My best one was this 8lber on blades. 

Best smallie in the boat was just over 5, on a drop shot Berkley gulp 4” minnow, smelt colour

Best largemouth also just above 5, green pumpkin Berkley power thief flipped into a small cabbage bed. 

On 1/19/2018 at 7:59 PM, Dorado said:

After reading all these replies, I need to start throwing a jerk bait this year. 

These two from last season (just shy of 12 lbs) can totally vouch for that as a solid plan ~ 

A-Jay

7.5lber on a 4 inch swimbait.

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

These two (just shy of 12 lbs) can totally vouch for that as a solid plan ~ 

A-Jay

Sweet mother of

10th (give or take) EVER cast with whoper plopper 90.

Only 5.5lb, but it was (is?) my PB.  

8.6 pounds , caught on a 4 inch red w/black watermelon GY senko.

Hard jerkbait, just like last year, and the year before that.

7.5 on a 1/2 oz. Chrome/black rattletrap and an 8 on a 5" paddletail

10.5 inch excite baits maximus worm. 6/0 ewg 3/8 ounce weight. 7lbs 2oz. My pb...for now

Dang! My biggest largemouth was 4.2 pounds (according to my cheap-o scale). Looks more like it would have been bait for some of the slobs a few of you tied into. Caught it on a six-inch BioSpawn Exostick (black/blue). Got my personal best smallmouth on a twelve-inch Zoom Ol’ Monster (South Africa) but it doesn’t count since I was fishing for largemouths and it (a.) wasn’t supposed to be in warm shallow water and (b.) had no business hitting a worm that big. (Not that I’m complaining.)

My two biggest was 2 4.5 lb small mouth.  1 one a super fluke the other on a Berkley Powebait two inch minnow.  Both were white.  My biggest Largie was just over 3lbs, caught with a Super fluke.

Swim jig, a tad under 8.

Didn't weigh it but all my bass this year were caught on BPS brand swimtail worms.

7" Junebug Fat Max ribbon tail. 

Dont remember the exact weight but her mouth looked bigger than a toilet bowl!!??

 

 

 

Mike

Biggest Smallie of 2017 5.18lb on a @Siebert Outdoors Custom Chatter Bait! 

5.86 lb LMB and was caught on a 3/8 oz White Terminator Pro Series Jig with a Bone White Silver Gene Larew Hammer Craw as the trailer. Swimming it

Storm Arashi (blue back herring) rattling flat 7 caught me this one which was just over 6lbs if I remember right. Long and lean she was.

R.I. Skinny Dipper on the color Bullfrog. Sadly it was only 4+. 

Didn't get on the big fish at all last year!

The one on the bank was on a Speed Worm!

Didn't bother weighting em ?

My grandson Aiden is always on big fish but he does have a pretty good guide!

 

Baby Brush Hog Watermelon Neon 

8.7lb fish on a bagley balsa spintail.

My largest bass for 2017 was caught on a redeye shad, but it was only 14  . . . . . . . . .  INCHES (LOL).  I don't have much spare time to go fishing these days.

I had a down year for big fish.

 

Only two over 6lbs.... one caught on a beaver flipped under a dock, one on a swim jig.

 

Only a dozen and a half or so 5lb er's, biggest was a 5-13 caught on a jig when I took bclark7b out on our yearly spring trip.

 

ZERO 5lb + fish in tournaments this past season. Biggest was an upper 4lber.

 

ZERO 5lb + smallmouth this past season, but lots of mid to upper 4's.

 

That's not humble bragging....it really is/was a lower than average year for me for big ones. I am used to getting at least 1/2 dozen 6+'s, more 5+'s than I can remember , and getting at least one 5+ every few tournaments with largemouth. With smallmouth I always seem to get a handful of 5+'s every year, but not this past season for some reason.

Biggest LMB of 2017: 5.26lbs buzzbait (snooze alarm)

WA State

 

Biggest SMB of 2017: 4.91lbs

Crankbait in 10 f.o.w, color: perch pattern

Idaho

My biggest smallie wasn't that big but a decent 17 inches. I caught it on a megabass  sexy french pearl popmax.