11.34

7” Fat Max ribbon tail (red shad)

March 6 2018

8:24 am

 

Ain’t she pretty!

 

 

Mike

11 minutes ago, Mike L said:

 

11.34

7” Fat Max ribbon tail (red shad)

March 6 2018

8:24 am

 

Ain’t she pretty!

 

 

Mike

I ain't seen yours before! What an awesome fish, thanks for sharing that pic

19.3 lbs, Lake Castaic, around 9:30 morning , March 3 1993, cloudy light rain. Hair jig w/pork trailer.

Tom

 

 

My top 3 were all early spring bites, late morning through dusk.

 

 April 9th in SW Michigan, 11:30A, 3/4oz swim jig w/ 120mm D walker @ 6.5lb

 February 8th in NE Texas, 3:30P, 1/2oz jackhammer w/ 4" swimmon @ 7lb

 February 12th in NE Texas, 6P, 5/0 flashy swimmer 100mm D Walker @ 9lb

 

scott

 

This goes along with my early morning post. Overcast sky, humid, sticky early morning. Started very early with a buzzbait, with no takers. Came back to this area 30min later with the black Mann's worm.                        First cast to a big blowdown when this fish hit.           The only fish I ever mounted. 8lbs 9 oz. I've been trying to beat my PB ever since then. I haven't yet.

26 minutes ago, Mike L said:

 

11.34

7” Fat Max ribbon tail (red shad)

March 6 2018

8:24 am

 

Ain’t she pretty!

 

 

Mike

Yes she's pretty Mike. Beautiful bass!

Largemouth: August 2006 around dusk with a wacky rig skipped under a pontoon.  Unfortunately, that largemouth was deep hooked an it was quite warm out.  I tried for 15 minutes to revive it and when I couldn't, I decided to get a skin mount of it.

 

Smallmouth: May 2019 on a ned rig around 9:30am (prespawn)

LM 6-10, April 2008, Water in the 50's. mid morning, black & blue jig. Steep, chunk rock, main lake point. No pic.

SM 6-4, Sept 2015, Around 11pm on a chatterbait rolled along a patch of pondweed, on an old roadbed, in the main lake basin.

Honerable mention. LM 6-0, Dec 2021, mid morning, 40 degree water, trigged Sweet Craw, pine tree top in 9' at the mouth of a cove. Fish was suspended tight up under a pine bough maybe 2' down. Hit on the initial fall.

 

 

My best was a 6lb. 6 oz. largemouth caught about 3 PM January 8, 2022 on a Wacky Senko.

First light ?

 

Feburary cold cloudy misty morning Rat-L-Trap 12 lb 8 oz no pictures.

 

Mid-March 8:30 am cloudy 8" Black Neon worm 11 lbs 3 oz 

 

 

 

Biggest LM was 11-7 3/4 caught on a SK red eye 3/4 ounce lipless around 3 pm in late October. 

Biggest SM was 7-7 3/4 caught on a Smithwick rogue DD around 11 am in early May. 

 

 

Middle of the day, hot July 4th weekend, bluebird skies, 3 FOW over some thick milfoil beds on a rat. Went 6-4 in MA. Not exactly textbook but I'll take it lol.

10:30 AM

12.49 lbs

 

 

 

 

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July 2002 at dusk on a jitterbug. 6lbs. 7oz.

September 22 1993 9:30 pm

53 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

10:30 AM

12.49 lbs

 

 

 

 

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Nice fish

 

Loads of awesome fish being posted, and many defying the so-called "rules" of targeting big bass.

 

My current PB 10lbs 9oz caught at 4:06PM on February 11, 2022. Air temp ~74 degrees, lots of cloud cover and fairly windy. Got her on a suspending jerkbait.

 

-Cloudy early September evening, low and clear water below a spillway where I caught my 4 lb. 10 oz. Smallmouth on a Deps Buzzjet Jr. and 10 lb. Berkley Trilene XT.

 

 

 

 

My Green Bass PB came south of the border. 

While fishing a ¾ ounce SK Redeye Shad (Sexy Shad) right at sunset in front of some bushes on a “nothing” bank.  This fish absolutely Lunched the bait.

She weighed 11lbs 11 ounces was caught on Nov 11th (11-11 2013)

My PB Brown bass smashed a big spinnerbait I was burning across a flat.

Pretty close to sun rise I guess on 12 Sept 2017. 

I thought it was a Big Pike for how hard it was pulling and she never jumped.

After seeing that gut I can understand why. 

I was pretty pumped when I read the scale. 

A-Jay

PB1 and PB2 were an ounce apart.

PB1, around lunchtime, on an inline buzz frog, in early june.

PB2 was about an hour before sunset in March (water around 58 degrees). 

 

Threads like this are how I talk myself out of getting up early.

 

Mine so far this year was just a hair under 8lbs.

 

Caught it right at 11:30AM on a green pumpkin goby colored big TRD rigged with a glued on 1/10oz weight and a 2/0 owner rigging hook.

 

Air temp was 94F, water temp was 90F at the surface (3 inches down).  He was in a patch of lilly pads about 20ft in diameter that was sitting off of a point in full sun...about 4 ft deep.  I did a rainbow cast into about a 1sq.ft opening right dead center of the lilly pads.  Lure hit the bottom, I waited 3-5seconds, and gave it a double twitch.  He nailed it about 2 seconds after.

 

Caught him on 10lb braid on a spinning combo.

 

My absolute PB was 10.25lbs. About 3PM.  Tossed a Texas rigged Zoom Baby Brush Hog in watermelon green up in a group of cypress trees.  Right as I pulled it through the last pair, I felt a really light tap that I almost mistook for a twig or something...then I saw the line move sideways.

 

12 hours 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. 

 

 

 

Trilene big game puts em on the bank!

PB Largemouth a couple hours after dark.  It was a Friday night with a nearly full moon in July 30+ years ago.  10 1/4 pounds according to my old "De-liar" scale.  It was 25 inches long.   No pictures, no digital cameras back then.  Weighed it, measured it and turned it loose.  Caught it on a Devils Horse.   

 

PB Smallmouth was 5 1/2 according to the same scale.   This was ~ 40 years ago middle of the day in April.   Released it.  The 12 year old kid I took with me that day caught one that was 8 pounds.  It's mounted on his wall, and turned him into a lifetime bass fisherman.   Both of these were on Texas rigged lizards.    His picked it up by the tail and moved it from the bed twice before she finally engulfed it.   

My PB green bass came on a cold, windy, rainy mid October day. The weather was miserable but the fishing was the best I’ve experienced quality wise. The wife and I caught six or seven bass in three hours and the smallest went 2-8. My PB was 5-4 on a frog hopping it over dying pads. The bass were so aggressive, if I’d miss I could throw it back as many times as needed to catch them! Something I’ve never experienced again. 
 

My/our SMB PB came during the summer while we were bridge fishing. My son hooked it, couldn’t reel it in so he gave it to my wife. The bass was pulling so hard she got a tad excited and gave the rod to me, so I finished the job. This one came in at 3-8, not the biggest but the story and the fight it put up was pretty memorable. 
 

 

My PB for LM came when I was much younger and didn't mind getting up at 4 AM to get to the lake at sun up. It was at a small pond that fed into a lake on the other side of railroad tracks and casting a purple Creme worm at some lily pads. The bass went 8 lbs. and now hangs on the wall. I quit after I caught it. No sense looking for more and bigger. This was in1973.

Mine was probably right around 9am.

August 8, a little before 6 AM.  I cast out a black jitterbug over a road bed and let it sit for about 20 seconds.  When I finally engaged the reel, the bait turned toward me.  That was all it took.