Z-Man Original Chatterbait black and blue with a black and blue bio spawn plasma tail as a trailer.

 

-Payton 

1/2 once Nichols spinnerbait, white and chartreuse, double silver willow blades. Slow rolled in front of a dam on a large pond. Still my PB at just over 7 lbs. I caught many 4+ pound largemouth this year which I feel is a strong showing for southern Michigan. Almost all the others came on hollow body frogs or jigs, one 5 lb 11 oz fish came on a One Knocker Spook (second pic). I am very pleased with the season I had and I'm eagerly awaiting gettin' at 'em this coming season. 

I caught a good number of 2+ lb bass this year (yeah, bad year for big ones) but the most memorable 2 or 3 of those were caught on a Storm Chug Bug - Bleeding Shad color, while fishing a bridge on Table Rock Lake.  They'd hardly let my popper hit the water before they were jumping out at it.  We had to have caught 15 or 20 bass in half an hour.  Great time.

Two 8.5lbers. One on a SK 10XD crankbait & one on a LC SKT Mag 105 crankbait.

 

 

9.2 on a strike king 10xd

Siebert Punch Skirt in brown with a 1 oz weight, and ZMAN Turbo Craw Trailer as I was about to lift it out of the water to make another pitch....Maybe 8.5 lbs. Probably 7.5 lbs in reality...Can't tell anymore, I just know they are not 10.

Largest largemouth  4" Senko watermelon with black/red flakes

Largest smallmouth  Shaky head 4" ElaZtech Strike King or Zman, on a Vike 3/16th ounce tungsten shakey jig head

Here's another of my favorite baits.  You don't read much about it, but it will catch the heck out of largemouth and smallmouth bass.

It's a Lunker City, 2 3/4" Grubster  Clear water color.  I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round jig head with a 2/0 or 3/0 hook. 

The downside is that the tail is feeble, but that's part of what gives it its action.

The upside is they are comparatively cheap.

 

1/2 oz Siebert Outdoors Dredge Football Jig in Black and Blue with a Black and Blue Rage Bug trailer

Berkley Powerbait Chigger Craw, black/blue fleck. 6.3#. I caught several over 5 on this bait. I caught a couple over 5 on Rat L Trap and Chug 'N Spook, Jr.

I caught my biggest bass of the year on a BPS Stik-O. It was 4 pounds.

A nose hooked Super Fluke Jr. was eaten by a 6 lb. 14 oz. largemouth:

I caught a 7 10oz on a 8XD, which is hilarious because I bought 5 8XDs and 2 10xds to fish Kentucky lake in the middle of summer yet caught the 7.10 on a 18ft deep roadbed in the middle of Iowa and a never sniffed a bass on it on Kentucky. 

15 hours ago, Fishing Rhino said:

Largest largemouth  4" Senko watermelon with black/red flakes

Largest smallmouth  Shaky head 4" ElaZtech Strike King or Zman, on a Vike 3/16th ounce tungsten shakey jig head

Here's another of my favorite baits.  You don't read much about it, but it will catch the heck out of largemouth and smallmouth bass.

It's a Lunker City, 2 3/4" Grubster  Clear water color.  I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round jig head with a 2/0 or 3/0 hook. 

The downside is that the tail is feeble, but that's part of what gives it its action.

The upside is they are comparatively cheap.

 

I like the look of the bait. 

Strike King KVD 8.0 Magnum Squarebill in Sexy Shad

Largest bass of the year I caught last year was just over 6 pounds on a war eagle spinner-bait half oz.  Caught him on an edge in about 10ft of water,  Second largest was just under 6 and caught him on a slider head with a 3 inch vibragrub on it.  I caught him right off a beach in some isolated lily pads. 

1/2 oz. black/grey football jig with PB&J twin tail grub trailer. Ripped it out of a deep weedline and the big girl was sitting right outside of it waiting.

I caught this bass on a zoom baby brush hog.

1 minute ago, Lucas Julian said:

I caught this bass on a zoom baby brush hog.

Thats a sow .

My largest fish this past summer was on a X-rap Pop. I'm normally a big Chug Bug zealot, but I decided to toss the X-Rap pop a bunch more this summer and it did just as well as the ole chug bug. 

7-13 Largemouth in Maine on a 1/2 ounce chompers brush jig with a rage craw trailer

7lb 6oz caught on a t/rigged

Netbait B Bug in watermelon crawfish/standard size.

 

1/4oz eagle claw tube jig and no name black tube. Bit a few feet from the bank. 

Evergreen jt-95

A custom painted DT10 - Largemouth 5.1 pounds