Here's my PB Spotted Bass

 

Nice spot man!

great PBs everyone! my PB smallie is in my avatar and im afraid to say its only a couple ounces over 3 pounds!

13.4lb largemouth on 7" senko wacky rig

13.4lb largemouth on 7" senko wacky rig

 

 

Pics?

Wife's donkey:

 

 

 

 

I don't have a pic of my nine so an eight will have to do:

 

 

 

5lb6oz Baby Bass Pop-R but obviously i have a ways to go based on these posts...

6lb7oz on a Umbrella Rig.

Didn't think I would be posting in this thread again so soon. Caught today on Conesus lake, 7lbs 1oz. on a jig. Rod was a 7'6" H Abu Vendetta, reel was a gen1 Abu Revo STX (thanks for the good luck Shane!!), 50lb power pro braid, 20lb Seaguar red label fluoro leader.

 

 

 

6 pounds on a wacky rigged shim e stick in smokey shad.

Pics?

no pics dude im sorry i didnt have my phone at the time

LM = 6 lbs (5-6 of them... cannot get over the hump!). I had a 12+ within about 5 feet of the boat until she did an unanticipated head shake when I took my eye off of her waiting for the net. That still hurts. Literally every time I go by that spot, painful. Took a buddy out for his birthday last spring (gets to fish 3-4x/year) and he caught a 10 lb 4 oz out of the back of my boat on a 4" grub I rigged up for him. Go figure!

8'9" Bull Shark estimated at over 350.  I was within ounces of the state record for a chain pickerel too 7 lb 2oz.

8'9" Bull Shark estimated at over 350.  I was within ounces of the state record for a chain pickerel too 7 lb 2oz.

 

 

man a 7lb pickerel did you take any pics? I'd imagine it looks like its the same size as a small musky or pike lol

man a 7lb pickerel did you take any pics? I'd imagine it looks like its the same size as a small musky or pike lol

 

It was before cell phones and digital cameras.  I don't think I'll ever top either of those fish!  Sucks.   All downhill from there!

PB Smallmouth - 7 lb. 0 oz.

 

 

I don't fish for Largemouth much.  Here is the biggest one I have caught, but I didn't weigh or measure it.

 

Beautiful fish Lucky Craft!

PB Smallmouth - 7 lb. 0 oz.

 

 

I don't fish for Largemouth much.  Here is the biggest one I have caught, but I didn't weigh or measure it.

 

 

That Smallmouth Bass is A BEAST !

 

btw - That back round looks Familiar

 

 

A-Jay

Hey Steve I hope you put that big smallie back so I can catch her next year.  The trouble with fishing lake erie for smallies a lot it is that it makes your largemouth look small unless they are grandes.

Hey Steve I hope you put that big smallie back so I can catch her next year.  The trouble with fishing lake erie for smallies a lot it is that it makes your largemouth look small unless they are grandes.

Wish i had that problem 

MarkH,

 

Thanks for the compliment.  I do catch myself looking at that picture of the smallmouth every once in a while (I was lucky to have my buddy fishing in his boat nearby, so he was able to get a good picture of it as opposed to me trying to hold the camera out with one hand and the fish in the other).

 

 

A-Jay,

 

Haha...I figured you would recognize the background of that first picture (actually, that location was about 100 yards from where I met you and Dwight that one day on the water).

 

 

Hey Steve I hope you put that big smallie back so I can catch her next year.  The trouble with fishing lake erie for smallies a lot it is that it makes your largemouth look small unless they are grandes.

 

Dwight,

 

She is swimming free right now (I release all my fish except for the occasional trout caught in a put-and-take stream where it wouldn't survive through the summer heat anyway).  I am surprised you are waiting until next year to try and catch her.  I am hoping to get a few chances to catch her again (or her big sister) this Fall. 

 

As far as largemouth go, it is hard to justify fishing for them when there is a fishery like Lake Erie just two hours away with trophy class smallmouth and as you mentioned, the largemouth around here are just not that big (unless you are Speedbead.  He has some special power in that beard of his, because the largemouth he catches are just obscene)

If we couldn't locate large bass we would move closer to Erie and target those world class smallies.

11.3 and NOT forced perspective! Elbows to the body baby.

 

 

11.3 and NOT forced perspective! Elbows to the body baby.

 

 

And here I thought I was the only one that still took photos like that. Nice fish!

So there are two separate "Personal Best" threads going.

 

This one has Great Pictures of Several Big Bass.

 

The other thread, not so much.

 

I am bewildered.

 

A-Jay