7 lb 6 oz caught this past July on a net bait B Bug.

7-9 on a trip to Falcon; crankbait in about 8 fow.

My PB is 23.7 lbs., but when I'm awake it's 8.52

Mine was app.8.5 pounds caught on a Mann's jelly worm when I was 19.This is a picture of the mount.

 

 Right off this one doesn't look very impressive but what one has to keep in mind is that I'm actually over 7 feet tall, weigh almost 500 lbs and have a Hindenburg size head . . . . 

So there's that.

    

A-Jay

18 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 Right off this one doesn't look very impressive but what one has to keep in mind is that I'm actually over 7 feet tall, weigh almost 500 lbs and have a Hindenburg size head . . . . 

So there's that.

    

A-Jay

Beautiful bass, congrats! 

Caught in a private pond in kansas on a 5" berkley havoc grass pig "bama bug" color with a 3/8 ounce SK squadron swimbait head

Here she is, got her on a 7" Alan Cole swimbait in April..... All I could say to my buddy was "She's BIG, get the net"! Now if I can figure out how to properly align the picture...

 

 

 

Nice fish!

We weighed her on two scales. The cheap one said 8-6, the more expensive one said 8-1. Caught her with that spinnerbait on the deck by my feet. 

Sounds like mine.I weighed mine with 3 scales.One said 8, one said 8 and a half, and one said 9.So I go with 8 and a half.The taxidermist said he thought 9.

My personal best Largemouth came on the opening day of fishing season in 2007. She was 21 1/2 inches and went 6 1/2 lbs. I caught it on a white Terminator Super Stainless spinnerbait. It was one of their bleeding bait series ones with the red hook as well as a few red strands in the skirt. My day started off pretty well when I caught an 18" LMB in the first 20 minutes. I boated one other dink shortly after, and then that tank hit. I just remember how gigantic the mouth looked when she started jump boat side.

Opening day of 2008 I managed to catch my PB smallie that was 20 1/2" and tipped the scales at 5 lbs. We were fishing in my dads boat which we were quickly finding out that his tm batteries were totally shot and needed to be replaced. As we drifted across a shallow stumpy flat (because the tm was completely dead) I coaxed her from a big stump she was hiding by.

The last one is tied with my PB smallie. It came in at 20 1/2" and 5 lbs even. I think it probably edges out the other one just because it wasn't caught pre-spawn. I caught her on Sturgeon Bay this past fall on a drop shot. She was down in a small school on a channel buoy anchor.  She put up one heck of a fight and was a beautiful fish. The picture doesn't do it justice. 

Best largemouth is 11lb-2oz caught in Florida.

Best smallmouth is 7lb-6oz caught in Pa waters of Lake Erie.

 

Dwight getting it DONE!

caught these 2 about 10 minutes apart. didnt weigh or bump either. first one im guess 5.5 to 6 

next one id say is pushing 7

My 2 pbs from this year. Top one 8.64lbs bottom 8.39 lbs both caught on deep cranks.

I've caught numerous bass from 24" to 27" long. Not a clue to what they have weighed. All my big fish have been caught at night wading or in a float tube. Minimal gear. No camera, phone, scales etc. Marked them off on the rod and measured it later. All released within a minute of landing. They were all quite a few years ago. I only fish from boats now and all the lakes around me are only open sunrise to sunset unfortunately. Fishing daytime only has definitely reduced the quantity and quality of fish I catch. 

On 2/12/2016 at 3:31 AM, Mosster47 said:

We weighed her on two scales. The cheap one said 8-6, the more expensive one said 8-1. Caught her with that spinnerbait on the deck by my feet. 

Come on now man....it is awesome that you were happy to catch it, but don't throw out the two scales story. If that bass is 8 pounds, then your spinnerbait is 6 pounds. Look at some of the pictures here of 6 pounders and compare.

My PB is 10lb 2oz from Mehico. My biggest from my home state of Kansas however, is 7lb 14oz.

I've caught 3 smallmouth that went 5lbs on the nose, this is the most recent one.

I came very close to making it a 4 way tie this past October.

 

I don't have an actual recorded PB as I don't honestly care all that much and didn't have a scale for a very long time but this is probably the biggest I have a pic of.  Tried to lay it next to my rod for comparison but couldn't get the camera far enough away for an accurate pic.  Not bad for a Mass pond bass tho!  

On February 20, 2016 at 10:51 PM, shimmy said:

Come on now man....it is awesome that you were happy to catch it, but don't throw out the two scales story. If that bass is 8 pounds, then your spinnerbait is 6 pounds. Look at some of the pictures here of 6 pounders and compare.

That picture was taken farther away from the fish than the pictures most people take. You don't know that his fish is not 8 lbs. What was your agenda in posting this?

 

Here's my PB. 10 lbs. 1 oz. Caught on December 20th, 2014 on Pickwick Lake.

19 hours ago, JGBassinAL said:

That picture was taken farther away from the fish than the pictures most people take. You don't know that his fish is not 8 lbs. What was your agenda in posting this?

Agenda? Didn't think there was any ambiguity to my comment. People are here to post their personal best. It is a fishing website, but no need to tell fish stories on a PB thread. You are free to disagree with me and that is fine. For the guys who enjoy chasing bigger fish where weight matters, then it seems silly to post inaccurate weights. For those who don't care about the weight of fish, then there is no worry of posting a fish weight that may be inaccurate. Both perspective are neither intrinsically better than the other. Maybe we could change the title to "What You Think You Want Your PB To Be." 

Side note, not even a full arm extension and up-close picture will make that bass 8 pounds. And while I don't need your approval, i must say your fish looks every bit of 10 pounds. You could hold that thing behind your head and it would still look big. 

54 minutes ago, shimmy said:

Agenda? Didn't think there was any ambiguity to my comment. People are here to post their personal best. It is a fishing website, but no need to tell fish stories on a PB thread. You are free to disagree with me and that is fine. For the guys who enjoy chasing bigger fish where weight matters, then it seems silly to post inaccurate weights. For those who don't care about the weight of fish, then there is no worry of posting a fish weight that may be inaccurate. Both perspective are neither intrinsically better than the other. Maybe we could change the title to "What You Think You Want Your PB To Be." 

Side note, not even a full arm extension and up-close picture will make that bass 8 pounds. And while I don't need your approval, i must say your fish looks every bit of 10 pounds. You could hold that thing behind your head and it would still look big. 

 

21 hours ago, JGBassinAL said:

That picture was taken farther away from the fish than the pictures most people take. You don't know that his fish is not 8 lbs. What was your agenda in posting this?

What ever the fish weight was of the bass JG caught it was his personal best. If it was his PB then great, no need to take away from the big bass that JG caught. 

great fish, gentleman. Some real beauties in this thread!