Well kinda. My personal record for smallest largemouth bass caught on a #9 silver/black back Shadrap. I was working a dropoff (from 8' drops to 15') in a small lake in Sarasota, Fl and thought I hung some moss. The fish actually had one hook off the back treble in it's mouth. The lure was bigger than it!

I edited the header of this message on 06/30/07. The title was Record Largemouth Caught in Florida, but out of respect to some requests I changed the title.

You got me.  I was pumped when I saw the subject line.  That little fish has pretty colors though.

I wonder what a small fish like that is doing in water 8'-15' deep?

Pretty liitle guy!

LOL thats a monster...kind of brings up a bad memory of what I saw another fisherman at a local lake doing once. This guy caught a tiny bass about that size on a tiny spinnerbait. Then he proceded to toss the fish out of bait. This realy did annoy me. I could care less about people useing live bait but that annoyed me he was useing a bass for live bait.

anyway that bass must have been hungry

I kid around more than most.

But i draw the line at record bass

This is waaaaaay to serious to joke about.

sorry to be such a drag.

I'm with Avid.  Now you have to swallow it.  

Man, I feel like a sucker now for looking! :-/

J/K  

Didn't mean to offend anyone. Just hoping to get some laughs for everyone! I changed the title today as stated in my original post.

Didn't mean to offend anyone. Just hoping to get some laughs for everyone! I changed the title today as stated in my original post.

No offense here.

BTW, did you have it mounted?

Is1jay, I'm a catch n release guy since '83 so I let er go so you can come over to Sarasota and catch her again! Be sure to bring your flippin stick cause she's strong!  

Is1jay, I'm a catch n release guy since '83 so I let er go so you can come over to Sarasota and catch her again! Be sure to bring your flippin stick cause she's strong!  

Ok, I'll be over in about 5 yrs! I want to give her some time to grow up! ;D

Is1jay, I'm a catch n release guy since '83 so I let er go so you can come over to Sarasota and catch her again! Be sure to bring your flippin stick cause she's strong!  

One more thing... I thought all they had down in Sarasota was Large Mouth Snook?  

No big lakes in Sarasota, mostly man made ones like the one here. The lake I caught this one on is pretty small, electric only. Caught some decent fish in it and has lots of timber (7 pounds biggest). Lake Myakka is in the state park, but water is too low right now.

Used to fish a lot of club tournaments where we'd go east to Big O, Kissimmee, Walk in water, June, Placid, Arbuckle, Toho, Harris, etc. My favorite is Walk in Water and I still venture there every couple of months or so. Gas prices is effecting my ability to travel as much and I miss it. Maybe with my new job with a little more moola will allow me to make some more trips.

My biggest is 10 1/2 out of Lake Kissimmee a few years ago and got it in a tournament out of Camp Mack. We got 2nd with 29 pounds, 1st had 33. I wish I got one like the one you have in your picture! Take care.  

Man, i wouldnt have changed my subject title, i thought it was funny it got me going, if guys dont have a sense of humor they need to lighten up a little bit

Thanks S_Self88, I thought it would be funny, but outta respect I changed the title. Different strokes for different folks.

I would not have changed the title because it could have been correct: however? Touring Pro Mark Richards of Texas latched onto this one while fishing with me at the Marsh.

Of course it didn't have the excitement level of this one:

dude thats a good pic         if somebody dont like the title  let em go   elsewhere    

Heck, you guys made me go and find these pics from a few years back!

From the way he fought... I could have swore he was at least 9 inches! ;D

Here's a Florida Smallmouth!