Last winter when I was 20. 

8 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Last winter when I was 20. 

Awesome Bass and Love that GREAT PB Smile ~ ! 

There's nothing else like it

A-Jay

@LrgmouthShad, can’t help but notice you caught it off the millennium falcon

14 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@LrgmouthShad, can’t help but notice you caught it off the millennium falcon

Forgive me, don’t understand what you’re trying to say lol. I have no idea what is on the fish finder there. Possibly my fight with the fish as the horizontal photo was taken very quickly

 

I was about 18 when I caught my first Virginia bass over 8 pounds on a black Texas rigged worm. That fish remained my PB bass for many, many years ~ (hard to catch a bass while living in Alaska for over thirty years. Moving back to Virginia 17 years ago at the age of 56,  I resumed bass fishing which I had missed very much. When I was about 65 my buddy and I were fishing on a cold January morning on a medium sized reservoir. We started trolling deep diving cranks, heavy spinner baits and swimbaits through LARGE schools of tightly packed shad. The water temp was 42 degrees. My first bass that morning a 8 pounder caught on a spinner bait , followed by a 7 pounder also on the spinner bait, another 7#, then a 5#, lost another big one then landed a 4#. My spinner-bait got hung-up and I lost it so I tied on a boot-tail six inch swimbait in the  'hitch" color and started casting because we were on the bass. First cast a bass nailed it. I could feel the big head shakes and nothing really moved when I pulled on her, just the Fenwick rod bending. Slowly she came to the surface and got her head out of the water shaking it with mouth open. It looked to me like the top half of a dumpster had just surfaced. She was cold and a little sluggish. My buddy netted her and she weighed 10.3. Took a photo and released her. So in the time-span of about a half hour I caught five bass that weighed a tad over 34 pounds. A good day indeed.  My buddy caught some nice bass as well including an 8 pounder.

 

 

 

               

56 minutes ago, Bubba 460 said:

 

I was about 18 when I caught my first Virginia bass over 8 pounds on a black Texas rigged worm. That fish remained my PB bass for many, many years ~ (hard to catch a bass while living in Alaska for over thirty years. Moving back to Virginia 17 years ago at the age of 56,  I resumed bass fishing which I had missed very much. When I was about 65 my buddy and I were fishing on a cold January morning on a medium sized reservoir. We started trolling deep diving cranks, heavy spinner baits and swimbaits through LARGE schools of tightly packed shad. The water temp was 42 degrees. My first bass that morning a 8 pounder caught on a spinner bait , followed by a 7 pounder also on the spinner bait, another 7#, then a 5#, lost another big one then landed a 4#. My spinner-bait got hung-up and I lost it so I tied on a boot-tail six inch swimbait in the  'hitch" color and started casting because we were on the bass. First cast a bass nailed it. I could feel the big head shakes and nothing really moved when I pulled on her, just the Fenwick rod bending. Slowly she came to the surface and got her head out of the water shaking it with mouth open. It looked to me like the top half of a dumpster had just surfaced. She was cold and a little sluggish. My buddy netted her and she weighed 10.3. Took a photo and released her. So in the time-span of about a half hour I caught five bass that weighed a tad over 34 pounds. A good day indeed.  My buddy caught some nice bass as well including an 8 pounder.

 

 

Spinnerbait bites with surface temp of 42? Don’t give me an excuse to throw them nearly all winter again ?. That’s an awesome bass though

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Forgive me, don’t understand what you’re trying to say lol. I have no idea what is on the fish finder there. Possibly my fight with the fish as the horizontal photo was taken very quickly

Must have been! Pretty wild looking 

15 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Spinnerbait bites with surface temp of 42? Don’t give me an excuse to throw them nearly all winter again ?. That’s an awesome bass though

 

A spinner bait is just a mini umbrella rig.

I was 15 when I caught mine, and I still am 15! 

6 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Forgive me, don’t understand what you’re trying to say lol. I have no idea what is on the fish finder there. Possibly my fight with the fish as the horizontal photo was taken very quickly

It was an original Star Wars reference.

I was 18 when I caught my largemouth PB on a trip to Lake Comendero, MX. The trip was my high school graduation present. 

 

I was 33 when I caught my smallmouth PB, a couple weekends after my birthday. 

I was 12, it was a 7.5lbs striper on my dad's friend's boat. 30 now and mostly largemouth fishing on the shore when I have time. Haven't gotten much above 5lbs since. 

My next smallmouth will also be my new PB smallmouth.

Caught a 6-0 @ Lake Castaic in a tournament in 1980, 40 years old.  Next was a 6-10 @ Lake Lanier about 6 years ago on a worm.  Largest was in 2020, 6-11 in FL on a buzzbait, 79 years old.

Caught the 11.7 when I was 58, I’m 65 now.cold and windy on March 22 as I remember ,junebug Zoom lizard4 inch on a shakeyhead.200 acre lake near my house.i’ve got a pic of it on my old flip phone.the fish in my avatar is a 7 pounder caught at Clark Hill 2 years ago on a speed worm

In July 1977 I was 14 and landed a largemouth of 5.5 pounds on a spinner bait in Eastern WA.  That was my PB until June of 2020 when at 57 years old with another spinnerbait, I  landed the bass in the first two photos. I didn't have a scale, but I'm quite sure this fish broke my old PB by a pound or two.  I bought a scale, and in July of 2020 I landed one that weighed 10.3 pounds.  I tied that one with  another 10.3 in April of  2021 which is pictured in third photo.  I think the fish in the first two pictures was my PB but without a scale I have to go with 10.3 as my best.

I was 25 and she went an oz over 11lb! Crazy story about that one too. I was just getting into dedicated flipping/punching and was uninformed. I was out one day late Dec targeting thick isolated cane patches with a 7ft MH/F rod, 20lb fluoro(way underpowered for FL) and a Gammy EWG hook. I pitch into a clump and immediately get hammered. I reel down and set the hook hard and the rod snaps about 3ft down from the tip! I still had the fish on for a couple seconds then it was gone. My hook was also almost completely straightened out! I didn't get the fish and was obviously upset. 

That night I load up and drive 2hrs to the nearest BPS to me. I bought a Shimano Crucial flipping stick, 65lb braid and superline EWG hooks. The next Sunday I go back to the exact spot and landed my PB. I'll never know for sure if it was the same fish that broke my rod the first time but I really do think it is.

My avatar is my PB at 6.6 lb.  Caught in 2015 and I was 41.  

I’m 40 and caught my current PB three weeks ago. Didn’t have a scale with me but it was a solid 4 pounds I think. Many here probably remember as it was recent and I asked the forum to help me guess the weight. 

I was 12 and caught a 10.3 on a texas rigged zoom centipede in Watermelon Red. I was fishing in front of a dock on lake Tyler in 1994. I am 39 now and have caught 3: 9+ pounders, but have yet to top the 10 pound again.

I was 24, I'm 29 now. 

 

It was the day after Thanksgiving, just warm enough that it wouldn't snow and their was a constant drizzle all day. 

 

To this day it is the best day of fishing I've ever had. The fish were stacked up tight. In one hour I had caught probably 40-50 bass. I'd been catching them on a jerkbait, an finally things started to slow down. So I decided to down size my jerkbait to see if anything else would hit. 

 

Literally my first throw with that smaller jerkbait, I landed my personal best. Went 7.07lbs.

 

I've landed several 5lbs, several 6lbs, but I still can't manage to hit that 7lb since then. 

55 when I caught my PB Largemouth Bass 5.26 pounds. Broke my last PB caught over a decade earlier.

 

 

PB Smallmouth of 4 pounds in my avatar was caught when I was 53

 

49. Two years ago on the 4th of July. I didn't really start fishing until my early 40s after being introduced to it by my father-in-law on a retention pond outside of our old townhome.

 

I didn't have a scale with me, but this fat girl was 21" long, and caught in the retention pound across the street from that same FiL's home.

On 8/2/2021 at 2:26 PM, king fisher said:

 

That looks (IMHO) well over 10-3.