I was wondering what lure/depth/cover you were fishing when you caught your PB largemouth. I have been able to catch lots of fish from 1-2 lbs but I have only a few over 2 lbs.

 

My PB was a 2.5 pound largemouth on a Rebel Crickhopper near shallow water reeds.

 

These are my favorite techniques. Wacky Worms under boat docks, frogs in lily pads and other shallow water cover and topwaters (mainly poppers) over shallow water weeds. The lakes that I usually fish don't have many logs in shallow water. I have hardly fished for bass in water that is deeper than 6-10 feet. Thanks for any help.

Black 1/2 jig with strike king chunk.

Using larger lures tend to bring larger fish (though not always). Try some jigs, 4" tubes, creatures baits, or some swim baits. Those usually tend to produce larger fish. Crickhoppers are great lures but the dinks seem to get at them before the big ones can even get a bead on it.

I was using a Sizmic Toad (topwater) when I caught my personal best. Numbers 2, 3 and 4 were also caught on topwaters.

flipping a jig in about 3fow around docks caught my pb but i've caught some toads on a football jig in about 18fow on humps.

Caffeine shad during the spawn on weed lines. 3 FOW.

Grub, topwater frog and a nightcrawler on a bobber....lol

1/8 shakey head 4 inch zoom finesse worm caught a 25 incher

I caught my 5.5 lb PB last fall in a shallow flat that was about 2 feet deep using a red and black xcalibir square bill.

8 lbs on a watermelon red trick worm T rigged and fished on bottom. Ol girl had just laid eggs and barely put up a fight. Woulda liked to have gotten her a day earlier

My PB 6.3 lb was caught on a 1/4 oz war eagle flipping jig with a paca chunk trailer in a laydown. 4 fow.

8+ lbs in 3-5 fow on a 1-2 diving baby bass crankbait.

 

I fish mainly in water conditions that you described. Try to up the size of your bait, although large fish will eat any size lure. Keep at it and you'll land some larger fish, it takes time and practice! I catch a lot of large fish on zoom brush hog's and weightless 8-10 inch ribbon tail worms for whatever reason.

My PB was 10.2 caught on a 3/4 oz lipless SK red eye shad. Depth was 12-15 feet off a point.

Interesting to see how shallow most of these big fish were caught.

My 7.25# was in 2-4 FOW. I was on the bank throwing the smallest soft plastic bait I own (GYCB shad-shaped worm) on a drop shot with an 18" leader to a 1/8oz weight.

22"lmb caught it drop shotting on the outskirts of bluegill beds in 3-4 fow using a motoroil zipperworm

G-finish Shad Zara Spook.  Cast next to a laydown tree.  Let it sit for about 1 minute, then twitched the lure.  Just over 10 lb.

21.5" on a t-rigged pumpkin mag finesse worm during the spawn in less than 3 FOW. just shy of 6 lbs.

Crickhoppers are great lures but the dinks seem to get at them before the big ones can even get a bead on it.

I wasn't trying to catch big fish at the time. I was fishing for panfish. The bass broke one of the points off the back hook.

Sounds like a heck a fight.

9.78 on a june bug brush hog flipped into a pad field in 3 ft water.

I was in a 10ft john boat and that thing pulled that boat in 2 complete circles and we ended up about 10yds from where she hit.

I was sceaming like a little girl!!

Mike

I caught my 10lb 4oz pb in about 19 feet of water on a 1/2oz strike king football head jig. She didn't put up that much of a fight cause it was right after the spawn. Still really exciting seeing a fish that big come lurking from the depths

Just caught mine today.  Little over 3lb on a black 3/8 Booyah buzzbait.

Mine was caught on an 8" Zoom Magnum lizard in watermelon seed. I was actually reeling in to make another cast and saw her closing in on it quickly so I released the spool and let it sink, only went about a foot back towards the bottom when my line stopped sinking. Didn't have a depthfinder on the boat but I'd guess we were in the 15-20 foot range.

10lb 14 oz caught deep cranking tree tops.  Crank was running about 20' and the bass were suspending in the tree tops.  They were sitting 20-25 foot down but the actual depth was about 35-40 fow.

 

Jeff

Sounds like a heck a fight.

It was!! I had a 5 and 1/2 foot zebco slingshot combo. 6 lb test line.

12' deep in a 3 acre pond, pond it full of timber and a big fish.  dragging a zoom junebug/chartreuse trick worm(1/8 oz split shot above the worm) over the timber.