Biggest bass to date…15.10 at Ivey.  Dude really has mastered the forward FA facing sonar.

 

 

That’s a mutant, shees Louise 

Giant !

She hasn't missed too many meal opportunities.

Congrats to JJ ~ again

A-Jay

 

Saw that on IG.  A beast!!!

Nice photo, good looking giant.

Tom

Not bad....for a Crappie fisherman. LOL!!!!

Big one one for sure

Randy B is going to have an aneurysm...

4 hours ago, Deleted account said:

Randy B is going to have an aneurysm...

Ha was just gonna say Blaukat would say it doesn't count because its cheating. You can keep the pic just put an asterisk next to it.

Wow! How much did it weigh?

1 hour ago, islandbass said:

Wow! How much did it weigh?

15 and change

Remarkable to have two over 15lbs in the same year in the same state from public waters.  

 Toad!

 

Sixth sense oughta sponsor him, if they haven’t already... Just about every Divine swim jig sold out after he caught this guy on it.   

 

This is from his FB page

 

With all of that, I’m going to leave you all with my last 12 months Bass stats, minus 4 or so months I took off for deer and crappie tournaments. I can’t thank you all enough and the year 2022 is going to be my best one yet, God Willing. 2022 I’m taking no time off, carrying the cameras with me everywhere I go, and have some road trips planned on the west coast to target the World Record Largemouth, but I’m not going to kid myself, I’ll be happy with all the DD’s I can get my hands on .

******The last 12 months….******

My largest 5 bass totaled 68.78 pounds.

15.40

15.10

13.20

12.88

12.20

I boated somewhere over 150 bass, over 8 pounds.

27 Double digit bass

3 smallmouth over 6 pounds

3 meanmouth over 7 pounds.

1 hour ago, jbsoonerfan said:

This is from his FB page

 

My largest 5 bass totaled 68.78 pounds.

 

That's just a bit under twice my 2021 top five bag. What an incredible year and an absolutely gorgeous fish. Hats off to him.

All that…….. And three smallies over 6? Helluva year all around, I would retire!!!

7 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

15 and change

Right in! That was my varsity number, lol. 

I haven’t caught what my bench mark 15 lb is for giant bass since 2010. Long long dry spell for me. If I add up the 5 PB’s caught between 1981 to 1994 = 90.3 lbs, best 5 bass limit was 62.2 lbs caught the same day. It’s history that took me a lifetime to achieve. 

Maybe JJ will break the Texas State Record Bass,  something I never could do is break the California State Record Bass.

Tom

6 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

27 Double digit bass

Until now, I was feeling really good about this year. 

26 minutes ago, txchaser said:

Until now, I was feeling really good about this year. 

This was my best year ever with 3 fish over 7lbs, does that help?

Congrats to Josh.

Unfortunately I'm out of the loop and haven't been following him religiously. 

Do we know / think he is totally relying on the forward facing to catch all these beasts?

 

As for the rest of us, rest easy in running your own race. Don't always worry about the other guys like Josh. He's in a position where he's dedicated his life to fishing, and many of us others have non-fishing day jobs, wives, kids, etc. It's still fun to see what he's able to accomplish to let us know 'it can be done' haha

4 minutes ago, ryanerb said:

Do we know / think he is totally relying on the forward facing to catch all these beasts?

 

Yes...

There's a map called Cartel on Call of Duty Cold War that I always dominate on. It's full of bushes and visibility is close to zero. I'm one of very few people who have a gun dedicated for the map when it pops up. I use a flashlight attachment on the gun. In CoD a flashlight attachment puts a red dot above the enemy to help reveal them at a distance. Most people don't use this because it does have its cons (sprint to fire time takes a big hit), but on Cartel, it's more than worth it. While everyone else is running around blind I see people through the bushes because I see the red dot. The flashlight essentially hands me the game. I don't do anything special. I can just see where others can't. 

 

A lot of the time some of the players I dominated on this map turn around a slap me silly on the very next map where all things are equal because their gun skill is better.

46 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 

Yes...

 

I might be wrong and hope you might know the answer, but I think he is literally only using A-rigs and cranks for off shore bass found with FF sonar.

 

scott

3 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

 

I might be wrong and hope you might know the answer, but I think he is literally only using A-rigs and cranks for off shore bass found with FF sonar.

 

scott

 

Not quite. Does throw A-rigs (winter) and deep cranks (summer), but also really likes big flutter spoons and swim jigs, esp. swim jigs right now. This is for the giant bass. He says he has tried about everything, but those 4 seem to get the most use in rotation at present. Can use several other baits if you are just chasing "normal" smaller fish.