...Dovetailing off another thread - what time of day did you catch your personal best - or is there a general time frame you tend to catch the bigger ones?

PB Brown bass (7-5) came right before sunrise.

PB Green Bass (11-11) came right before sunset.

Go figure.

A-Jay

 

The time was Noon, I saw a bass chasing bait against a limestone wall along an everglades canal.  That fish was 11.4 and it was over twenty years ago.  I used a weightless zoom fluke thrown into the mix, and the fight was on.  It had been a reasonable slow day all morning, with bluebird sky, and no wind.  You just never know when it will happen!?

Many of my top bass were caught between 10 and 2, including my NY PB 7-2.

4:00 pm, no clouds or wind, about 80 degrees, in 3 feet of water..........

 

8 lbs 3 oz.  

Early evening, around 5:30. Partly cloudy, was along the edge of a weed-bed in 6' of water...it probably darted out from the weeds to grab my lure. 4# 12oz

2 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Many of my top bass were caught between 10 and 2, including my NY PB 7-2.

1:30 to be exact.

 

I'm not sure if the mid day concentration is because it's a big bass thing, or if it's just that by then, I have things figured out.

My top 10 were all caught after 2 pm. Apparently I’m a terrible morning fisherman 

February 3rd 2007 right at daylight 12 lb 8 oz on a Rat-L-Trap 

I wish I could remember!!! Haha. I know I caught an 8 lb bass first thing in the morning once. But I have caught two more the same size and I don't remember a time on either. I caught what is probably my PB smallmouth about 930 am a month ago

My 2 best were both 8lbs. One I caught off bed in a pond, in March about 30 minutes before dark. 

 

The other I caught about 30 minutes before dark in July off a brush pile on a lake near me. However I catch most of my bigger bass at night time between June and September. I love night fishing, a Texas rigged black worm and ANYONE can catch em at night 

These are all interesting responses because I’m typically a very early riser to be on the water before other fisherman.  But seems like just as many PB’s have come mid-day or other times. 

 

Moral of of the story - I need to fish more

About 4PM on a hot day in June but in a creek mouth in the shade.

One PM during my lunch break with two colleagues right next to me.  7-4 on my profile picture.

Everything over 6 was between 11AM and 4PM....crazy.  However,  the one that got away was almost 11PM

A little after 8 AM October 19th 2018. I dropped my daughter off at school about 7:45 and headed right over to the spot. Put the kayak in and paddled straight to this spot because I had a good feeling about it. I caught her on the first cast at that spot. Air temp was 38 degrees, but water temp was much higher. It's the fish in my avatar.

7 a.m.

 

My next 5 biggest have been around 11 or noon. 

Around noon.

PB came a few minutes before noon. I can remember the time because out emergency sirens go off as a test at 12noon every month.

The 5 giant bass I list were all caught in the AM between sunrise and 9:30 on jigs.

Tom

2 minutes ago, WRB said:

The 5 giant bass I list were all caught in the AM between sunrise and 9:30. 

Tom

18 pounders are probably already napping by 10....... Since they do whatever the heck they want!!!

I fished a lot of very skinny water with heavy shallow cover last year and my best we’re caught mid day....but typically and historically this isn’t the case. I usually catch my better fish after 5pm

1:00 in the afternoon

PB Smallmouth Bass was caught at 9:40am

 

PB Largemouth was sometime around 11am That's my best guess as it was a long time ago.