New to this forum. Did some awesome largemouth bass fishing this summer as well as smallmouth, bluegill, perch, catfish (channel and bullhead), crappie and some pike minnow. Really strayed away from stocker trouts for a couple reasons. But it was a very good summer! Today especially ! I got my personal best largemouth today at just over 8lbs!

Welcome!

Welcome aboard… congrats on your PB

Welcome fellow Oreognian!  Where do you primarily do your fishing around here?  

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~ 

Congrats on the New Personal Best

Do we get a picture ?

A-Jay

Congrats! I always have a better time when I stay away from stocked trout as well 

An 8lb fish if caught in Oregon is very likely a lake record, they don't often get that big out here, would be great to see a picture! 

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Hello and welcome to the forum.

Very irritated with this site right yes. Yes I am on my Phone and yes I have been attempting to make my picture files somehow smaller but nothing meets these very low requirements. And to your lake record thing. I am not sure, it was on a farm pond and I sware I had hooked into an even bigger one the day before, but I guess I will never know. Just got access to fish it and I have a combined time of 2 hours on the pond.

16 minutes ago, OregonBigBass said:

Yes I am on my Phone and yes I have been attempting to make my picture files somehow smaller but nothing meets these very low requirements.

On my Galaxy, I usually have to shrink it to 20% original size...my phone shoots at 3000x4000...so I drop it to 600x800 and that's usually the ticket.

Use postimage.org and then use the link for the image. Bypasses the insanely low requirements of the forum.

No replies or comments? And to answer your question fellow Oregonian I have tons of spots. Some I had to get permission and some was just by doing lots of on foot travel as al my catches are from bank. Elk rock island is a great place to start though. I’ve caught 11 species of fish there including largemouth and smallmouth.

I upload mine to imgbb.com, use the direct links option, paste the link, simple as that. 

Nice bass bluebasser and very clear picture! Anyone feel free to post their bass pics I love seeing them almost as much as I love catching them!

Welcome! It’s good to see fellow Pacific Northwesterners representing our neck of the woods! Nice pics. ???

Hello from the Sunshine State of Fl. 
nice bass

Forgot to ask …. What did you catch it on?

Welcome aboard! And congrats on the PB!

Thanks guys and I was throwing a 5” yum green pumpkin weightless senko but on this particular cast the senko skipped a few times and then as soon as it started to sway this fella hurled itself out of the water completely and destroyed it. My heart was racing for a good 30minutes and this was probably my most enjoyable fishing moment ever. Even better than catching giant sturgeon.

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Great fish man. But, I guess I will bite here...

 

what scale you using? (or not using...)

 

-Fish Police

 

I use a program called lit photo to compress my photos, it's an extra step perhaps but it gets the job done, if you enjoy seeing fish eating skipped senko's, this time of year is fantastic for frogs, poppers and walking baits, personally I would rather catch fish on a topwater offering all day than any other technique...gets you fish like this guy 

I used Thanks guys and I was throwing a 5” yum green pumpinseed weightless senko but on this particular cast the senko skipped a few times and then as soon as it started to sway this fella hurled itself out of the water and destroyed it. My heart was racing for a good 30minutes and this was probably my most enjoyable fishing moment ever. Even better than catching giant sturgeon.

 

Shimmy I am using a 50lb rapala digital scale and the length of this fish was just over 24inches and as you vas see the girth

I used to run a "guess the weight" contest of my own pics - first one without the scale, 2nd one with....

 

You'd be amazed how far off the guesses were.  I mean, WAY off.  Like not even in the same city, let alone ball park!  Sometimes over, other times under.  I just depended on the pic.  And these people were trying to win baits and tackle, so they were putting forth their best effort. But it was always a very small % of people would actually guess correctly +/- 4 oz...a very small %.

 

Lesson learned: most people cannot judge the weight of a fish by its pic.  So give the guy a break.