5lbr on a BPS black Kermi.

6lb lm on a Pointer 100sp

5.25# on a 3/8oz Stanley Spinnerbait, Gold/Silver double-willow, "Golden Bream" skirt

 

 

 

Idk this guy might’ve been bigger but I didn’t weigh him... Smalljaws on a DT10. 

5lb largemouth on a Savage Gear Lily Ninja frog

A 4lb LM with a 1/15oz ned rigged Zman TRD Mudbug Tubez.

KVD 2.5 Squarebill.  Chartreuse black back.  4.5 lber was the biggest I got last season.

A weightless trick worm skipped waaay deep under a dock.

The bass in my profile picture came on a white strike king buzz bait this past fall.  Of course it was while I was pre-fishing for a tournament.  Still a blast to catch though. 

Caught my personal best largemouth of 4-14 last May on a black and blue Chatterbait.  I also caught my personal best smallmouth of 4-8 last September on the same lure.  Love that lure.

54 minutes ago, Justin62882 said:

I caught alot of nice fish on that chatterbait. My friend for his personal best last February on that black and blue. 9 pounds 11 ounces. Also seen him catch a 4,5,and 6 pounder in 5 casts. Same lure. Trailer of choice for both of us for that chatter is a zoom black lizard blue tail with head torn off. 

I would've never thought to use that modified lizard as a chatterbait trailer. Style points right there!

16 minutes ago, Justin62882 said:

My 2nd favorite chatterbait/lizard combo is a chartreuse and white charter with a cotton candy lizard. I actually just ordered more cotton candy lizards about 2 hours ago. I only use them for this application. I've never tried them another way I may need to but i caught alot of bass that way last year. Bigger bass came from the black blue. More bites came from this application though.

I fish a lot at night, so I can see the black blue combo being lethal. Maybe my next PB will come from this 'bump in the night'. Great tips, brother thanks! I would've NEVER thought of that for a trailer. 

1 hour ago, Justin62882 said:

I caught alot of nice fish on that chatterbait. My friend for his personal best last February on that black and blue. 9 pounds 11 ounces. Also seen him catch a 4,5,and 6 pounder in 5 casts. Same lure. Trailer of choice for both of us for that chatter is a zoom black lizard blue tail with head torn off. 

I used the Yamamoto Senko Swim bait as a trailer.  Worked great but the don't last long at all.  I went through a lot of bags last year.  I'm going to try Z-Man's this year with their ElaZtech plastic.

Just now, Justin62882 said:

I have a couple bags. I haven't xaught a fish on them. I haven't given them there fair shake though but for w.e reason for me the zman ones I got dont stay on my chatterbait that well.

Did you get the DieZel ones?  I have never used them so I don't know how well they'll work.  I just know the plastic lasts longer.

Caught my largest on a black/red football jig I picked out of the $1 bin paired with a watermelon/red flake beaver craw. Middle of the day in the middle of summer.

 

Pitched off the bank to underneath an overhanging tree in maybe a foot and a half of water and she violently choked it down just as I was about to reel it in. 

 

Biggest smallmouth ate a chartruese/Black back KVD 1.5. 

 

I dug it into a grass patch and ripped it out.

The biggest one I hauled in last year was only 4lbs caught on a red bug 10.5" Ol' Monster. I sure do miss that little pond by the house I used to live in down in Pineville. Will be doing my very best to top that this year. Who knows, maybe tomorrow it will happen or at least my first bass of the year. I'm going to Wallace Lake in the morning to try out some of my new baits/lures  my awesome friend @A-Jay sent me. ?

Cinnamon 5 Inch Senko 

6 pounder on a white wacky stick worm.

2017 was not much of a year for me. Best bass was on a KVD 1.5 a round 3 pounds. My sons best bass was 4.8 on a storm swim bait.

All of my big bass both large and small were caught on sieberts jigs with rage craw trailers. It was my wifes first year bass fishing. She caught some really nice bass using them also. 

A brand of Popper that shall remain nameless caught my biggest fish. It was a shade over 5. That and a senko caught more bigger fish than anything else in 2017. Spring and fall were really good to me last year but the dog days of summer put a whoopin on me like I’ve never had before. I’m ready for the prespawn in 2018!

Biggest Largemouth was a bit over 20 inches on a Strike King 6XD in Black Back/Chartreuse.

Biggest Smallmouth was 18 inches on a Chrome (BS) Zerek Sabre Dance 85.

7 lbs on a Strike King 6XD in natural shad.  Next largest was 6 1/2 on the same bait.  One in April the other in July.

4.18 pound largemouth on a quarter ounce speed craw on a Dobyns savvy 766 with 50 pound braid. 

A 4" white senko of all lures. Caught this 7.17, my new personal best.