Hey ya’ll,

 

I’m conducting research. Nah not really I just want to see some big fish during this fishing hiatus of mine. But this thread has to have a purpose so what time of day did you catch your PB if you remember? Feel free to share pics, lures used, whatever. We haven’t had a PB thread in a while so I thought why not + it gives y’all a chance to show off.

 

Shoot 

Mid afternoon in August, bluebird skies, 4" culprit worm .

6 minutes ago, Bird said:

Mid afternoon in August, bluebird skies, 4" culprit worm .

So you defied 

1. Cold water period for big bass

2. Bluebird skies = bad fishing

3. Need big lures for big bass 

 

Thats awesome

Mid afternoon, just after ice out, overcast skies on a 1/2 oz homemade spinnerbait with a single Colorado blade.

 

Thought I had a pic on here, but I don't.

Watermelon over white skirt, olive zonker strip tail tied onto the hook, brass #4 blade.

mid afternoon

November 21st

Blue bird skies

3/8oz spinnerbaid, small colorado and large willow

 

Oddly, the week before i broke my old PD with the same conditions and bait. Then went for about 5lbs at the above date and broke that PB. 

April, early morning, humid overcast sky. Mann's Kelly Worm 6" black.

I am going to run out of allotted “likes” very quickly on this thread

4 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I am going to run out of allotted “likes” very quickly on this thread

It happens. . .

 

December 19th

Late in the morning

12 lbs 13 oz

Poe cedar crankbait - medium diver

 

I was within 100 yards of where Bob Crupi caught his 22 lb largemouth. I would have needed another DD to bite the free hook to equal his catch. The pigs that used to swim in that lake were plentiful and utterly ridiculous in size.

Jul 2, 11:20 AM.  Sunny and breezy.  7.6, dragging rocky point with GP magnum Rage Bug on 7/16 oz Biffle Hardhead (swing-jig/wobble head)

2 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Jul 2, 11:20 AM.  Sunny and breezy.  7.6, dragging rocky point with GP magnum Rage Bug on 7/16 oz Biffle Hardhead (swing-jig/wobble head)

I’ve seen that one! ?

early afternoon, October, cold air, cold water.  the most ridiculous giant crank bait.  chartruese.  

 

 

I then bested it by a pound with a 7.2.  orangy-red 5" Senko Wacky, again, early afternoon.  summertime.

 

 

International:  9lb 13oz, Mexico, February around 1:00pm and extremely hot and sunny. 

20ish feet of water on a scrounger head with a zoom super fluke.

 

 

Domestic: 6lb 3oz, NY, mid September at dawn. 42 degree air temp and very foggy. Got her on a 5” wacky senko.

Mid April 2021, 7:00 PM, 72 degree surface temp., cloudy skies, 25 kts. west wind, 25' deep, large standing tree, 6th. Sense Mini Mag Square bill bluegill color, deflected off tree branches, Diawa 7' medium travel rod, Tatula reel with 12lbs Big game line, and my wife thinks I have a poor memory. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, king fisher said:

Mid April 2021, 7:00 PM, 72 degree surface temp., cloudy skies, 25 kts. west wind, 25' deep, large standing tree, 6th. Sense Mini Mag Square bill bluegill color, deflected off tree branches, Diawa 7' medium travel rod, Tatula reel with 12lbs Big game line, and my wife thinks I have a poor memory. 

 

 

Every time I see that fish…. I can’t even. I think you just need to call it a teener regardless of whatever your scale told you (I think you said it called it a little over 10?)

42 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I am going to run out of allotted “likes” very quickly on this thread

Annnnd I’m out ?

My PB LMB came on a 6th Sense Divine Hybrid Jig, PB & Smoke in a 3/8oz size with a Paca Chunk trailer in the Natural Craw color, flipping a weed bed in Louisiana on a bitterly cold late fall morning. 

 

I have 3 PB SMB that all weighed right at the 3lb mark, two were caught on a Dirty Jigs Tournament Level Skirted Jig, 1/2oz with a Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver in Dirty Sanchez, the 3rd was caught on a Rebel Pop-R in Foxy Shad, these were all caught late summer/early fall in the afternoon or evening, towards last light of the day...for my money if hunting PB's, I will almost certainly have a jig of some sort tied on, it is my ultimate confidence bait.

I caught my PB in early April right around noon while fishing Mildred, during steady 20-30mph winds, on a Okuma Reflections 7’H rod, Shimano 100B reel spooled with 65lb Power Pro braid to a 25lb flouro leader (Uni to Uni) slinging a 7” AC Mag Shad. 

9 minutes ago, J._Bricker said:

I caught my PB in early April, steady 20-30mph winds, on a Okuma Reflections 7’H rod, Shimano 100B reel spooled with 65lb Power Pro braid to a 25lb flouro leader (Uni to Uni) slinging a 7” AC Mag Shad. 

 

Front hook?

Super Bowl Sunday about noon early February on Lake Marion. 
The last couple of cast with a chrome/blue rattle trap. 11-3

2nd DD was the morning a couple days after a hurricane came through central Florida. 
The water was flowing heavily out of Shingle Creek and redirecting when it hit Mackison Island in lake Toho. I was fishing the island side when I heard schoolers bust behind me towards the creek. I was throwing a 3” Bagley top water rear prop bait and threw it at the schoolers. 
Got distracted by commotion back at the island before my bait moved a foot and about ripped the rod out of my hand while looking the other way when it hit. That one was 10-14

18 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Every time I see that fish…. I can’t even. I think you just need to call it a teener regardless of whatever your scale told you (I think you said it called it a little over 10?)

Yes, my scale said 10.3 lbs.  I have a new scale now but unfortunately my unknown lake has been discovered, and the fishing isn't what it used to be.  There are still giant bass there, I lost one a few weeks ago, but I can no longer go there and hook a double digit every time a fish there.  It may be awhile before I get a new PB and weigh it on a quality scale.  At the time, I didn't think it was a big deal. I assumed I could go to the lake and catch a bigger one easily and weigh it on an accurate scale when I got one.  I now know DD don't come so easy, and wish I would have bought a good scale when the Bait Monkey told me to.  I didn't even have any scale when I landed the bass in my Avatar.  It measured 25 3/4 inches.  To be on the safe side, I estimate it at 10-11 pounds.  It was caught mid morning on a spinnerbait.  

2 hours ago, Big Hands said:

 

Front hook?

All of um.

 

* and while I did go into a little bit of detail, and contrary to some opinions it doesn’t take expensive gear to catch a PB and braid to leader does work not to mention time of day and lure type is gonna vary greatly. My previous PB was on a jig…

Just now, J._Bricker said:

All of um

 

Every bass I have caught on 'the plug' was caught on the front hook. I could have removed the rear hook and caught all of those same fish and probably hung up less. 

About 11 AM.  Caught her off a stump on a deep diving crank in  4' of water.

June 25th 9:12, T-rigged SK Ocho stick worm. Pulled it over some lilies and let it drop off the deep edge. BAM! I have another 8 lb. caught a few years ago about 10:00 AM in a shallow flat in full sunlight, July on a War Eagle spinnerbait in gold shiner pattern. Not really sure which of these is the PB.

 

My four largest have all come between 11a and 4p. Two in April (1989/1992), one in Dec. (2021) and one in June (2022) - jig-pork frog, Bomber Fat A, blade bait, Ned respectively. Hard to believe it took 30 years to match my original two big fish - lol.