Epic day today out at the hidden spot here in arizona. Biggest bag of my life 30lb 10oz. My previous PB bag was also out here. 27.5lbs. Finally beat that. Epic day. 11 bass caught. Strike king 6xd in chilli craw and an unknown brand my buddy had in tilapia were the tickets today. The picture with my buddy holding the small bass and the big one was one of our serious culls lol. We ended up culling a 5lbr out too later. 

 

 

Congrats!!

Awesome chunky bass!

 

 

                                         WOW!

 

                                           

Sweet ~ Way to start out the new year !

 

What a bag of ridiculously stout pre-spawn Fatties. 

 

That place is seriously fertile.

 

Hope there's some video of that action . . .

Congrats

 

A-Jay

Good golly! Those are HUGE! Congrats!

Awesomeness! Congratulations on a new PB bag o bass! Definitely some big uns! My dad and stepmom live in Gilbert, AZ. Are you anywhere near there? I'm hoping to get to go visit them out there some day and do some bass fishing. Been a long time since I've fished with my dad.

Good good man! Freakin awesome! 

Cool pics. I know exactly where you’re at and your secret is safe with me partna. That place is inundated with Tilapia.  I’d love to join ya someday. PM me if you’re interested. 

 

-Fellow AZ angler. 

Amazing!  Those are some extraordinary fish!  I am curious what is the main forage that these bass are chowing down on.  

 

The post above mine arrived while I was typing.  I think maybe I have my answer on the forage?

Wow! You got some hawgs right there!

12 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Sweet ~ Way to start out the new year !

 

What a bag of ridiculously stout pre-spawn Fatties. 

 

That place is seriously fertile.

 

Hope there's some video of that action . . .

Congrats

 

A-Jay

Haha thanks man. I love this place insane baitfish numbers and every fish pretty much is 5lbs or bigger. Got a couple videos I'll put something together. My buddy's that he got from the back were not on film unfortunately cuz my old navigation port mount broke and my aquastick hasn't came in yet. 

6 hours ago, senile1 said:

Amazing!  Those are some extraordinary fish!  I am curious what is the main forage that these bass are chowing down on.  

 

The post above mine arrived while I was typing.  I think maybe I have my answer on the forage?

Tilapia and shad are the main forage.  Millions of tilapia in here from 4" to 4lbs. That's the big bass stuff right there. From what I read if there is good tilapia base in a lake then the bass usually grow big and here it's rare to find a fish under 5lbs. 

12 hours ago, MichaelCopeland said:

Awesomeness! Congratulations on a new PB bag o bass! Definitely some big uns! My dad and stepmom live in Gilbert, AZ. Are you anywhere near there? I'm hoping to get to go visit them out there some day and do some bass fishing. Been a long time since I've fished with my dad.

I'm in the West valley that is West side 

It looks like those bass feed on footballs!!  Great bag, congrats!!

 

I broke 30 lbs last week to, but I had to catch 23 bass to do it...

33 minutes ago, OCdockskipper said:

It looks like those bass feed on footballs!!  Great bag, congrats!!

 

I broke 30 lbs last week to, but I had to catch 23 bass to do it...

Heck, some days I have to catch 40 to break 30 pounds

That's a freakin' herd of cows! Nice!

Crazy fat fish. Do they fight very well? Most of them look so fat that they seem like they'd have a difficult time even swimming. 

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Crazy fat fish. Do they fight very well? Most of them look so fat that they seem like they'd have a difficult time even swimming. 

Haha no not really. They get to surface and barely splash. 

7 hours ago, brgbassmaster said:

Haha no not really. They get to surface and barely splash. 

That's terrible.  It sounds like you need to go back to 1 - 3 lb fish that have some fight in them.  Right?  

2 hours ago, senile1 said:

That's terrible.  It sounds like you need to go back to 1 - 3 lb fish that have some fight in them.  Right?  

Lol na I'll sacrifice. The 8+lbrs fight once water gets into the 60s. Right now water temp is "cold" according to the arizonians at 58F. They talk about slowing down while I'm burning 6xds ??

Those. Fish. Look. Absurd.

1 hour ago, corn-on-the-rob said:

Those. Fish. Look. Absurd.

The crazy thing is they all look like this here!