Since everyone is postin pictures around here, I thought I would post a pic of my personal best. Caught in April, 2007 in a public lake on a texas rigged baby brush hog. She was 9 lbs. 11 oz.

now thats a monster inmy books

Nice fish. HUGE head.

Other than for the awful baseball cap the pic is great.

What a lunker!

I bet you had a good time reeling her in.

Now, change that baseball cap to LSU and you will be a real winner!

So close to that 10lb. mark!  Nice, solid fish.

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toad!!! great job man.  was that taken in front of lloyd auditorium or was it one of the dorms?  i can tell it's somewhere on campus but i can't tell where.  awesome pic and fish.  

Thats a hog man.

Nice fish. That 9 lber eluded me in 2007, unless I get her in the next 4 days.

Awesome fish man! 8-)

Thanks guys. Thats out in front of Benson dorm, Hawg Caller. I had to bring her back to the science center at school to get her weighed. I caught it at a state park lake, and the ranger station didn't have a scale. What a buncha dummies! Anyway, she now hangs on the wall. I turned loose many 7 lbers stating that if I ever caught a larger one, I would mount it. So I guess that's my justification. If I ever catch a bigger one, Ill definitely pic and release!

Excellent job

Got a pic of the mount?

That's a beauty!

8-)

I have a picture of the mount, which I will post later. It looks pretty sweet (and huge) on the wall!

Wow just by the photograph and the way you're holding her, you can see she has some weight on her! Sweet fish.

Yao dawg,

dat dere some sick lookey fish.

Now how about some details.

Inquiring minds need to know.  

Well, its a funny story how I caught her. I had heard a lot of stories of big bass being caught in this public lake about 15 miles from school, but didn't really know anything about it until one of my friends came back with a picture of one he caught. The fish looked to be 12 or 13 pounds, and I just about started drooling right there. So the whole next week after class, I would go every day to try and find another lunker like his, since he released it (he's not very into fishing). Well, after so many days of catching small ones, I decided one afternoon to hit up the bream beds on that lake with a friend of mine to see if we could catch dinner. We carried a big ole cooler and were gonna fill it up with bream. It was a little overcast...and the bream were NOT biting. I had brought all UL outfits for the bream, but had my baitcaster just in case. I texas rigged up a green pumpkin baby brush hog and casted it out over the edge of a sandbar I could see. I felt a slight bump, raised the rod tip, felt pressure, and laid into her. I knew it was a good fish when I set the hook. She immediately began stripping off my 10-lb test P-Line, and I luckily had the ole caster set to the perfect drag I suppose. I saw her come up and swirl, saw a white belly, thought it was a drum. She made a couple more runs hard, stripping out drag, and then ran straight at me. I was reeling FRANTICALLY, worried I would lose the fish just like I had seen happy so many times when fish run straight at you. She practically beached her self right in front of me, and I could hardly believe my eyes. I was like a 5 year old on Christmas morning. I hollered at my buddy to grab the cooler and COME ON. We were on a trail on the other side of the lake, and I had to run back around the entire lake carrying that lunker to get to the cooler. There were some local crappie fisherman at the dock who kindly offered to eat it for me if I didn't want it...I declined, of course, and promptly filled the cooler with water, put the bass in, put it in my car, and took off. I had to bring it back to school to weigh it, because no one had a scale, and we weighed it on the Biology departments scales. It was the best catch of my life, and I am thrilled to have such a bass on my wall!

I have some more pics to post, but they are too large. Any ideas?

wow, awsome fish, and cool story  

I have some more pics to post, but they are too large. Any ideas?

2 things to try.  if you or a buddy has photo editing software, it should be pretty easy to resize.  if not just open up a photobucket account.  it's a free image hosting site and you can resize 'em on there.  you can even put your own album on there and and share it with us so we can be jealous of even more of your fish.

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good luck.

Congrats!!!!

nice fatty.  

just a beautiful fish!