I’m still a small fry in terms of my rookie numbers, but my PB is still in the 4# area and it was caught on a freakin Whopper Plopper of all things. This was last year too. My wife had bought me an Abu Revo ALF for our anniversary(garbage reel, but that’s another story) so I slapped it on a spare rod I had and tied on the bone colored WP and about five casts in and maybe five feet off the bank on the retrieve, the bass bombed it.

 

How about you guys?

6" Mann's Jelly Worm. Grape.

 

Tom

8" Gene Larew hooktail worm in tomato red.  I used to go through a bag of those worms a weekend as a kid.

6" Mann's Jelly Worm. Black

Black jig n pig .  pork . Caught it from Mississippi river backwaters that was protected by a levee . Lots of big bass in those places .

Bubba shottin’ a strike king caffeine shad.

Rat-L-Trap ?

A 3.5" Z-Man Grubz on a 1/16 oz mushroom head. The color was bloodworm but I had them in a bag with motor oil Grubz. So the motor oil bled onto the bait and created this motor oil with green, blue, and red flake.

River2Sea Whopper Plopper 75, summer 4 years ago.

7” Culprit Fax Max ribbon tail 

 

 

 

 

Mike

One of my favorite spinnerbaits I've used, but I'm biased of course - Nichols Pulsator single colorado 3/8oz in silver flash color. This fish sent me down the rabbit hole of fishing spinnerbaits.

 

26 minutes ago, Catt said:

Rat-L-Trap ?

X2

Same for me twice.

3/8oz green pumpkin chatterbait, 5.8lbs. The swagger jig I believe, used to be made by Buddha Baits but not any more. Shame too, they were some of my favorites

Spro Rat 40 in Morning Dawn

My top 3 LMB from NY state:

7-2 10" Powerworm

7-1 4" Flick Shake worm

6-14 Jig/Rage Chunk

Home made 1/2 ounce green pumpkin bladed jig. The same bait and same lake for both largemouth and smallmouth.

A half a bluegill on a Carolina rig while fishing for blue cats

T-rigged black/blue fleck 4" Senko, but that's a fluke. Most of the 7+ lb fish I catch come on Jigs, Spinnerbaits or really large versions of other varying baits, Striper/Musky JBs has been the one so far this pre spawn.

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T-rigged black/blue fleck 4" Senko

Yup I don't think I ever would have guessed that

6th Sense Clout 5.4 in ‘Watermelon Candy’ rigged weightless on a 3/0 EWG. This got me my 4.54 PB LMB. My PB SMB (3.92) was caught on a 5” Senko in ‘Green Pumpkin/Black Flake’, also on a 3/0 EWG and rigged weightless.

Case helgrammite, black, Texposed on a EWG hook with an unpegged 1/16 Oz worm weight.  I wish I could find that picture and the citation.  It got lost 4 moves ago and I keep hoping I'm going to open a box and find it.  No luck yet, but I did find my armadillo mounted upside down holding a beer bottle this last move   You would think I would keep my prized possessions my wife doesn't appreciate together.

6lb 10oz on a Cotton Cordell Big O 

Oddly for me, it was a weird event. I casted a blue and black small sqaure bill and caught a small crappie with it, and while I was reeling in the crappie, a 5.5+ largemouth ate the crappie. So I counted it as a legit catch. 

Slug-Go, rainbow trout color. Medium-light spinning rod with 10lb test Trilene XL. 

 

Small, private ~3 acre pond in Northeast Missouri. 

LM 6-10 Black and blue jig and craw.

SM 6-4 Green pumpkin chatterbait.