Your biggest bass, what rod/reel did you catch on?

 

Mine came on a $39 Walmart Abu Garcia Black max combo that is now 10-12 years old. Definitely places it as having a special place in my heart!! 

A Lew’s Tournament Pro Speed Spool on a 7’3” Fenwick Methods 

St Croix Pro Bass "Spinnerbait Sweeper" rod and a Daiwa SV TWS 

Chatterbait and a Swimming Fluke trailer

A spinning rod 

 

Fenwick Techna 7’0 Medium, Fast

Pflueger President XT 

Power pro 20lb —-> Invisx 10lb 4lb drag

3/8oz Nichols Pulsator, 10ft deep over grass

 

Literally just using what I had on hand

Mine was with a BPS 6ft. Med (I forget the model) paired with a TD Advantage and good ole 12lb Original Stren. That was my topwater combo for years. It and a Spook put a lot of fish in my boat.

Thats very funny question, I am sure most of us here got our PB on cheapest combo. 

I got mine on this Daiwa D-Wave with 8lb test cheap nylon and since I had no drop-shot weight I just comprmise and bite done split weight at the end of my line :), The only right thing there was my brand new red daiichii #4 hook, Everything else was shaky and I cought my two 8lb bass with that day.

Old All Star 7' Medium Fast cranking stick with a Abu Revo SX 7.1:1 gen3

NRX+ 822 SY2 spinning / Daiwa Airity

 

Megabass spark shad  3” 

 

7.76 LM 

Black Jitterbug fished on a 6'6" heavy Daiwa Procaster rod paired with an Abu 5600 C3.

A Mitchell Avocet, 6ft medium (Walmart special, $39.98) with a BPS  7 1/2  ribbon tail, watermelon/ pearl-garlic. 
Broke my PB twice that day. I had been at a 5lb for a long time, then I caught one over 6lb, 20 minutes later I got one just over 7lb. 
I didn’t need the boat to home, I felt like I could have walk on water all the way home, man was I pumped. 

Largemouth pb was on a loomis imx swim bait rod 7.5’ 1-3 oz paired with a curado 200 & 17lb suffix advance. Smallmouth was on a St Croix legend tournament 7’ mhm spinning rod paired with a Certate 2500 & 10lb braid with a mono leader. 

Shimano Crucial 6'10" Medium Heavy X-Fast 

Shimano Calcutta 100A 

Berkley Big Game 15#

Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap 1/2 oz

 

200 b5-- g loomis  'spinnerbait special'

7'6 Medium Heavy Fast Abu Garcia Veritas PLX with 15 lb red label (one of the last fish I caught with fluorocarbon!) and a 8:3:1 Daiwa Fuego with a pegged 3/8 oz Siebert tungsten flipping weight and a 4/0 Owner worm hook and a 10" power worm in motor oil red flake.

The reel is an Abu 4600c with the red thumb bar. Thats all I used . The rod was probably a Berkely Lightning rod . 6 foot with pistol grip handle.

A Shakespeare spinning reel on a Cabela’s ML graphite rod. On a nightcrawler on an Eagle Claw snelled hook. 

Berkeley Lightning Rod, old model. ABU 4600C reel, 14lb Stren line.

17 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Berkeley Lightning Rod, old model. ABU 4600C reel, 14lb Stren line.

Probably the exact same thing as mine, even the line.

Largemouth PB (11lb 11oz) came on a G Loomis Escape 6' 9" MH Travel Rod

paired with a Quantum EXO PT 200 Reel and 20 lb Big Game clear mono line.

 

Smallmouth PB (7LB 5oz) came on Quantum KVD 7'4" MH Crankbait rod

paired with a Shimano Calcutta 200D cranking reel and 15lb Tatsu FC line.  

 

A-Jay

6’ M/F Ugly Stik GX2 w/ Shimano Sienna 2500

 

8# Trilene XL

 

Texas rigged Green Pumpkin Senko 

7.5 foot, Medium Heavy Diawa Ardito Travel rod.  Diawa Tatula CT reel.

Star 7.6 Plasma inshore spinning rod with a Shimano Stella 4000 XG reel 

I have 3 8# and I have no clue about the rods but I remember the baits;  1 salt and pepper tandem spinner bait, 2 chartreuse spinner bait, 3 1/2 brown living rubber football jig with a double tail trailer.

I caught my PB (8lbs) on a DC734 with a Zillion SV throwing a Booyah spinnerbait at Lake Ray Robert’s.

 

Have caught quite a few 5-8lb fish in one particular pond with a 6’6” medium Ugly Stik with a 35 size Pflueger President throwing bluegill cutbait for catfish. Idk why but that particular pond doesn’t usually spit out numbers, but it spits out size. 

LM - 25.25x18.75  Poison Adrena 6'11M+ / jdm 20 metanium / 30lb pp 16lb fc 100 

         100mm d-walker on a flashy swimmer

 

SM - 5.5lbs   7' cane pole red wrigglers under a bobber; caught loads of little perch that day and still think the sm actually hit a perch eating my worm.

 

scott