My PB LM 5-4 came on a Pad Crasher, early October (not exactly frog weather for Michigan) windy and rainy. That was a great day where I caught 5 or 6 bass and none were under 2-8, all on the frog. 
 

 

 Netbait B Bug - 7lb 6oz LM.

Stick worm

 

1.  Bandit 1.5 chartruse with blue back square bill

2.  Senko

BPS Stick - O 5 & 3/8" Black/Blue

The biggest, 7 lb 5 oz, was caught on a Booyah white/chartreuse spinnerbait with willowleaf and Indiana blades.  Second biggest was 6 lb 15 oz on a 6 inch T-rigged black culprit worm.  

 

Over the last 15 years, I have caught most of my 6 to 6 lb 14 oz fish on black/blue and green pumpkin Siebert jigs using similarly colored Ragetail craws, and other trailers.  A few in that 6 lb range have been caught on Brush Hogs, Rat-L Traps, and soft baits on swinging jig heads.  

 

These are the baits that have worked for me in my neck of the woods.  Any bait can catch a big fish when properly matched to the conditions.  If the OP is seeking higher percentage big fish baits, the jig and craw would be my first choice where the average big fish are 5 to 7 lbs.

Got my PB last year on a "Storm WildEye Live Walleye", a lure I had decided was awful and I don't recall what made me tie it on that morning.

White spinnerbait with double white willows. 

10" Powerworm. (Weight 11.35lbs.)

Uncle josh pork snuggling my custom skirted jig.

WI Largemouth a sandpiper ISG dream tube on a slider spider head 4 years ago and last fall my PB smallie was on a 1/4 ounce double willow purple Shad War Eagle spinnerbait. Before that my PB was on a Ned with a big bite drop shot worm, so a huge sunfish;)
 

What I believe to be my biggest largemouth was in Florida 34 ish years ago in my teens was on a 2” yellow grub. No idea how big it was but I do remember it put up quite a fight. 

Black n blue 5inch senko. Fished wacky style! 

My largest two were both caught on spinnerbaits.

On 4/24/2022 at 11:25 PM, Cgolf said:

WI Largemouth a sandpiper ISG dream tube on a slider spider head 4 years ago and last fall my PB smallie was on a 1/4 ounce double willow purple Shad War Eagle spinnerbait. Before that my PB was on a Ned with a big bite drop shot worm, so a huge sunfish;)
 

What I believe to be my biggest largemouth was in Florida 34 ish years ago in my teens was on a 2” yellow grub. No idea how big it was but I do remember it put up quite a fight. 

Those ISG tubes are superb.  I'll be going back to them when I run out of my stock of SK bleeding tubes I picked up on clearance.

10.9 caught on the s-waver 168 in light trout. 

My top 3 that I can remember: 

8lbs 2oz- 3.25 rage swimmer pearl flash on 1/4 jig head

7lbs 8oz- strike king tour grade swim jig bluegill 3/8 with green pumpkin rage craw

7lbs 3oz- ri skinny dipper purple smoke owner underspin

Lmb of course

I caught my PB on a War Eagle gold shiner spinnerbait. I've caught bass over 7 lbs. on a Chug Bug, jig, Spot, Johnson Silver Minnow and Whopper Plopper. I also caught the bass in my profile pic on the War Eagle spinnerbait.

My personal best came this AC Mag Shad on an extremely windy day…

PB came from a Chartreuse / White Booyah Spinner Bait ( 1/4 oz. Willow / Colorado tandem blades) : Normally I'd be throwing a 3/8th oz. model on a bait caster but that day I used the above spinnerbait on a spinning rod set up  in a small lake cove blind casting across spawning beds I knew were there. That's  when "Juanita" decided she wasn't up for critters being reeled through her living room and pounced . I thought I hung a log as average bass size for this small body of water was only 1 ~ 2 lbs. 

Biggest LM was 8lber on 3/8 spinnerbait with single large colorado blade off shallow stump

 

Biggest SM was 6.2lber on a green pumpkin blue tail (Blue Craw) tube skipped under a dock just before sunset.

6th Sense Cloud Nine Mini Mag Square bill.

Largemouth is on a 6th Sense Divine Hybrid 3/8oz jig in PB & Smoke

 

Smallmouth is a tie, I caught a pair of fish weighing the same amount, one was on a Rebel Pop-R in Sexy Shad, the other was on a Dirty Jigs 1/2oz Super Matt Brown Skirted Tour Level Football jig.

Largemouth: Red Eye Shad in Bluegill

 

Smallmouth: Senko in Baby Bass

10 1/4 pound Largemouth on a Devils Horse.  (topwater propeller bait).   

 

 

I need to add my PB smallmouth, and a story about taking a kid fishing.  I took a 14 year old son of one of my friends fishing.  We were at Lake James (NC) fishing on James' bottoms during spawning season.  The water was clear so we could see the fish.  I had the kid throw his texas rigged lizard toward a HUGE small mouth.  I was watching her pick up the lizard by it's tail (not near the hook) and move it away.  I grabbed hold of the kid to keep him from trying to set the hook.  He cast there again, same thing.  The 3rd time he cast there she engulfed it.  He fought her for what seems like an hour, finally getting her in the boat.  She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and it on his wall.  That was ~35 years ago.  He's an avid bass fisherman now and has been since then.  

 

I caught my PB small mouth that same day, the same way.  She weighed 5 1/2 pounds on my old mechanical scale.  I released her.   

 

Experiences like I had that day are why my signature is "take a kid fishing".