1 hour ago, crypt said:

Culprit Fat max worm, 8lbs. Headwaters lake.

Got my PB on that thing not too far from there, at the Stick. 

Love those things 

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Mike

Biggest bass (smallmouth), KVD Dream Shot.

Biggest fish (pike), Chatterbait

Mann's baby one minus crankbait.

PB largemouth @ 7lb on a Rage Craw, don't recall the color. Took 20 years to hit 7 lbs.

 

Can't figure out taking a picture one handed with my phone while sitting in the canoe, all I get is about 3/4 of the fish.

7 lbs 15 oz - July 30th - 1/2oz flipping rig w/ZCraw Jr

(I weighed it a couple extra times just in case it hit 8-0, not meant to be ?)

 

I didn't catch any noteworthy smallmouth or spotted bass this year .  Biggest SM was like 3lbs and I might not have even cracked 2.5 lbs for spotted bass.  Had a different schedule this year so more just a factor of where I fished the most.

Luck E strike suspending Jerkbait in bone on Philpott lake. 

1 hour ago, padlin said:

PB largemouth @ 7lb on a Rage Craw, don't recall the color. Took 20 years to hit 7 lbs.

 

Can't figure out taking a picture one handed with my phone while sitting in the canoe, all I get is about 3/4 of the fish.

Do you have a smart phone? Most of them have a timer on the camera. Set it to 10 seconds and lean it up against something, here’s a catfish canoe selfie

 

Biggest river smallie, 20” on a Big Bite green pumpkin purple 3.5” Smallie Smasher on a Ned Head and Lake Smallie was a 21” on a 1/4 oz War Eagle smoke red spinnerbait. Caught pike bigger than these, but relative to big pike I have caught, they were rather pedestrian. 

13 hours ago, scaleface said:

A lot of spinnerbaits mentioned. I keep hearing how nobody fishes them anymore .

Keep hearing that too but it seems like everyone I know uses them

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you have a smart phone? Most of them have a timer on the camera. Set it to 10 seconds and lean it up against something, here’s a catfish canoe selfie

 

I know about the timer and will start doing that with the new boat. Couldn't get far enough away in the kayak.

These quick picks don't do a fish justice.

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you have a smart phone? Most of them have a timer on the camera. Set it to 10 seconds and lean it up against something, here’s a catfish canoe selfie

Since I had the tablet mounted on the middle seat of my old canoe, I could set the self timer on that and get a shot.

This is the full-size of my avatar pic - taken in the canoe with the tablet...this one is my 2020 'best of the year'.

4 minutes ago, Bird said:

I know about the timer and will start doing that with the new boat. Couldn't get far enough away in the kayak.

These quick picks don't do a fish justice.

Yea you would about have to hold it between your toes in a yak haha

Only 5 outings this year as a back seater managed 6.4 lb LMB on a 5” Senko.

Tom

4 minutes ago, WRB said:

Only 5 outings this year as a back seater managed 6.4 lb LMB on a 5” Senko.

Tom

That’s excellent for 5 trips! 

Shad Rap..it was actually my first fish of 2021. Should've just stopped after that..lol

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you have a smart phone? Most of them have a timer on the camera. Set it to 10 seconds and lean it up against something, here’s a catfish canoe selfie

 

 

 

Thanks, didn't know that. This was about the best I could do in the past...

 

3 minutes ago, padlin said:

 

Thanks, didn't know that. This was about the best I could do in the past...

 

Nice fish and beautiful canoe 

Best LM and SM both came on a T rigged Sweet Craw. 6# LM  SM was a couple crawdads shy of 4#. It also produced a 5lb 4oz LM and several 4+.

 

Caught my biggest channel cat of the year on it too. 11#+

And biggest flathead. 13# + Had a couple WAY bigger than this one kick my butt and wrap me up in the timber.

And musky. 46" Also had a saugeye 30"+ come off at boat side on it. That was a heartbreaker. That bait flat out gets bit. It's the 3.5" version. Good for both numbers and size. Best year ever, and the Sweet Craw put a big percentage of my fish in the boat.

Holy Smokes, I just realized,

this thread is from last year !

A-Jay

4 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Holy Smokes, I just realized,

this thread is from last year !

A-Jay

Hah, good one.

16 hours ago, scaleface said:

A lot of spinnerbaits mentioned. I keep hearing how nobody fishes them anymore .

Yeah. IMO the spinnerbait has never gone out of style. I feel like it's just a forced/false talking point for various fishing industry mediums to fill time & content with.

 

2021 PB Smallie - Dragging a 3" tube on a goby tube jighead in Late Oct. 

2021 PB Largie - Sight fishing a stubborn largie in September. That fish finally slipped up on a neko rigged Gajo ned stick. 

8 hours ago, ike8120 said:

Tail weighted french fry

Hmm.  Salted or unsalted?

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you have a smart phone? Most of them have a timer on the camera. Set it to 10 seconds and lean it up against something, here’s a catfish canoe selfie

 

I’ve mounted cheap phone holders on each of my yaks. Walmart sells one that fits into an auto’s CD slot.  It is ideal.  The large base allows you to clamp it or permanently screw it.  

biggest of the year for me was a 4.8 lb largie flipping a 1/2oz texas rigged “magic craw swirl” sweet beaver in the grass during an ABA tournament on candlewood lake

7.2 on a 1/4 oz. chatterbait with RazrShadz trailer.