I would like to know what everyone's idea of a lunker bass is. Largemouth, Smallmouth, Alabama/California Spotted bass.I know it will be different in each area so give your location with your weights.. I am in Texas and here are my thoughts: Largemouth 8.00 up, Smallmouth 5.00 up Spotted bass 5.00 up. Let me know how far off base I am.

Eastern NC: 7 lb nice fish - 8 lb big bass - 9lb darn good one - 10lb  a hawg

11lb man you should of seen that fish I had on today. Anything over that I

haven't seen yet.

I caught a 10.4 on Lake Falcon Sept 26 the last practice day for the TABC state championship on a Storm swim bait. I am always a day off.

By my standards 5lber is a good one a 6lb is Big and 7+ awesome

vermont:::: a 7 would be an amazing fish for a lm. Out of exactly 900 bass I have caught this year I have gotten one 6lber , six in the 5+ range and just over forty 4+ bass.  For smallies I would say it would have to be a 6 pounder just because I fish a lake where I catch 20 four pound + smallie a trip.

Lunker= any fish that I lost due to old line, bad knot, lazy hook set.  ;D

5#  =  great fish,  7#  = huge lunker for this area

The Texas standard for LM lunkers is Double Digits, 10lbs.       7,8,9's are sure some toads, but a trophy standard of TX is the 10 pound barrier.  State record is 18.18 lbs.

Texas has a couple of lakes that used to kick out a bunch of smallies, and I would assume that anything above 6 pounds is trophy smallie in Texas.    We have 7.93 lb record.     After looking at the top 50 smallies in Texas, I would consider a 5 pounder a heck of a fish.

Hookem

Matt

Switzerland, a 10 is unheard of. 4-5lbs. are big fish. I got the swiss record with 7.9lbs.

I have seen some fish around 8lbs. but that's as big as they get. These are true northern strain bass.

Here's a pic of a typical big bass around here:

That's a GREAT bass!

8-)

That is one fine bass indeed! Congrats   You should inport some of the Florida strain to your waters! Anyway, here in Massachusetts, USA, I'd say a lunker LM would be 5+ lbs. and smallie anything above 4 lbs.. I've caught bigger bass, but this would be the yardstick here, I believe. Maybe some other Baystaters have a differing viewpoint? BTW....that 5 lbs. LM would probably be 7 or 8 years old!

That is one fine bass indeed! Congrats You should inport some of the Florida strain to your waters! Anyway, here in Massachusetts, USA, I'd say a lunker LM would be 5+ lbs. and smallie anything above 4 lbs.. I've caught bigger bass, but this would be the yardstick here, I believe. Maybe some other Baystaters have a differing viewpoint? BTW....that 5 lbs. LM would probably be 7 or 8 years old!

They would not survive around here. :'(

Water temps drop to the low 30's in winter.

I'd rather have some smallies!!

Here on Lake St. Clair, a 4# LMB or SMB is a pretty good fish. Anything over 5# is a lunker. In 53 years of fishing this lake, my PB LMB is 5# and my PB SMB is 6 lb-15 oz, both considered braggers here.

Falcon

PB SMB is 6 lb-15 oz

What I would give.....

I would have gotten a replica of that one

It really depends on what state. Here, I don't consider a lunker to be anything under 10lbs. 7's, 8's, 9's are nice quality fish, but they're not lunkers in my mind.

That is one fine bass indeed! Congrats You should inport some of the Florida strain to your waters! Anyway, here in Massachusetts, USA, I'd say a lunker LM would be 5+ lbs. and smallie anything above 4 lbs.. I've caught bigger bass, but this would be the yardstick here, I believe. Maybe some other Baystaters have a differing viewpoint? BTW....that 5 lbs. LM would probably be 7 or 8 years old!

I'm also from MA, and I agree. The state record is a little over 15lbs but I can't see that being broken anytime soon, biggest bass I've ever seen was my own 8lber. Along with the 8lber;I've caught quite a few 5's this year, a 6, and a 7.

But yeah, it depends on the area/climate because that changes the growing season and the type of forage the bass have to eat. Around here, the water ices over for about 3-4 months out of the year and the bass become basically dormant, not really growing.

In South Ga., lunker would be 8 plus. As for small mouth, never seen one down here so I guess even a dink would qualify as a lunker. ; ;D

Lunker= any fish that I lost due to old line, bad knot, lazy hook set.  ;D

Classic  ;D

I would say here in NH, anything over 5 is a lunker. My PB was 3.7 until I caught this 5.75-6 pounder (analog scale...hard to tell) a week ago:

6 pounds in a place that has such cold and long winters is pretty good as far as I can tell!

I would say here in NH, anything over 5 is a lunker. My PB was 3.7 until I caught this 5.75-6 pounder (analog scale...hard to tell) a week ago:

6 pounds in a place that has such cold and long winters is pretty good as far as I can tell!

I love bass that look like they just came from some deep grass.    That is one pretty dark bass,  she's a beauty!!!!!!!

Hookem

Matt

For the northern ponds up here in Massachusetts, 4-5 pounds would be a lunker. In lakes, probably a little bit bigger like 6-7 pounds.

LM- 4lbs good 5lbs very nice 6lbs possible trophy AKA lunker 7 submit for a pin, trphy, lunker, anything above that- crap yourself 16lb plus- state record- crap yourself and faint

smallies 3 good 4 hey look what i got today 5+ lunker

spotted bass- none in my area

I would say here in NH, anything over 5 is a lunker. My PB was 3.7 until I caught this 5.75-6 pounder (analog scale...hard to tell) a week ago:

6 pounds in a place that has such cold and long winters is pretty good as far as I can tell!

I love bass that look like they just came from some deep grass. That is one pretty dark bass, she's a beauty!!!!!!!

Hookem

Matt

Thanks!!! I'm very proud of her, and she is still living where I caught her from as far as I know.

Another Massachusetts resident here - I too would call a 5+ a lunker.

Here on Lake St. Clair, a 4# LMB or SMB is a pretty good fish. Anything over 5# is a lunker. In 53 years of fishing this lake, my PB LMB is 5# and my PB SMB is 6 lb-15 oz, both considered braggers here.

Falcon

I agree with this...5 pounder bass is a real good size fish here..anything over is a lunker to many Michigan fishermens.We catch a 5 pounder here and we'll be doing a little dance...