Strike King Silent Red Eye Shad for me . Caught the fish about 20 foot deep on a point ,  hopping the lure like a worm . I dont know the weight . It had the length of an 8 lber and the girth of a 5 .

 

 

Gambler Big Ez swimbait. stick marsh 9-7 .just random casting through submerged trees.

Whopper plopper 90 size. Caught one a little bigger but it says the file is too big to upload and did not have a scale on me to verify. It was the same whopper plopper though.

 

Rage Space Monkey, can't remember which color. 1/4oz jig rig in about 18" of water. 

A MB vision 110, 6.74lbs

Black trick worm

I caught several 6+ lbers this year. 

 

A couple on a SK KVD 200 size suspending jerkbait, and a couple more on a swim jig.

 

What was odd about the 2016 season for me...........is I usually catch my biggest fish in mid-to latr April, early to mid August, and late Sept.- mid October.

 

This year it was early May, and mid July.

 

berkley power worm

Crock-o-Gator Head Knocker buzzbait.

Pretty sure it was on a Yamamoto Shad Shape Worm

on a drop shot.

Sadly, I never broke 5# last year.  Caught several 4#'s on old triangular style 6" black Power Lizards.

Scum frog and a Rage Cut R...Love Those things

 

 

 

 

Mike 

Booyah pad crasher

Mann's Baby 1 Minus that was 8.13. Caught it on July 5th on a pretty hot day.

An old, cheap BPS Uncle Buck's white double willow, hammered nickel blade spinnerbait...on the trailer hook.

I also didn't break the 5lb mark last year. This one was 4 something on a GP t-mac finesse worm on 1/4 ounce shaky head. About 15ft of water

4" jointed swimbait from LTB. Little over 6lb. LMB out of Pat Mayse Lake.

just under 22 inches and on Excalibur 1/4 oz Zell-Pop-R in a bluegill finish.

6" Zoom Dead Ringer in Green Pumpkin with part of the tail dipped in chartreuse dye.  Texas Rigged with a 1/0 Mister Twister keeper hook and and a 1/8 oz tungsten weight on 8lb Nanofil with an 8lb P-line fluorocarbon leader.  Weighed 8 lbs, 4 oz.

Zoom horn frog. Throwing it to the bank then twitching and letting it die about 2ft off the bank. Caught several good ones that day.

4 pounder on a black buzz bait.

I didn't break the 5 pound mark this year, and only broke the 4 pound mark once.  That bass was on a Chrome/blue back Cordell Super Spot. 

 

 

5.84 on a june bug Zoom U tail worm in late June

Reins bubbling shaker 4" green pumpkin fished on a dropshot is what got me all my biggest fish this year. Biggest went 6lb and I lost a couple more good ones. 

Sadly, I don't know the weight of her. The length was 22.5 inches and FAT! Obviously take it with a grain of salt seeing as there's no scales to back it up. 

 

Caught on a Cabin Creek Salty Critter Jr tube (2.5") in watermelon blue flake.