb bull shark caught on 7 lb tuna my wife had caught key largo fl

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