Eleventeen pounds 3 ounces

Species is questionable, could be a bread sack.

I just looked at the pic again. Anyone else see the chupacabra? I must’ve missed it first time. It’s over the left shoulder in the pic.

Lol...... comments.

5.5 would be very close and in this neck of the woods, a VERY nice bass. 

How to turn a 1 lber into a 3 lber

@Harold H: When I fished in Canada, I'd position my elbow just like you did in your first photo so that the fish would be right beside my face to give a viewer a good idea of relative size. Doing so means that my big smallies look small compared to long-armed smallies, even though I caught some smallies between five and six pounds according to the length to weight charts and they were footballs, like the one below:

 

That's how you do it!