I caught my personal best LMB last week.  I thought it was interesting because I had 5 rods on the deck.  I had a jig, 10 inch thumper worm on a Carolina Rig, deep diving crankbait, bronzeye frog, and t-rigged Rage craw all tied on.  I thought I'd get the larger fish on the C-rig fishing deep because that was the pattern that day but I ended up catching my PB (6.8lb, 22 in.) on the Rage Craw pitching to docks after the C-rig bite slowed down.  That's my confidence bait.  That got me to wondering what others have caught their PB on.  

 LMB ~ Strike King Red Eye Shad ~ 3/4 oz in Sexy Shad.

 

SMB ~ Lucky Craft Pointer 128 in American Shad

 

A-Jay

Derps Two Fiddy

5" Senko

Largemouth  -  Wacky Rig, 5" Senko

Smallmouth  -  drop shot,  KVD dream shot 

Rapala Shad Rap size 7 color Shad ( SR7SD ) 13.86 lbs

June bug Brush Hog

Mike

A 3.5 inch tube with a 3/16oz tube jig head.

 

I still think fishing a tube is boring.

Largemouth: Wacky Rig BPS Stik-O 5"

Smallmouth:  Bomber Model A crankbait

Yum Wollee Bullee in Black/Red Flake. Ironically, the first soft plastic bait I had ever bought. Used them a couple of times, didn't care for them. Pulled them out about a year later, and BOOM!

1.5 Silent Square Bill in a basic shad pattern. Those 1.5 Silent baits really do well around here all year, but especially in the spring and fall, mostly die to the bass keying on shad movement at those times. 9/10 times with those its a feeding strike, then in the summer time i go to a 2.5 or larger bait and bump it off cover or use a noisy bait to get reaction strikes. Sorry for writing a book lol

Not absolutely sure which fish was bigger, but it is either a Pearl White Zoom Superfluke, or a 6th Sense Crush 300DD in Live Baby Bluegill.

9" Bull Shad

White buzzbait

Largemouth (US): 5.1 pounds - DT10 custom painted craw

Smallmouth (US): 20" (no weight) - Tube

 

Largemouth (CAD): 22" (no weight) - chart/white spinnerbait

Smallmouth (CAD): 21.75" (no weight) - Skitter Pop frog

 

I like to count Canada as totally different because the fishing up there is totally different from the heavily pressured waters around here in western PA. 

Gold Leverage 1/2oz buzzbait.

Scum Frog. Green and white

4" black w/blue fleck senko, T-rigged weightless 8 lb trilene xl, 6' med spinning rod (wife's outfit).

Didn't get an official weight, but it measured 27 1/2 x 20. I've caught a few fish close to 10 lbs before and this thing dwarfed them. But no picture so it didn't happen...

Capt. Ken Daubert #4 Brown Spotted Bull Clone Frog - http://www.floridakayakfishing.com/clone-series-frogs.html

My personal best are tied....

1 on a Homemade green pumpkin orange burst 5/16oz jig

1 on a white booyah 3/8oz spinner one small Colorado and one larger willow leaf.

An odd bait that I don't think was around very long. A Yum Big Show Paddle Worm. I think it was touted as a Terry Scroggins design.

Seems like a good mix of stuff like I expected but I do see a good amount of folks having success with senkos.  

 

4" black w/blue fleck senko, T-rigged weightless 8 lb trilene xl, 6' med spinning rod (wife's outfit).
Didn't get an official weight, but it measured 27 1/2 x 20. I've caught a few fish close to 10 lbs before and this thing dwarfed them. But no picture so it didn't happen...

 

Just to make sure I follow the "no pic so if didn't happen" rule, here's a pic of my PB.  I WISH we could see 10 pounders like that but we just don't see fish like that all that often up here.  The state record is 11lbs and change.  

 

Jig n craw.

Top 3 pbs all came off a 5.8 jackall flickshake wacky rigged

Nice fish. Mine's in the Avatar