This is my lone bass of the day, I was going to see how much it weighed but the battery was dead on my scale. I’m thinking between 3 and 4 pounds? What do you think?

Comparing the width of your fingernail to the eye and pectoral fin length, I'd say 2.77 lbs. 😂 MWAG

That's the heftiest dink I ever saw! I'm not buying the battery was dead! Dead on purpose! Ha!

I'm looking at the size of the mouth compared to the hand. Not a very big mouth.

It will be closing in on 7 pounds on Monday when he goes back to work and tells his buddies about it! lol! It was huge! A giant!

No seriously, good catchin'! At least you are catchin' them! Some of our members are so desperate to fish they are out in the snow in their front yards casting in the snow!

Thanks for posting! And I'm with Green Pig, I'm not so sure that one would pass 3.

What did you catch it on? Post the catch details please.

Batteries die all the time.

OP

Looks like you’re close on your estimate but I’d say closer to a 3 than 4. A close up like that kinda skews the picture.

Her belly and mouth are key

Nice catch

Mike

I’m going to say this first, I have large hands and find it hard to find gloves that fit. 😳 second, I did have to crop the pix to make it fit the “max total size”🤪 third I was using a white chatter bait with an white rage tail for a trailer. He was the biggest bass I have caught on the lake I fish. The coolest part of the day though was I saw I Bald Eagle flying overhead. Now I need to get a battery for my scale 🥴

I created a thread where I observed that a four-pounder will have a jutting jaw when lipped and gripped. Yours doesn't. By jutting jaw, I mean this with the four-pounder looking like Dudley Do-Right:

Four pounds of weight distends the jaws of bass. There might be exceptions, of course, but I catch a lot of four-pounders and a LOT of three-pounders and four-pounders jut. The threes don't.

FWIW, your one bass is WAY ahead of what I've caught in 2026.

I was just going to say the same thing, your one bass is more than I have this year.

Crap, I haven't even been out this year,,,,,,,,,,,yet.