This has to do with when you caught your pb or fish of whatever species you fish for to this day . i'll tell you how and what i felt like when i caught my pb, it happens to this day but not always , when i catch small or med size bass i get a very tiny adrenalin rush and sometimes not any , but when i caught my pb after i finally fought it for about 10 min and got it inside the boat, i was offered a beer from my brother and couldn't drink the d**n thing because my heart rate was way up ,im out of breath just about and was shaking quite a bit all in 10 min, that's one time i'll always remember and never forget . what was your pb experience like? and how did it effect you if any? and does that still happen or not so much? it must have done something ,some how ,some way when you caught your pb ,i haven't anything even come close to my pb experience i went through . what's your story?

Bass anglers come in 2 groups of anglers, numbers and big bass anglers. The numbers anglers far out number the big bass bass anglers. Catching bass is the goal, catching big bass is a hope, not a goal for most anglers.

For me Catching big bass has always been a goal. My 1st big bass was named Mosses because it was an old bass that took me a few seasons to finally catch,I was 10 years old.

I read everything about bass and everything about the world record bass caught by George Perry, that became my goal to catch the next world record. At age 12 I caught a 11 lb bass at lake Havasu, age 15 a 12 1/2. Lb bass. Big bass are my goal and with a few hundred over 10 lbs and 5 between 17 to 19 lbs, I am still seeking my goal of catching a world record bass.

Tom

Tom, that's a impressive résumé , to say the least.

My all species PB was a 52in. muskie that I bagged on the last day of my yearly treck to Wisconsin.  I didn't even have a follow on that lake all day and had given up and headed to the lauch.  With three guys ahead of me, I grabbed my bucktail rod and just started fan casting the bay.  It really didn't hit me, what I'd accomplished, until after I released her.  I sat there shaking for at least 15min. and it took me three tries to back my trailer into the water (I'm a truck driver!).  I didn't really calm down until I was back at the hotel and had downed a celebratory beverage.  The first couple of times that I spoke about catching her, I got the shakes again.  I did get some what similar rushes when I caught my PB largemouth and walley that were short lived, but I haven't set a goal for them.  My goal for muskie had always been  50in.

I was .... Like.... Ho. Hum. Just another day on the water. Not.

My reaction was similar to the jokers you see on the deer hunting shows after shooting a nice buck... No drug could ever match the high I felt that day... once I got over thinking I was having a heart attack lol.

Growing up on Lake St. Clair I caught some really nice fish of a variety of species, never kept track of a personal best for anything.  Now that I'm in Florida, not young anymore and fish daily it's more difficult to get excited, we have some good sized fish down here.  I'm more into the challenge than the size, I left a solid 20# bite many times this summer to fish for peacocks, my friends thought I was crazy, maybe so.  Catching a 5# pea is a challenge in locating one then enticing a strike, the fight is no big deal at least compared to some of the other species here.

A personal best means very little to me.

I get really excited every time I catch a fish but when I caught my PB, that was crazy it is a rush like no other

I did the NASCAR yell, like WOOO! Then took 15 mintues to collect myself haha

My brother: "I have a good feeling about today."

 

Me: "Don't say that, every time you say that, we have a bad day."

 

So when I cast into a pocket near the shore a few minutes later, slow reel back.  The fish comes out of nowhere and inhales my crankbait.  I wait 2 seconds and sweep the rod back thinking its a 2  lber.  4 or 5 minute fight, 5.5lb bass on a 5'6 spinning rod.  Let's just say I was jacked up for the rest of the day and my brother put 3 more 5lb+ fish in the boat one being his PB of 6.5lb.  Both of us put numerous 2-4 lbers in the boat as well.  His buddy caught a 7.5lb one that day too.  I don't know what happened that day but they were all hitting anything we threw out.

I was pumped for a couple of days, to say the least.

Bass anglers come in 2 groups of anglers, numbers and big bass anglers. The numbers anglers far out number the big bass bass anglers. Catching bass is the goal, catching big bass is a hope, not a goal for most anglers.

For me Catching big bass has always been a goal. My 1st big bass was named Mosses because it was an old bass that took me a few seasons to finally catch,I was 10 years old.

I read everything about bass and everything about the world record bass caught by George Perry, that became my goal to catch the next world record. At age 12 I caught a 11 lb bass at lake Havasu, age 15 a 12 1/2. Lb bass. Big bass are my goal and with a few hundred over 10 lbs and 5 between 17 to 19 lbs, I am still seeking my goal of catching a world record bass.

Tom

That is impressive.

After I caught my personal best.... It made me hungry for more !!

I was shaking 10x as much when I caught the winning fish for the North Country Roundup a few years ago.  It was just a 4 lber, but I had talked smack about winning for six months.  I knew I had it in the bag with that fish.  Big largemouth are very rare on Saranac.  My PB in NY is a 7-2, it felt like reeling in an old boot.  I was more shocked after getting it on the scale than anything.

get the net get the net!!! as soon as the fish came in the boat the hook fell out! hands shaking and heart beating through my chest!

It was to many years ago I don't remember!

My feeling of elation was somewhat marred by the question "why did it take you so long"

I was excited to catch it, disappointed it was so skinny, she could have been 13-14 pounds if she wasn't so skinny.