3/8 Jackhammers with a 4.5" LFT Magic Shad.

6lb (first fish of the year)

 

4" Senko won me over big this year.

November first caught my PB of 5.18 on a white cavitron buzzbait with a Keitech Fat impact. Only bass I've ever caught over 3.5.

I think I only caught 2 that I weighed that were over 5 lbs this year... which got me to thinkin I didn’t get out much this year.

 

The first came on a 3/8 oz Siebert Dredge Dock Rocker in Blue Craw Color with an Okeechobee Blue Rage Bug as a trailer. This was in the prespawn period.

 

The second one came on a 1.5 KVD Squarebill in bluegill color in early July.

In 2018 I had at least a dozen over 5 lbs. Geez I gotta make a resolution to get out more!

 

I never touched the 4lb mark this year, but my largest bass were all caught on jig and craws. 

Got a few this year:

5-5 moss mouse 

5-12 jig 

5-4 bps double plopper 

5-7 double buzzbait

5-5,5-7,5-8,6-10 double wide beaver

5-9 spinnerbait 

I caught a lot of 4.5-4.75 pound fish this year, which isn't a bad thing I guess.

 

For fish over 5 though, I caught them on;

 

Yo-Zuri 3DR Vibe, Real Glass Minnow

SK Tungsten 2Tap, Rayburn Red (BB of the year)

Yo-Zuri 3DS Minnow 2.75", Holographic Ghost Shad

Duo Realis Rozante 77, Neo Pearl (PB smallmouth)

Homemade flipping jig/Christie Craw, black and blue

Black Market Balsa squarebill, chart/black back

Black Canoe Lure Co. squarebill, River minnow

 

I caught a lot of fish over 4 on homemade jigs and bladed jigs, as well as a Big Bite Baits YoMomma, so those would be my picks for consistent quality fish.

 

All my fish over 5lbs came on SK red eye shad 3/4oz, vision 110+2, yellow magic popper, owner flashy swimmer with kalin grub, gan craft 178 glider, deps buzz jet & Seibert swim jig with boot tail trailer. 

17 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

I never touched the 4lb mark this year, but my largest bass were all caught on jig and craws. 

Jigs were consistently bringing my biggest fish (and biggest is relative, I think I had 1 that even got close to 4lbs).

MS Slammer 9" - 6-6,6-1,5-8

MS Slammer 7"- 6-4

CL8 Baby Possum - 5-0

WSB 125 rat - 5-0

Two more at 4-15 that came close on the MS Slammer.

All caught fishing at night.

 

Caught four 5+ this year. Two came on chatterbaits, one on a Zoom finesse worm, and the most recent on a Ned rig. Caught many 4's, several coming on a Fat Ika, others on a number of things, my favorite being an Azuma Wake-Z wake bait.

Megabass Deep-X Leviathan caught several big bass for this year.  I dread the day I loose one of these things. 

I live in Canada, so 5 lb bass aren't super common. I caught two this year, though one was in the USA (North Carolina). 

 

The USA LMB bass was caught on a white tube. 

 

The Canada LMB was caught on a River2Sea White Spinnerbait, on a narrow stretch of river. 

texas rigged worms and lizards 

I caught 4 over 5lbs. 

Megabass vision 110 (my PB)

Whopper plopper 130 Loon

KGB ChadShad 

5 inch hand pour swimbait (homemade)

Fished a lot of new water and had a slower year but these were my most consistent lures in order:

 

Swim jig - BG color skirt w/ orange head.  Keitech BG trailer

Chatterbait - GP or white with matching Zako or Rage Craw trailer

Stanley 3/8 oz double willow spinnerbait.  White/chart with gold and silver blades 

3/8 oz flipping jig - GP with Menace trailer

Fluke - White or smoke grey

Various squarebills

On 12/31/2019 at 12:54 AM, txchaser said:

Sprinker Frog. Not even a blowup. Put on a regular frog, game on

That's interesting, it was the opposite for me! Had a lot of fun with the Sprinker this year.

 

As far as 5+ers go, I caught a few.

One on a 4.8" Pro Swimmer rigged on a Flashy Swimmer, one on a B5 line thru Swimbait, and one on the S waver 168!

Just one.  Caught my 5.5# LMB on a 3/8 oz SK swim jig with a 3.75" rage swimmer in ghost shad.

Used a white Super Fluke T-rigged with a maybe 1/4 bullet weight unpegged, fished maybe a few feet deep. 5 1/4 lb

 

Other one slightly lighter was a crank bait, I forget the color. Think it was shad, but I catch them with all colors at this spot.

 

 

Zoom Swimming Super Fluke on a 3/0, 1/4 ounce belly weighted swimbait hook.  Twas a lovely largey. 

 

I don't know how I actually got her in since she was just snagged by the skin on the outside of the lower jaw.  Cray cray

I caught a few over 5 this year

1 on a spinnerbait

2 on a jerkbait

4 on either a swim jig/paddletail or a pitchin jig Rage Bug

Hollow bodied frog

Fluke

Jig

Crankbait

 

39 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

Hollow bodied frog

Fluke

Jig

Crankbait

 

There’s nothing better than throwing a hollow bodied frog to the thickest, nastiest slop on the lake. 
 

I have grown quite fond of pitching jigs this past year too. I look forward to doing more of that this year too. 

Just now, 12poundbass said:

There’s nothing better than throwing a hollow bodied frog to the thickest, nastiest slop on the lake. 
 

I have grown quite fond of pitching jigs this past year too. I look forward to doing more of that this year too. 

I always have a frog tied on and have caught some big bass in open water with them too.  The jig thing I just got into this year really and it has been very good to me.  Definitely looking to refine that part of my fishing this next season.

18 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

I always have a frog tied on and have caught some big bass in open water with them too.  The jig thing I just got into this year really and it has been very good to me.  Definitely looking to refine that part of my fishing this next season.

I've caught a few bass when I continue to walk the frog back to the kayak AFTER it gets through the slop.  I've tried to convince my buddies to do the same as I watch them get out of the slop and just crank it the rest of the way as fast as they can. 

I have done particularly well fishing through stickups and any type of wood cover.  I usually walk it a few times and let it sit for a while then repeat.